NEW , p , RUNS WICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 199 



THE PREMIER By law they are. 



MR. F. W. SUMNER It would seem to me in a mild way I would 

 suggest that special instructions be given to the guides. I have information 

 through a letter, since coming here, that a guide with sportsmen on some 

 of my land started a fire which burned quite a piece of land. The great pro- 

 portion of hunters who go into the woods, I believe really feel it would be 

 disastrous to start fires, but there are men who go in as hunters who do not 

 care, and for this reason I feel the guides should have very strict instructions. 



Then I think it would be well to have a Board of Investigation and that 

 every fire that occurs in the woods should be investigated down to the point. 

 It may be expensive, but a year or two- of that I believe, would be productive 

 of good results. I think there has never been the trouble taken to find out 

 how fires started and I believe if it was, and the people all through the country 

 knew it, they would be more careful and bring responsibility on the people 

 who started them, and I would suggest it would be well to have an investi- 

 gating committee to investigate every fire, how it started and who started 

 it, to find out under oath. 



I believe this meeting will be for good and I think it would be well to 

 go through the back settlements and give people copies of the laws in respect 

 to fires. The people do not seem yet to be alive to the fact that they should 

 not start fires. 



FLEMING What method has been adopted for the distribution 

 of these printed notices containing the section of the Act in relation to forest 

 fires ? Going up and down the country, I think, only once have I seen this 

 notice posted up in a public place. It seems to me it would be a very good 

 thing if there was some system adopted for having this notice put up just 

 the same as the Game Law posted in a conspicuous place in the different 

 parishes throughout the country. 



THE PREMIER The practice is to send notices, printed on cotton, so 

 as to be durable, to send them to the game wardens and sealers of lumber, 

 and very often licensees of lumber lands, who are careful, get a lot of them. 

 I have seen them get two or three hundred and post them wherever there 

 were public roads leading to their lands. 



The Maritime Sulphite Fibre lands notices were all around. The 

 manager of the Bank of Montreal was very careful to have these notices 



