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it is cut in comparatively early years its quality deteriorates and, as there are 

 but limited markets in Canada for its use, provision is made for its export. 

 In this way wastage is avoided and the young growth encouraged. Wherever 

 the circumstances justify and export privileges are granted, cordage fee of a 

 minimum of 50 cents, in addition to the regular price bid in public competition, 

 is imposed. 



A further amendment to the Crown Timber Act protects the Crown in its 

 priority of claim in respect of lien on timber for dues and Crown charges. 



The ever-pressing importance of the lumber and pulpwood industry and the 

 admitted necessity of providing advanced Legislation were recognized in the 

 Provincial Forests Act passed this year. Under this Act new areas were 

 specifically designated as Provincial Forest Reserves while the older areas 

 hitherto known as Forest Reserves were confirmed. The Act provided for the 

 appointment by Order-in-Council of a special officer who shall have charge, 

 control and management of the established Provincial Forests for the purpose 

 of preserving them according to the best forestry practice and to gradually 

 bring them under a sustained yield basis. 



Mr. Frank Sharpe, F.E., who has been connected with the Department 

 for a number of years in a technical capacity, was under date of 30th April, 1929, 

 duly appointed officer in charge of such Provincial Forests. 



The international interest manifested in the newsprint industry, which 

 has so many ramifications, including the annual consumption and wholesale 

 cutting, rivets attention on all practical proposals to perpetuate if possible, 

 the source of supply. 



With a view therefore to bringing the Department and the various operating 

 companies into closer touch and to effecting a mutual modus operandi in the 

 operation of the forests The Pulpwood Conservation Act was passed on the 

 24th March, 1929, and is now in operation. 



Particulars in full detail are required to be furnished by each individual 

 or company affected and hundreds of licensees, concessionaires and large holders 

 have been circularized. Numbers of returns have been received and the data 

 catalogued by the Department preparatory to placing the information before 

 the Forestry Branch for its attention. All those interested are sympathetically 

 co-operating with the Department, it is believed, in an attempt to sustain the 

 annual yield and provide for a perpetuation of the industry by assuring rotation 

 of crops. Adequate results can be best measured after the Act has been in 

 operation for a period of years, but the response given by the substantial in- 

 vestors in the forest assets is proof of a concerted desire to assist in making 

 decided progress under the Act, declared by accepted authorities to be the 

 most advanced form of pulpwood conservation legislation yet enacted. 



Land Transactions 



The ever recurring question of how best to promote land settlement in 

 pioneer stages and in areas demanding the toilsome effort of removing virgin 

 timber and subsequently tilling the cleared portions is one that admits of a 

 variety of suggestions and involves a problem that is world wide in the attempt 

 to find a solution. When in the older parts of the Province large areas of 

 cleared and arable land, awaiting only the application of individual effort, lie 

 unoccupied and unimproved and no appreciable response has been made to the 

 nation wide urge to get back to the land, it is obviously difficult to secure for and 

 keep upon the land in the newer parts the right type of settler. Although 



