DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1930 9 



such work as water powers, engineering problems and technical inspections should 

 be subject to the supervision and under the control of a special officer to be 

 called, like unto the past, Surveyor-General with the status of a Deputy Minister. 

 Consequently the Public Lands Act was amended in 1926 to provide for such an 

 officer. The Department as now constituted is presided over by a Minister 

 with two Deputy Ministers, the first the Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests, 

 second the Deputy Minister of Forestry, and a Surveyor-General. 



The three divisions or sections of the Department thus organized are 

 subdivided into branches as follows: 



Under Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests 



Lands which is the clearing house for all dispositions of land for location or 

 sale under agricultural regulations and for a variety of other purposes, the issuing 

 of Licenses, Leases and other instruments and the general registration of all 

 areas alienated from the Crown, including such as are granted for mining 

 purposes. 



Woods and Forests. Here all sales of Timber Limits are recorded, timber 

 licenses issued, ground rent and fire protection charges levied and collected, all 

 affidavits and returns in connection with the cutting and measurement of timber 

 scrutinized, and accounts for tim"ber bonus and dues and scaling rendered and 

 accounted for. This branch also is responsible for the holding of scalers' 

 examinations and the issue of Certificates to those qualified, and has charge of 

 Rangers and Scalers in cruising, estimating and measuring timber. 



Accounts. Supervises and accounts for all moneys received and expended by 

 the entire Department and also for such moneys as are so handled by the 

 Department of Mines, this relationship not having been broken when the 

 Department of Mines was created. All cheques for thfe payment of Fire- 

 ranging throughout the summer months are issued direct by this branch, and the 

 daily returns of receipts of moneys are made to the Treasury Department. 



Files. Under the centralized system of filing introduced in 1916 this 

 branch initiates and houses files dealing with the multitudinous matters of the 

 Department. All correspondence is registered daily and immediately attached 

 to the files and then distributed amongst the different branches dealing with 

 the covering subject. The files in due time are returned to the central filing 

 office and always in readiness for a call from any branch responsible for their use. 



Provincial Land Tax. This branch lists all lands subject to the Provincial 

 Land Tax Act, makes assessments and collects the taxes thereunder. 



Statistics. Data of importance concerning the whole Department are 

 detailed by this branch and carefully listed and properly catalogued. The work 

 in this connection has been undertaken only within the last year or so and is 

 still in a formative state, it being carried on in a more or less restricted way by 

 the Secretary of the Department, but a good foundation is being laid upon 

 which a permanent superstructure will ultimately be built. 



Under the Deputy Minister of Forestry 



Forest Fire Protection. This comprises the task of providing against and 

 fighting forest fires, and includes a complete link up system of ground and air 

 patrol and an effective body for suppression. Forest Reserve and Permit areas 

 are set aside and governed by special legislative enactments and regulations. 



Aerial Photography and Mapping and Radio Communications. In making 

 inventory of our timber resources photographs from the air are taken preliminary 



