44 NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 



Discussion then took place participated in by Mr. Robert Connolly, Mr. 

 J. Eraser Gregory, and others. 



MR. ROBERT CONNOLLY I have heard a great many papers read, 

 and very good articles they were ; but I have cut the log, and have sawed it, 

 and have seen it go to England ; but when you get down to Forestry 

 business I say this : That the Government has at the present time got the very 

 best system that can be placed before this country. You cut the log 10 inches 

 18 feet and nothing smaller, and put men in charge to look after that, 

 and look after the fires and you have got the Forestry. And if a man will 

 go along and trim his trees right up to 5 inches, there will be in many cases 

 three logs cut out of a tree. You should not charge a man anything for this 

 because that is the best protection the forest can have. I stand here to tell 

 you, straight and distinctly, that you need to appoint forest rangers to look 

 after the fires. Give us one man on the Bay Shore to go and report every 

 fortnight where he is, and what he is doing, and in case a fire starts up to 

 notify the men who hold the licenses, such as The Bay Shore Lumber Co., 

 and White & Prescott's, and I say those people who hold the licenses should 

 pay one-half the man's salary. Now you are getting down to business and 

 the Government is protecting the licensees and protecting themselves. I 

 think that is practical work as regards looking after the forests. You can 

 go along and educate the people as you like, but there is the whole thing 

 right in a nut-shell, to my mind. What I say is that we ought to have fire 

 rangers. They should be appointed by the Government and the licensees 

 should pay their share, and let them look after the district, and let them 

 report what they are doing, and I do not think you will have very much 

 trouble after that. 



MR. J. FRASER GREGORY I would like to say something that I 

 have on my mind. I am very sorry indeed to see so few St. John lumber- 

 men here today. I might also say that our firm the firm I represent 

 does not own nor control one square mile of timber limits in the Province of 

 New Brunswick. Our holdings are all in the Province of Quebec, and 

 while I am a member of the Limit Holders Association, and a member of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association and have personal interests in Quebec, in 

 Fredericton here, and in the Province of New Brunswick, my interests would 

 be rather that of a private citizen than that of a lumberman ; yet at some 

 time it might be that I would be interested in timber limits in the Province 

 of New Brunswick. I have looked through this programme and there are 

 two or three things I think have been omitted in it, and I want to call 



