4-8 NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 



Hon. J. P. Bui-chill, 

 Mr. C. E. Lund, D. L. S., 

 Mr. David' Richards, 

 Mr. James Beveridcre. 



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Lumbermen's Committee 



Mr. J. F. Gregory, 

 Hon. E. Hutchison, 

 Mr. Henry Hilyard, 

 Mr. W. B. Snowball, 

 Mr. A. H. F. Randolph, 

 Mr. F. E. Sayre, 

 Mr. Fred Anderson, 

 Mr. D. J. Buckley. 



Non-Lumbermen's Committee 



Hon. A. R. McClelan, 

 Mr. J. D. Hazen, M. P. P. 

 Mr. C. M. Legere, M. P. P. 

 Hon. Geo. F. Hill, 

 Dr. Geo. U. Hay. 



Dr. Inch, Chief Superintendent of Education, N. B., then read the fol- 

 lowing address : 



ADDRESS OF DR. J. R. INCH, 



Chief Superintendent of Education. 



Mr. Chairman, 



It is characteristic of the spirit of the age in which we live to 

 look to the schools for the promotion of every movement intended to benefit 

 the human race. There are some who still think that the teaching of the 

 three R's should be the limit of public school instruction. And yet the 

 farmer, the lumberman, the merchant, the mechanic, the professional man, 

 the social reformer, the religious teacher and even the military leader all 

 in turn demand that the special interest which each has most at heart shall 

 b3 impressed on the minds of the rising generation by the teachers in the 

 public schools. This universal call made upon the schools is a splendid trib- 

 ute to the power of Education. And yet what a herculean task is thus 



