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will be Mr. Stuart Graham, who participated as 

 an airman in the British Government's fight 

 against German submarines. Mr. Graham will 

 have the fullest co-operation of the officials of 

 the Royal Canadian Naval Air Service. Ex- 

 perimental work will be conducted in the use 

 of wireless telephones and telegraphs. It is in- 

 tended also to try out the use of aerial cameras 

 in mapping forests. The possibilities of this 

 work are most promising. 



The flying boat type has been regarded as 

 being most applicable to the conditions accom- 

 panying forest patrol in the province of Quebec 

 where lakes and rivers are almost always within 

 reach as convenient landing stations or in case 

 of accidents. From the point of view of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association, the confidence 

 expressed by returned aviators in the effcacy of 

 aerial patrol of forest areas and the ease of 

 forest mapping called for immemdiate experi- 

 mental trials. No one having to do with the 

 securing of the Dominion-owned machines for 

 use in Central Quebec has the temerity to ad- 

 vocate aerial patrol as a cure-all for forest 

 fires nor anything but a probably useful auxil- 

 iary to present means of fire detection. Re- 

 cently the Government of Ontario requested 

 from the officials of Argyll House, London, an 

 estimate of the cost of a system of aeroplanes 

 for use in the forested districts of Northern 

 Ontario. Instead of mapping out a modest ex- 

 perimental plan, the officials of Argyll House 

 concocted an elaborate and highly expensive 

 scheme whereby the Government of Ontario 

 might easily be called upon to pay out close to 

 one million dollars during the first year. Quite 

 properly the Ontario Department of Lands and 

 Forests rejected the scheme implying thereby no 

 adverse opinion of possible advantages of earial 

 patrol for Ontario. The Quebec experiments 

 will probably determine to a material degree the 

 adoption of aeroplanes by Ontario and other 

 provinces in 1920. 



The United States Government has recently 

 brought about a co-operative plan between the 

 military authorities of the United States Forest 

 Service whereby government machines will be 

 tested in fire detection work during the present 

 year. 



THE EAST AND EXPORT. 



I am strongly of the opinion that Ontario, 

 Quebec and Nova Scotia have not a very large 



Tin- Ilyint; htrnx at Halifax Harhnr. 



quantity of timber that Canada can afford to 

 export. The most of the lumber that is still left 

 in these provinces, in my opinion, will be re- 

 quired for use at home. There is no doubt that 

 a large amount of building will take place 

 during the next few years and these provinces 

 combined will produce very little more than 

 what is required at home. British Columbia, no 

 doubt, has a lot of good lumber and timber and 

 is wanting a market and may be able to export 

 a considerable quantity, but there is at present 

 a large quantity of British Columbia lumber 

 used in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec 

 and the trade in British Columbia and these pro- 

 vinces is increasing monthly. There is not a 

 furniture factory in the provinces of Quebec and 

 Ontario but what are importing large quantities 

 of oak lumber from the United States: also 

 quantities of gum wood are imported. This is 

 all manufactured into furniture. The building 

 trades are importing large quantities of Georgia 

 pine which is used for the construction of 

 buildings; also large quantities of California 

 white pine are imported for the sash and door 

 mills. If we had a largo surplus of lumber in 

 the province of Ontario such as many people 

 speak of, we would not have to import such 

 large quantities as we do. R. E. Truax. M.P. 

 (Walkerton Wholesale Sash & Door Factory, 

 Walkerton. Ont. 



