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is right; we have a right to have all modern improvements and develop- 

 ments. But if we leave such a charge to our posterity we have also a right 

 to protect the assets. Therefore, in reference to our own Province, we 

 should protect the forests in every possible way. It means that money is 

 necessary for that, and I feel the policy of the Government, of any Gov- 

 ernment in future that expects to be sustained by the people, must be to 

 expend whatever is necessary to preserve this great asset. When we look 

 around and find in each district that fire has been allowed to ruin millions 

 of dollars' worth of property, it is indeed a matter for sorrowful reflection, 

 and I feel that the people of the Province cannot be too strongly impressed 

 with the necessity of dealing with this question in an intelligent manner. 



I am pleased to meet you to-day, gentlemen, from all over this Do- 

 minion and from the United States. I trust that your deliberations will 

 result in great good. Some say now the solution is for the people to move 

 back to the farm. I say that is all right back to the farm and protect the 

 forests. These are the two live questions; these are the watchwords, not 

 only for the Province of New Brunswick, but for all the other Provinces. 

 "Back to the Farm, and Protect the Forests." 



I have very much pleasure indeed in welcoming you on behalf of the 

 people of the Province of New Brunswick, and in declaring this convention 

 opened. (Applause.) 



HON. J. DOUGLAS HAZEN, PREMIER OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Govern- 

 ment of the Province of New Brunswick, it affords me a very great deal of 

 pleasure to extend a very hearty welcome to the members of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association. It is a very great pleasure to see we have so many 

 representative lumbermen from every quarter of New Brunswick gen- 

 tlemen who have to deal with the forestry problems in a practical way 

 and also gentlemen from the sister Provinces and from the great Republic, 

 who have come here for the purpose of discussing these great problems, 

 which are common to the entire North American continent. To all I 

 extend a hearty welcome. 



It is right and proper, I think, that the Canadian Forestry Association 

 should have selected New Brunswick as their place of meeting this year, 

 upon the invitation of the Government of the Province. We have not the 

 extent of timber area found in some of the other Provinces of the Domin- 

 ion. Our entire Crown Land area amounts to about seven million acres, 

 and is small in comparison with the timber area of Quebec, Ontario and 

 British Columbia. But with regard to the relative size of the Province, 

 there is no Province in Canada in which the lumber industry is of greater 

 importance than in the Province of New Brunswick. 



There is a man in the employ of the Government Lieut.-Colonel 

 T. G. Loggie, the Deputy Surveyor-General who, when he entered the 

 Crown Land Office, found the whole territorial revenue of the Province 



