52 NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 



famous as he lifted up an axe against the grtat trees. Let us hope that 

 under a wiser policy^nature will be given an opportunity to repair, as far as 

 possible, the ravages caused by the improvidence of the past, and to repro- 

 duce trees at least as fast as the necessities and interests of men require the 

 removal of those which now flourish in our forests. 



- Mr. T. B. Kidner of the Provincial Normal School, Fredericton, then 

 addressed the Convention : 



T. B. KIDNER 

 Director of Manual Training, N. B. 



The part played by the Manual Training Schools of New Brunswick in 

 this important matter now before the Convention is not, perhaps, a very 

 large one, but I venture to think it is of sufficient importance to bring before 

 your attention this afternoon, and that, for two reasons. The first reason is 

 that as I understand it. one of the chief objects of this Convention is to 

 arouse an interest in these matters and that is one of the things we are 



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attempting to do with the children. Secondly, in the Manual Training 

 schools wo are dealing with the pupils at a very plastic time, when very 

 lasting impressions will be made upon them and we must remember that they 

 will have to deal with this question of Forestry when it becomes a much more 

 acute one a few years hence. 



We have some twenty Manual Training schools in the Province of New 

 Brunswick. They are not, I may say, Manual Training schools of the type 

 now so familiar in the United States the Manual Training high schools of 

 the cities. We have not yet any Manual Training high schools. We have, 

 however, departments of Manual Training in connection with the common 

 schools and they are attended chiefly by the boys of grades VI., VII. and 

 VIII., the highest grades in the common schools, that is to say by boys from 

 eleven or twelve to fourteen jor fifteen years of age, a most important age 

 from an educational standpoint. In some few instances the high school 

 pupils attend the Manual Training schools, but the high school manual 

 training is merely incidental and we have no recognized manual training in 



our high school course at present. 







The boys, from these upper grade,s I have mentioned, spend half a day 

 each week in the Manual Training room and there they make articles out of 



