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than two weeks beginning- about the 

 10th of May. and we, in this section 

 have been among the "hard hit." the 

 whole population having suffered 

 more or less as a result of the great 

 forest fires, and which we have been 

 fighting with determined effort, but 

 by reason of the tinder like condition 

 of the slashings were unable to make 

 much headway in beating back the en- 

 emy. 



Out of the 350,000 people in this 

 Province, there were a few, just a few 

 individuals, who, through carelessness, 

 have caused a destruction of nearly $2,- 

 000,000.00. There is, too, every reason 

 to believe that a few persons have 

 stooped low enough to touch a match 

 to our forests. It does seem to be 

 like a drop in a bucket towards the 

 total eradication of this evil, when it 

 is realized that perhaps less than a 

 dozen persons out of the whole pop- 

 ulation are able to so place themselves 

 on the side of the most destructive 

 enemy-fire. 



$30,000 worth of valuable timber and 

 lands have been destroyed here at 

 Perth, and some one person is guilty, 



for the fire which appears to have 

 been set by a culprit (though not yet 

 apprehended) has covered an area of 

 8,000 acres. 



I had the pleasure of talking to 

 about fifty of the boys and girls 

 in the Perth School on Friday, 

 May 28th, and must say that I 

 never met a more appreciative 

 audience. They seemed to drink 

 down every word, for most of 

 them had just passed through the 

 fire fighting experience in the for- 

 ests here, and were eager listeners 

 for anything touching upon this 

 subject. I am sure that not one 

 of these boys and girls will ever 

 forget the meeting. In conversa- 

 tion with some of the parents af- 

 ter the lecture, I was informed 

 that the children carried news to 

 them which they had never before 

 heard of. One of the boys, age 

 ten years told his father the whole 

 story, and one of the things he 

 became most interested in was 

 the age of a tree and how to find 

 it. Others were more interested 

 in the great destructive fires of 



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