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licensing rather than selling Crown Lands, for such purposes as water-power 

 harnessing, summer resort, hunting lodges, boathouse dock and elevator 

 sites, milling plants, grazing rights for farms, tote roads, telephone and tele- 

 graph lines, market gardening, amusement parks, lumbering depots, booming 

 grounds, trading posts, gasolene stations, aeroplane landing fields and a host 

 of other serviceable purposes. 



The land in each such case is leased or licensed on well-defined terms and 

 conditions, these varying according to the locality involved, the value of the 

 land in question and the purposes, whether private philanthropic or com- 

 mercial, to which it is put. The tenure rarely exceeds a period of twenty-one 

 years, the annual rental being payable in advance. From this source alone 

 and the Provincial Land Tax last year the revenue derived was a half million 

 dollars, and the entire pro rata cost in connection with the administration of 

 the lands proper, which also includes the sale and location of lands for agri- 

 cultural purposes, was less than forty per cent of this ordinary revenue. As 

 time proceeds and a keener demand is made for choice sites for diversified 

 uses the revenue in this respect will necessarily increase. 



Appendix No. 3 indicates that throughout the year approximately ninety 

 thousand acres were actually sold for different purposes, and thirty-two thou- 

 sand acres leased, this being an increase over the preceding year. 



The Crown Land Office at Wilno, for part of Renfrew County and the 

 south part of Nipissing, was closed following the death of the Agent, Frank 

 Blank, and the records and work in connection therewith were transferred to 

 the head office in Toronto. Parry Sound, Mattawa, New Liskeard and North 

 Bay Land offices were closed, the services of the agents discontinued, and the 

 work consolidated with that of the Crown Timber Agent in each case. The 

 office at Magnetawan for a portion of the District of Parry Sound was dis- 

 continued and the services taken over by the Central office. Certain other 

 agencies, such as Espanola in the District of Sudbury, Stratton in Rainy River 

 District and Hilton Beach on St. Joseph Island, are being maintained only 

 on a fee basis, the salaries having been eliminated. Sturgeon Falls office, 

 due to a lessening of the demands, was closed during the year ,while the office 

 at Pembroke was consolidated with that of the Park and Forestry Branch 

 under F. A. MacDougall. The Kinmount office, which had been held as a 

 convenience for a part of Peterborough and Haliburton section at a small 

 expenditure, was discontinued and the limited services it rendered are being 

 performed in Toronto. 



Of the Eighteen Land Agents proper, five are also acting in the capacity 

 of Homestead Inspectors or Crown Timber Agents, while four of our Crown 

 Timber Agents are doing the work of Crown Land Agents as well, and two are 

 in addition Mining Recorders acting under the authority of the Department 

 of Mines. 



All our Agents have realized the need of rigid economy and are co-operat- 

 ing to the fullest extent with headquarters to carry on under reduced votes 

 and at the same time to render efficient service. 



The revenue from Clergy, Grammar School, Common School and Uni- 

 versity lands amounted to but ten per cent of what it was three years ago. 

 Receipts however from these sources, which are but important historic links 

 in the past history of the Province, are steadily diminishing and in a few 



