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Canadian Forestry Journal, September, Jpi5. 



(Published in Collaboration with Canadian Society of Forest Engineers.) 



On the 24th. of August, the death of 

 Mr. F. LaHberte occured in Quebec 

 following an operation for apendicitis. 

 Mr. Laliberte had been nominated as 

 a member of the Canadian Society of 

 Forest Engineers. He was 28 years of 

 age and had served for two years with 

 the Quebec Forest Branch after grad- 

 uating from Laval Forest School. He 

 then organized the Forest Engineering 

 firm of Laliberte and Marquis and at 

 the time of his death was engaged in 

 shipping poplar to South Africa. He 

 was a young man with a promising 

 future and his death is much regretted. 



Assistant Forester H. K. Robinson, 

 of the B. C. Forest Service, who holds 

 a commision in the 5th. Regiment. 

 Royal Canadian Artillery, is leaving 

 for the front in charge of a detach- 

 ment provided by that Regiment for 

 active service. 



Forest Assistant McVickar, of the 

 Royal Canadian Dragoons, who has 

 been in the trenches for several 

 months, is no win England recover- 

 ing from illness.' 



Deputy District Forester J- B. Mit- 

 chell and Ranger Charles Cowan were 

 at Shorncliffe, England, when last 

 beared from, expecting orders to leave 

 for France. 



Interesting accounts of trench fight- 

 ing in Belgium came from Ranger 

 Turnbull of the Princess Pats Light 

 Infantrv. 



Forest Assistant E. G. MacDougall 

 has left for England with one of the 

 Eastern Canadian Regiments, preferr- 

 ing to go in the ranks rather than wait 

 for a commission. 



H. R. MacMillan, Special Trade 

 Commissioner, after visiting the 

 L^nited Kingdom, France and Htaly, 

 is on his wav to South Africa. 



R. R. Bradley, Forester of the New 

 Brunswick Railway Company, is 

 spending his vacation at Kingsmere, 

 Oue. 



Mr. Henri Roy, visited the Laur- 

 entide Company's Nursery and exper- 

 imentals plots this week. 



THE FIRST FIRE LAW. 



In the Bible, Book of Exo- 

 dus, the twenty-second chap- 

 ter, the sixth verse reads as 

 follows : 



"If fire break out, and 

 catch in thorns, so that the 

 stacks of corn, or the 

 standing corn, or the 

 field, be consumed there- 

 with, he that kindled the 

 fire shall 'surely make res- 

 titution." 



The above quoted verse is 

 among the judgments which 

 the Lord commanded Moses to 

 set before the Hebrews in the 

 wilderness. 



