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did, and we were ready to accept further suggestions that will better the ser- 

 vice. I did not say that we could not do anything to improve the situation. 

 We are daily doing something to improve the situation. The fact that we are 

 now asking for bids by the thousand feet instead of by the square mile is one 

 great step in advance (Hear, hear and applause) no doubt about that. 

 That is something we have done. Then the setting aside of timber areas as 

 forest reserves, and watching them and keeping the timber, is another great 

 step in advance. At the present time we are offering for sale a small quan- 

 tity of timber that was damaged in the Temagami Reserve this last summer, 

 and one of the conditions of sale is that the purchaser shall burn the debris 

 in the cutting of the timber. Perhaps that will be interesting information 

 to Professor Fernow; at any rate that is another step in advance. We are not 

 Bourbons in the Crown Lands Department of Ontario. We are all the time 

 thinking and trying to better the situation, but we don't think we know 

 everything. We are always willing to accept information or suggestions from 

 any source whatever. Our idea is to give the Province the best possible ser- 

 vice that can be obtained. (Applause.) 



Dr. FERNOW : Will you permit me to set Mr. White right as to my atti- 

 tude. I did not intend to criticise or reflect 



Mr. WHITE : No ; I don't think you did. 



Dr. Fernow : I was simply going to draw a conclusion which Mr. White 

 , very carefully avoided drawing, and for which I honour him. I should per- 

 haps have expressed my admiration of the progress that has been made, but 

 I did not thiijs we were here for that purpose, but rather for advance ; so I 

 want to accept any corrections, and have Mr. White understand that I am in 

 sympathy, and was only drawing conclusions with the long bow towards the 

 distant future, which he did not. 



Mr. H. M. PRICE : As a resident of the Province of Quebec I think I can 

 fairly congratulate the Province of Ontario on its progressive policy in the 

 administration of its Crown Lands. I think they have adjusted the burden 

 very fairly indeed; in fact they have adjusted it perhaps a little heavier on 

 the man who cuts the timber than the Province of Quebec would be willing 

 to do at the present time. They must have educated the lumbermen up here 

 to a very high standard, when they are willing to pay f 10 per thousand feet 

 for the cut of their pine timber. In the Province of Quebec I fear it will be 

 many years before the lumberman will be as long-suffering as that. I think 

 Mr. White has given us a very good resume of the state of the lumber trade 

 in the Province of Ontario, and I feel that we in Quebec have a great deal to 

 learn. I think the administration of the Crown Lands in this Province has 

 very little to be reflected on at the present time. I don't say that it is per- 

 fect, because nothing is perfect; man is imperfect, unhappily; but I do feel 

 that this Province is teaching the other Provinces in the Dominion a lesson 



