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The aggregate expenditures of the Department during the last five years 

 are as follows: 



(See Appendix No. 7 of Minister's Report for each year). 



1929 $3,405,615.46 



1930 3,834,684.37 



1931 3,237,319.29 



1932 2,424,452.75 



1933 1,935,639.29 



The reduction during the last year operated largely in Fire Ranging, 

 Reforestation, Forest Ranging and measurement of timber and Agents' salaries, 

 the first two Services accounting for some Four Hundred Thousand Dollars 

 less than last year, and the last two for over Fifty Thousand Dollars. Curtail- 

 ment in fire protection and reforestation activities, reduced timber cutting, 

 and elimination of certain outside office services, and their consolidation with 

 other branches, assist in such reduction. An item of approximately One 

 Hundred Thousand Dollars for Relief Land Settlement, or Back-to-the-Land 

 Movement, is in excess of last year by Nine Thousand Dollars, there being less 

 than Nine Thousand Dollars charged against this Service during 1932, as it 

 became operative towards the end of that fiscal year. It is not anticipated 

 that any increased expenditures for the coming year in the various services 

 will occur, except possibly in the case of Forest Ranging, due to a somewhat 

 enlarged output of pulpwood over last year, and the Back-to-the-Land Move- 

 ment, which will provide for further activities and care for those settlers 

 already participating in the Plan. Of course it is difficult to prognosticate 

 with any degree of accuracy on the weather, which so largely influences the 

 fire hazard, and should emergent bush conflagrations occur additional demands 

 upon the Fire Ranging vote will inevitably follow. 



