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extended the leases from ten to 25 years. It made the mill owning land 

 holder jointly interested with the Government for the maintenance and 

 preservation of the forest as the success of their vested interests in mills, 

 wharves, tug boats, booms, logging plants, stream improvements and dams r 

 was wrapped up in the continuance of the forests and today I am satisfied 

 that every large holder can report their lands are practically as good, except 

 where fires have occurred, as they were ten years ago. Now let us enlarge 

 on this system so ably instituted by an astute Government, and we find per- 

 petual leases the outcome, as outlined in the present Government's timber 

 limits policy. Link together the vested rights and the Government making- 



a mutual interest and to my mind you have the surest and safest method of 



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perpetuating the continuance of the revenue and the preservation of our 

 forest areas and also the continuance of an industry so beneficial to our 

 Province. I do not think that the Government should delay taking definite 

 action on this policy or put oft' to some date five or six years hence, the time it 

 will take to prepare plans, etc , the putting of same into practice, but they 

 should let the limit holders know at once what the policy will be for con- 

 tinuence. 



With reference to fire protection I think some uniform policy should be 

 adopted, appointing fire rangers to definite districts, who will spend their 

 entire time, from May till October, on their territory, and arranging for the 

 payment of them. 



Special attention should be paid to districts through which public roads 

 and railways run and along wood trails, fishing streams and on areas hunted 

 for moose and caribou. 



If the conclusions drawn in this paper are correct then every industry 

 should assist in advancing the forest interests and we hope that whether 

 looking at it from the standpoint of a limit holder or that of an interested 

 outsider, who might wish to hold limits, that we will approach it with good 

 judgment, so as to assist the Government in solving a matter of such great 

 importance to our Province. 



A. E. Hanson then read a paper on 



THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF OUR FORESTS, WITH SOME OF 

 THE ECONOMICAL RESULTS OF WORKING THE SAME. 



Next to agriculture, the chief industry of New Brunswick is the 

 manufacture and export of lumber. Her greatest asset is her forest 



