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aid of the Director of Forestry were able to lay 

 and near forest covered lands, and with the 

 before the Government a draft Act. This was 

 temporarily edged out by a mass of other legis- 

 lation. We persisted in our efforts through the 

 press and otherwise and are now informed that 

 at the time of writing this report the Alberta 

 Government has the Act under discussion. If 

 the new Act passes the Alberta Legislature, the 

 three prairie provmces will then have similar 

 measures aimed at lessening forest losses. In 

 each province the Association labored continu- 

 ously to secure these laws. 



A Nova Scotia Enterprise. 

 The Nova Scotia situation called for a great 

 deal of 'spade work' and indeed will yet require 

 much constructive educational effort before the 

 Government is ready to agree with us that a 

 Provincial Forester is an unpostponable neces- 

 sity. In October, following a newspaper cam- 

 paign, the Secretary held eight public meetings 



at Nova Scotia points, reaching large audiences 

 and distributing everywhere the Association's 

 literature on provincial forest problems. Three 

 special publications were issued: "A Partner- 

 ship Offer," "Nova Scotia's Stake in Forest Pro- 

 tection," and "The Case for Nova Scotia's For- 

 ests," and these were circulated carefully. Every 

 Board of Trade in the Province was communi- 

 cated with and many of the more important 

 ones responded heartily, asking the Government 

 to put through the appointment of the Forester 

 and organize fire prevention work on a modern 

 basis. All provincial newspapers and weeklies 

 were covered repeatedly and gave us generous 

 aid. A provincial conference on forest problems 

 was held at Halifax on December 10th, at which 

 forty persons representative of industries and 

 as private citizens were present. A detailed 

 discussion of the serious situation in forest de- 

 pletion now facing the province took place and 

 the Commissioner of Lands, Hon. 0. T. Daniels, 



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