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ordinary workmen such as Mr. Beveridge would employ cutting wood and 

 Numbering and that sort of thing. 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS I do not think the average immigrant is 

 much used to cutting wood or lumbering ; but a great many of them are 

 used to handling lumber as it is transferred from the steamer, and such like. 

 Last year sixty per cent, came from the towns and villages. The larger 

 portion of them had been used to ordinary laboring work. About forty per 

 cent, came from the agricultural districts ; but about twenty-five per cent. 

 of the sixty per cent, were born and brought up in the country, but had 

 drifted to the city and worked there a number of years anywhere from two 

 to ten years in the city. The majority of the people we bring are used to 

 -heavy hard labor. 



HON. A. R. McCLELAN What is the proportion of married men as 

 compared with single men, that you have brought ? 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS I am not quite sure, of the number we 

 have brought ; but year before last the applications we got from married 

 men was only two per cent., while last year they had risen to twenty-five 

 per cent. ; so it is evident we brought at least twenty- five per cent, 

 of married men last year. There are a great many married men who 

 -are not in a position to bring their families with them ; but they send for 

 them when they are able and we bring them out. 



The Convention then adjourned until evening. 



THURSDAY EVENING SESSIOX 



The Convention was called to order by the Premier, at 8.20 p. in. when 

 Dr. Bailey of the University of New Brunswick read a paper by Prof. Pen- 

 hallow, of McGill University on the Pulp Industry of Canada, which paper 

 was illustrated by lantern pictures. 



D. P. PENHALLOW. 

 THE WOOD PULP INDUSTRY OF CANADA. 



LIST OF SLIDES. 

 1 Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus). 



