DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FGRESTS FOR 1936 107 



A special calling device was designed and it is hoped that the use of these 

 sets will eliminate the necessity for building long and expensive telephone lines 

 in many cases. 



Revenue 



The total revenue derived from the public use of the radio service for the 

 above-mentioned fiscal year amounted to some $11,000. 



Appendix 23 



IV— PROVINCIAL AIR SERVICE 



General Administration 



The past fiscal year is one in which the Provincial Air Service has done less 

 flying than has been the case in any of the preceding six years. This decrease 

 in the number of flying hours has been due to two causes, — firstly, a year of 

 sub-normal fire hazard throughout the entire Province and secondly, a deter- 

 mined attempt to delete any flying that could not be considered to be of a 

 useful nature. 



Flight reports have been very carefully scrutinized and, although it is felt 

 that the Service has provided nearly all flying that has been required by any 

 and all Departments of Government, it is also felt that this flying has been 

 carried out at a minimum of expense. 



Following a policy which was established during the preceding five-month 

 fiscal period, every effort was made to have as many flights as possible serve a 

 two-fold purpose. In a great many cases, officers of other Departments of 

 Government were carried on flights which were primarily requisitioned by the 

 Forestry Branch and vice versa, and when the expense of these flights was 

 apportioned to the various Departments concerned it meant that nearly all 

 of them have been able to have transportation by air at rates which have been 

 very comparable to other means of transportation when the saving of time 

 thus afforded was taken into consideration. This has been obviously applicable 

 in the Western Division, and particularly so in regions North of the Canadian 

 National Railway, where transportation by other than aircraft is not only 

 very laborious but very slow. 



Provincial Air Services have been extensively used by the Department 

 of Provincial Police; Department of Mines; Department of Health, including 

 Sanitation and Medical Supervision; Liquor Control Board; Attorney General's 

 Department; Department of Northern Development; and any others requiring 

 them, the results being to the mutual advantage of all Departments concerned. 



Provincial Aircraft has been of particular value to the Department of 

 Northern Development in that it has been able to service and move survey 

 parties in very remote locations. Through this means operators are able 

 to work much more effectively, not to mention the saving in time and labor 

 involved were it necessary to break and keep open lines of communication 

 under winter conditions. 



