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hoped that the schools of the prov- 

 ince will soon take on not only a 

 much improved appearance, but also 

 a truly national character, both as 

 to teaching and general external 

 setting. 



"We also advocate that cities and 

 municipalities having several schools 

 to provide for slTOuld establish small 

 nurseries for the supplying of suitable 

 trees, shrubs and perennial flowers 

 in quantity. Such a school nursery 

 in a city or rural municipality might 

 be directly connected with one of the 

 larger schools. In this way the 

 pupils of such central school would 

 l3e able to do at least part of the 

 work and would have no small ad- 

 vantage from an educational stand- 

 point as a result of this. Already 

 a move has been made along this 

 line in connection with one of the 

 schools in Vancouver City, and also 

 in one of the schools in {he munici- 

 pality of South Vancouver. 



"Most of the provinces in Canada 

 have adopted the policy of supplying 

 free to schools many of the text-books 

 used by the pupils. It is our inten- 

 tion in British Columbia also to 



supply in a similar manner that 

 which will make school life mote 

 pleasant and less monotonous — good 

 playgrounds, carefully planned, well 

 ecpiipped and liberally furnished with 

 our best Canadian trees and flowering 

 shrubs. Our provincial schools nur- 

 sery helps to make this possible." 



$35,000 UP IN SMOKE 



In British Columbia one of the 

 heavy losses of the fire season was at 

 Campbell River, where the Inter- 

 national Timber Co. sustained a loss 

 of $35,000, The Kootenay district 

 has sustained several fires, the w^orst 

 being in the operations of the KooL- 

 enay Shingle Co. 



One manufacturer of pulp build- 

 ing board in the United States sold 

 last year an amount equal to 300,- 

 000,000 feet of lumber, and this same 

 company expects to sell over 400,- 

 000,000 feet board measure in the 

 year 1917. Remember, this was only 

 one concern. Probably the total 

 coverage by pulp substitutes will 

 reach between 600,000,000 and 700,- 

 000,000 feet. 



Hardwocd Trees in the B. C. Provincial Nursery. 



