46 NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 



I think the matter of the surveying of lumber is a matter that should be 

 taken up by this Convention, and really I think by some sort of small com- 

 mission, a number of men appointed to look into the scale of logs in New 

 Brunswick as compared with other provinces and make it so that practical 

 mill men can saw out of the logs the money they pay for in them. 



I would move, Mr. Chairman, that three committees be appointed to 

 meet when they are able, and to frame resolutions and to make a report to 

 this body later on, say at the last session to-morrow afternoon, so that quiet!}' 

 and of themselves, a limited number of gentlemen can get together and think 

 out and reduce to writing their ideas and the gist of what they are learning; 

 from the different addresses and papers that are being given here. A com- 

 mittee might be appointed to advise as to whether it would be wise or not to- 

 form a Forestry Association. Another committee might be made on resolu- 

 tions alone, or there might be a sub-division, a committee of mill owners, a 

 committee of lumbermen or a committee of different men to move a resolution 

 as to how the Forestry question affects their particular line. The lumbermen, 

 have some particular ideas, and the manufacturer of lumber may have some 

 other ideas or the simple merchant or the provision man may have some 

 ideas, but if the three committees are appointed, one to consider the idea 

 of forming an association, another as to resolutions along the line of Forestry 

 legislation from the general public standpoint, and the third a committee of 

 lumbermen to suggest some resolutions from their point of view, you might 

 from the report of these different committees arrive at some result. 



MR. W. B. SNOWBALL In rising to second the resolution just made 

 by my friend, Mr. Gregory, 1 think that the suggestion made in reference to 

 a resolution committee is a very practical one. At the Forestry meeting at 

 Ottawa there were committees there appointed who brought in resolutions 

 the last day, which were discussed and considered. We may meet here now 

 and consider questions arising from the different papers read and arrive at- 

 no definite conclusion, or not ascertain the feelings of the lumbermen and 

 other gentlemen associated here, so as to come to any conclusion. I think 

 it therefore is advisable to have a resolution committee, to be named by the 

 chairman and then we might arrive at something definite. 



I would like to say that J was fully in accord with what the Chancellor 

 of the University said in reference to education. We have not in our prov- 

 ince today gentlemen thoroughly conversant with the Forestry question. 

 They are not trained along the lines set out in this paper presented by the 



