DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1928 107 



The entire personnel of the Provincial Air Service gave of their best in 

 every respect whether ground or flying staff and were ever ready at all hours 

 of the day and night to carry out the requirements of the Service. 



The staff at Sault Ste. Marie never failed to keep up with the calls made 

 upon them in maintaining a steady output of engines and equipment necessary 

 for keeping machines in action throughout the whole season and especially 

 during the severe hazard periods. Without their unceasing efforts it would 

 have been well-nigh impossible to have carried on and have produced the results 

 which were achieved. 



Operating Statistics. 



Attached hereto is a statistical summary which indicates the increasing 

 activity in every phase of the Service's work and which shows the important 

 part it is privileged to play in connection with the preservation of Ontario's 

 forest wealth. 



Once again the marked increase in hours flown in connection with opera- 

 tion, administration and inspection was entirely due to the transportation by 

 air of Senior Officers of the Provincial Government, District Foresters and 

 their staff on tours of inspection to the remote parts of the District, which, 

 were it not for the use of aircraft, could not be reached by them in an ordinary 

 course of the summer period. 



