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It is not their regular duty, but still they have instructions from the Com- 

 missioners to do all they can in that regard. 



I may say that I am about leaving the service, but I will not lose inter- 

 est in the Forestry Association at all, but if I were remaining, one of the 

 things I would do and it will probably be done would be to have some 

 sort of force, either the Mounted Police in the North country, especially to 

 take charge of the guarding, or have some force similar because the Indians 

 and the people there pay great respect to the Red Coat, or the Mounted 

 Police uniform ; and since the new provinces have been formed, they wil 

 take over the administration of justice and in many cases they will probably 

 <lisband a number of the police and I was hoping we might be able to retain 

 some of the best men for the Forestry branch. 



PROF. CARY It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge your vote of 

 thanks and hearty welcome here. I am greatly surprised to find myself the 

 only American Forester here, because we have always felt it our pleasure 

 and duty to attend conventions of this kind. Mr. Pinchot and Mr. Price 

 were expected here, and I am sure it was with great regret that they were 

 not able to attend. I feel sure that you ought to feel great encouragement 

 and great results from your Convention here. For my part, accept my very 

 hearty thanks for your very cordial welcome. 



MR. POWER Mr. Premier and gentlemen, I thank you most heartily 

 for your vote of thanks and I assure you we will carry back to our prov- 

 inces the most warm and kindly feelings for the people of New Brunswick, 

 knowing the hearty interest which has been taken in the subject of Forestry. 



MR. MACMILLAN Mr. Premier, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to ex- 

 press my thanks to you for the privilege which has been accorded to me in 

 coming here, and to say that I am only doing what many Canadians are 

 doing at the present time, going down to the United States and learning as 

 much as possible from their Forest schools and system of Forestry, and get- 

 ting the encouragement they may give in the success they have attained, so 

 tha*t we may come back to Canada and in the better service, do here what 

 they have done down there. 



MR. HILL Mr. Chairman, there is an enemy marching against our 

 forests that is more dangerous than the axe, more dangerous than fire, more 

 dangerous, I may say, than even this Forest Convention an enemy that is 

 known in the United States and in Europe as the Brown Tailed Moth. NOAV, 



