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should certainly be a great help in educating 

 the public along proper lines, and education is 

 the only means which will serve the purpose. 



The Technical School started a few years 

 ago by the Shawenegan Water & Power Com- 

 pany in cooperation with other industrial com- 

 panies in the district held its first commence- 



ment exercises on June 10. This school has done 

 excellent work and is destined to be of great 

 service to the region. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway is experi- 

 menting with a small light motor, costing 

 about 55 which can be attached without 

 difficulty to any track velocipede. If successful 

 this should prove very useful. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA NOTES 



The fire season in British Columbia opened 

 early under ominous conditions, there being 

 a period of three weeks or more between the 

 last of the snow and the growth of the new 

 vegetation, when the hazard was very great 

 in the northern interior. While a number of 

 serious fires occurred the advent of continu- 

 ously heavy rains in the first week of May, 

 and the wet weather since, have effectually 

 checked all fires and fostered a healthy growth 

 of vegetation. The conditions recorded above, 

 together with the short winter, did, in one 

 respect, however, materially help to diminish 

 the fire hazard, many thousands of acres of 

 logging and farmers' slash having been dealt 

 with, at the suggestion of or in cooperation 

 with the Forest Branch. In this way many 

 dangerous fire traps were cleaned up, and as a 

 result of the attention paid to disposal of slash 

 by the road and telephone authorities, satis- 

 factory headway has been attained. The 

 number of Forest Guards already appointed and 

 assigned to districts amounts to about 150, in 

 addition to the permanent staff of thirty-eight 

 Rangers. As the season advances it is ex- 

 pected that thirty more Guards and probably 

 fifty or sixty patrolmen will be added. 



feet of Douglas Fir. This will go forward in 

 June and July in tonnage supplied by the 

 British Admiralty. 



Mr. H. R. Christie, Assistant Chief of 

 Operation, is making an extended trip of 

 Inspection in the northern Forest Districts 

 conferring with District Foresters Murray, 

 Bonney, Marvin, Allen and Irwin. He reports 

 that while there was a short spring fire season 

 heavy rains have made the north country safe 

 for the present. 



During Chief Forester MacMillan's absence 

 on a tour of the world in the interests of trade 

 extension as Special Trade Commissioner, Mr. 

 M. A. Grainger is the Acting Chief Forester 

 of the B. C. Forest Service. 



The British Admiralty has been buying 

 large quantities of timber for war purposes 

 of late and the Hastings Mills of British 

 Columbia at Vancouver recentlv secured an 

 erder from them for ten million (10,000,000) 



Mr. Wyngard C. Gladwin, an Inspector of 

 the British Columbia Forest Branch, died 

 after a long illness on April 13. 



Mr. Gladwin was a pioneer in fire protection 

 matters in British Columbia, having had 

 charge of the Provincial Fire Wardens from 

 the inception of protection work. Formerly 

 a member of the Northwest Mounted Police, 

 he brought to the work a wide knowledge of 

 men, and the principle of organization and 

 discipline. Mr. Gladwin had succeeded in 

 placing the fire protection work on a sound 

 basis by the time the Forest Branch was 

 established in 1912, and the present system is 

 simply the natural growth of his work. From 

 1912 until his death he had charge of the rail- 

 way fire protection work of the whole Province, 

 acting as Inspector both for the Board of 

 Railway Commissioners and the Provincial 

 Forest Branch. Loyal and honorable as an 

 officer, and generous and sympathetic as a 

 friend, Mr. Gladwin's death is deeply felt 

 by his associates. 



An interesting departure has been made 

 under the direction of the Hon. W. R. Ross to 

 make our people realize the great importance 

 of the lumber industry and the necessity of 

 protecting the forest resources of British 

 Columbia from damage by fire. 



Moving pictures have nowadays an educa- 

 tional power only second to that of the press 

 itself. Hence last year a number of the motion- 

 picture theatres in the Province were supplied 

 with a set of slides to be used in the intervals 

 between the ordinary films. The slides were 

 sent out under instructions from the Minister 

 of Lands with a letter explaining the need for 

 the cooperation of the theatre proprietors in 

 order to reach a large body of the public 

 inaccessible by any other means. The result 

 was' entirely satisfactory, both theatres and 

 patrons expressing their appreciation. This 

 year many more were sent out. 



