THE MINISTER'S ANNUAL REPORT 

 To End of Fiscal Year — March 31, 1937 



ORGANIZATION 



The organization structure of the Department consists of, — the Main 

 Office, which includes the Executive Officers, the Lands Branch, the Accounts 

 Branch, the Records Branch, the Provincial Land Tax Branch, the Forestry 

 Branch, the Woods and Forests Branch, each under their respective Chief 

 Clerks, and the Surveys Branch, under the Surveyor-General, all of whom with 

 the various field offices and staffs engaged in the work of administration are 

 under the Chief Executive authority of the Department. 



The activities of these units within the Department for the fiscal period 

 are set forth in the appendices and other information appearing in the body 

 of this report. 



These activities, in one field or another, penetrate into every part to the 

 remotest points in the Province which covers an area of 412,587 square miles 

 and whose boundaries extend from South of 42° to North of 56° North Latitude. 



The field and variety of Departmental activity are therefore very large 

 and affected by a diversity of local topographic and economic features demand- 

 ing intensive administrative care and involving exceptional responsibilities. 



The information herein, because of its volume and variety, is but briefly 

 supported in narrative form but it includes a specific record of the extent and 

 scope of Departmental activity, being confined largely to facts in the briefest 

 comprehensive form. 



STAFF 



Each year in the direction of the administrative organization, death, 

 transfers, resignations, and superannuations involve the allotment of new 

 duties, promotions and other staff changes. 



During the fiscal year which closed on March 31st, 1937, a number of 

 such changes took place. 



Among these, the demise of Alexander McLean, formerly senior clerk in 

 the Accounts Branch, is regretfully noted. In the Department and out of it 

 Mr. McLean will be remembered for his kindly affable nature and his truly 

 British convictions. 



After long and faithful service of forty years in the Department of Lands 

 and Forests, Edmund M. Jarvis was superannuated, as noted in Appendix 

 1 to this report. Though his active connection with the Department is ter- 

 minated, Mr. Jarvis carried with him the felicitations of his associates through- 

 out the Department when he left the Service. 



The staff has been energetic and faithful in meeting the demands of service 

 in these trying times. 



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