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Chancellor, and therefore, if we do want men, we have to go outside the 

 Province and bring men from the United States or from Western Canada, 

 who are not conversant with the needs of our Province. What we want is 

 men who know our Province and the forests about here, who know the ship- 

 ping, are conversant with the trade and the necessities and what is wrapped 

 up in the lumbering trade. We do not want to import strangers who are 

 not in sympathy with the needs of the country, but rather should take our 

 own young men, who will be thoroughly in sympathy with what we require 

 in this Province. 



While we are dealing with this matter I would state that I would like 

 to see joined with that University course, a short course, of say two or three 

 months of the year, where the sons of lumbermen could get some of this 

 training in a short time. We are a hard working class of people and I think 

 if a young man is going into the lumbering business he should get into it when 

 he is 17 or 18 years of age, as up to that time they would probably be un- 

 able to take the full technical course which is laid down and which to some 

 extent they do not fully require. They, however, need something of the 

 course which is mapped out and if in the summer, say two or three months, 

 they could take advantage of this particular course, it would be of great 

 benefit to them in maintaining the lumber interest and looking after their 

 business successfully. I know it would have been of great beueh't to me if I 

 could have obtained something of the course which Chancellor Jones has 

 mapped out. I therefore would like, if such a course is started at the Uni- 

 versity, that in connection with that, a short course should also be arranged, 

 where a young man could go in and not perhaps take the degree, but get the 

 information and the necessary practical and theoretical knowledge that is 

 laid out in this very extensive course. I hope that such a course will be 

 adopted by the University and assisted by the Government, through the 

 Department of the Surveyor General, as I think it is a most necessary thing 

 to have young men trained who can take positions in the lumbering business 

 and made thoroughly capable to carry on the lumbering business of the 

 Province. 



The Premier announced the following committees as appointed unde 

 Mr. Gregory's motion No. 1 : 



Committee on Forestry Association 

 Hon. F. J. Sweeney, 

 Hon. C. N. Skinner, 



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