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successfully are now working as for 

 est rangers and are making a success 

 of the work. 



Thus even in the first stages of its 

 operation the Civil Service system has 



helped materially the spirit and the 

 personnel of the forest service staff 

 and promises to add permanently 

 to its efficiency and its spirit of pub- 

 lic service. 



Britain's Air Fleet Awaits Labor Supply 



Referring to the statement of Mr. 

 Joynson-Hicks, chairman of the Brit- 

 ish Parliamentary Air Committee, 

 that England was preparing to launch 

 into a tremendous campaign of air- 

 ship building and fighting, the Imper- 

 ial Munitions Board at Ottawa stated 

 that Canada's organization for the 

 production of airplane timber was 

 complete except in one particular. 



"The production of airplanes de- 

 pends as much upon the supply of 

 suitable timber as upon any other one 

 thing," said an official of the board. 

 "The best timber so far discovered 

 for airplane construction is Sitka 

 spruce, which grows exclusively on 

 the Pacific Coast, and there only in 

 favored localities. Washington and 

 Oregon States have a fair area of this 

 timber, but Queen Charlotte Island 

 and the bays and inlets of the Main- 

 land and Vancouver Island on the 

 British Columbia Coast have the 

 greatest area in the world, the trees 

 in some districts averaging eight feet 

 in diameter. 



"Italy and France are securing 

 their supplies in the United States 

 while England also is buying part 

 of her needs there. 



"It is stated that 70,000 men are 

 engaged in the woods and mills of 

 Oregon and Washington. In British 

 Columbia, however, the supply of 

 labor is very limited, and only 3,200 

 men " are now employed, though 

 thousands more could be used. 



"There is practically no limit to the 

 necessities of England and the Allies 

 for airplane lumber. While the ac- 

 tual footage required for an airplane 

 is not great, in order to secure the 

 quantity of the proper specifications 

 from ten to fifteen times as much 

 umber mist be cut. This will give 



some idea of the labor involved. Yet 

 to win victorv, Mr. Joynson-Hicks 

 says thousands of airplanes will be 

 needed. 



"The Imperial Munitions Board 

 has a fine organization for cutting 

 shipping and handling the logs and 

 timber, and although our output is 

 now four times what it was last 

 January, we could enormously in- 

 crease our production at present had 

 we the increased labor necessary fully 

 to operate the logging camps and 

 saw-mills." 



JOIN 



THE WOODLANDS 

 SECTION ! 



A general meeting of the Wood- 

 lands Section of the Canadian Pulp 

 and Paper Association will be held 

 at Montreal in September. Papers 

 will be given on these subjects: 

 "Scaling"; "Driving Streams" ;|and 

 "Company Camps." 



Membership in the Woodlands 

 Section is open to lumber ifirms as 

 well as paper firms who are interested 

 in the production of wood. The 

 benefits accruing from personal asso- 

 ciation with the Woodlands Section 

 are so obvious that no company 

 eligible to nominate a member should 

 lose the opportunity. A. L. Dawe, 

 Secretary Canadian Pulp and Paper 

 Association, Shaughnessy Building, 

 Montreal, is the official to be commun- 

 icated with in this matter. 



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