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1 am sure. I do not say this in a perfunctory way at all. I feel very strongly in the 

 matter, and certainly the press is entitled to our very best thanks for their courtesy. 



Mr. STEWART. Mr. President, I have very great pleasure in moving another vote 

 of thanks, and that is to the railway companies of the country for their very great 

 kindness in granting us what, I think, are exceptional privileges. Shortly after thia 

 Association was formed, I took occasion to go to Montreal and saw some of the lead- 

 ing railway men and told them we were expecting to get a good meeting at Ottawa, 

 and would expect them to do something for us. They asked me what I wanted. I 

 said : You might cut your rates in two. They said all right. I said : I cannot guar- 

 antee you that any certain number will be present. Will you give us free return, 

 irrespective of numbers ? This they did. This year, the Canadian Pacific and the 

 Canadian Northern, both, have not only given us this rate in the Eastern Provinces, 

 but as far west as the Rocky Mountains and the Territories. So I have very great 

 pleasure indeed in moving a vote of thanks to the railway companies of Canada who 

 have favoured us in thia regard. 



Mr. BERTRAM seconded. 

 Motion agreed to. 



Mr. MACOUN. Mr. President, I think we must not separate without thanking the 

 proper official of the Ontario Government for the not only very comfortable, but 

 bright and cheerful, room in which we have had the pleasure of holding our meetings. 

 It is one thing to give us the use of a room, but it is another thing to give us the use 

 of a room like this. 



Mr. BERTRAM. Don't you rather think that virtue is its own reward in that case? 

 (Laughter.) 



Mr. STEWART seconded. 

 Motion agreed to. 



Mr. BERTRAM. I want to propose a vote of thanks to our retiring President. 

 (Hear, hear, and applause.) I do not think that anybody could have more genially 

 and ably and affably filled the chair than has Mr. Hiram Robinson, our President. I 

 am certainly a believer in the offices in. an institution of this kind going around. I 

 do not believe in having the same man year after year, and I think the same with the 

 directors. I would have insisted on going off the Board, owing to the aifficulty in 

 getting down to meetings, but I look forward with pleasure to the meeting next year 

 in Quebec and to see our fellow-lumbermen there. Mr. Robinson has been an excep- 

 tionally affable President, and we have enjoyed ourselves in this meeting largely, I 

 think, on account of his able presidency, and., I would ask you all to join me unani- 

 mously in giving a vote of thanks to our President, Mr. Robinson. 



At this juncture Mr. White, the newly-elected President took the chair. 



Mr. WHITE. Has the resolution been seconded? 



Mr. LITTLE. I have great pleasure in seconding the motion. 



