200 NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 



posted up at regular intervals wherever any one would be likely to travel 

 and I think the notices have a good effect. 



Resolution carried. 



MR. ANDERSON With reference to the exportation of pulpwood and 

 as being interested in pulpwood, we have viewed with considerable appre- 

 hension, first, the cutting of so much small wood, and in the next place we 

 think if the Government is willing to allow small wood to be cut, as I believe 

 it is generally stated to be cut throughout the Province, that if they are 

 determined to cut it we should at least have it manufactured in the Province, 

 because the cost of the labor that is put on the production of the wood itself 

 is small in comparison to what it is when manufactured in the Province, and 

 I think I heard it stated here this morning that there was something like- an 

 equivalent to ten dollars an acre, and if that is so I think it is greatly in the 

 interests of our country and to the interests of the future of our country, 

 that we should take this matter in hand before it gets to such a size that it 

 is impossible to handle. 



I therefore take great pleasure in moving this resolution : 



Inasmuch as this Convention is called to devise methods of conserving 

 our forests for posterity, so as to be a source of income for all time to come ; 



And whereas, at the present time large quantities of logs and pulpwood 

 are being exported to foreign countries for manufacture there instead of 

 within the Province, which practice is destructive to the forest and without 

 due compensation to the population ; 



Therefore resolved, that in the opinion of this Convention the export 

 of saw logs and pulpwood cut from Crown Lands should be prohibited. 



THE PREMIER I think I would suggest that it should be prohibited 

 by the Federal Government, as this resolution would seem to assume the 

 Provincial Legislature had the power. 



MR. HAZEN We should apply it to the Crown Lands, 



MR. HUTCHISON I understood when that resolution was framed it 

 was entirely to refer to pulpwood exports, it was entirely to refer to pulp- 

 wood cut on Crown Lands for exportation. 



