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least the relations of the large ma- 

 jority who would prefer to continue 

 the established Annual Membership 

 at one dollar a year. By a motion of 

 ^Ir. Clyde Leavitt, seconded by Mr. 

 Ellwood Wilson, and carried by a 

 two-thirds vote of the members pre- 



sent, the Constitution was altered to 

 read : "Its membership shall include 

 all who pay an Annual Fee of $1.00 

 or a Contributing Membership fee 

 of $5 or a Life Membership fee of 

 $25." The Life Membership fee is 

 thereby increased from $10 to $25. 



RESOLUTIONS 



Amendments in Quebec : "Resol- 

 ved : that as this Association hears 

 that Quebec lumbermen have drawn 

 up some suggestions for necessary 

 amendments to the forest fire laws 

 and that these have received the 

 hearty endorsement of Hon. Jules 

 Allard and his assistants with the 

 assurance that this would be intro- 

 duced as a Government measure, 

 this Association heartily endorses 

 these amendments and congratu- 

 lates the Honourable Minister and 

 urges the Quebec Legislature to 

 pass them." Moved by Mr. Ellwood 

 \\'ilson, seconded by Mr. J. B. 

 \Miite, and carried. 



Civil Service Reform. 



Moved by Mr. Clyde Leavitt, 

 seconded by Mr. Ellwood AVilson, 

 and carried, "That the President be 

 authorized to appoint a Standing 

 Committee of three to take up with 

 the Dominion Government the mat- 

 ter of extending the scope of the 

 Civil Service Act to cover the out- 

 side service of the Dominion Fores- 

 try Branch." 



Forest Fire Statistics. 



Moved by Mr. Clyde Leavitt, se- 

 conded by Mr. J. B. White, and car- 

 ried. "That the President be author- 

 ized to appoint a committee of ten 

 to take up with the Provincial Gov- 

 ernments of Eastern Canada the 

 matter of the collection and publica- 

 tion of uniform statistics of forest 

 fire losses." 



A meeting of the Directors was 

 held at the close of the general meet- 

 ing. 



Tlie afternoon session which Avas 

 well attended was occupied with the 



delivery of addresses by Hon. AV. R. 

 Brown^ President of the New Hamp- 

 shire Forestry Association, and Gen- 

 eral Manager of the Brown Corpor- 

 ation of La Tuque. P.Q., on "Closer 

 Utilization of Forest Products," 

 which was illustrated with many 

 lantern slides; Mr. S. Lawrence de 

 Carteret on "The Work of The St. 

 Maurice Protective Association" ; 

 R. H. Campbell on "Forestry and 

 the Future"; E. J. Zavitz on "For- 

 estry in Ontario." and W. T. Van 

 Dus'en, of the British Columbia For- 

 est Service, on "Forestry and the 

 Lumber Industry." Interest was 

 added to the reading of the papers 

 by a lively amount of discussion in 

 which members and friends of the 

 Association from many parts of 

 Canada took part. 



Several of the papers are given in 

 this issue and others will be publish- 

 ed in the March number. 



The Banquet. 



The annual banquet of the Asso- 

 ciation was held this year in con- 

 junction with the Canadian Lum- 

 bermen's Association, the Commis- 

 sion of Conservation, and the Can- 

 adian Society of Forest Engineers. 

 Nearly 150 took their places in the 

 handsome dining room of the Cha- 

 teau Laurier, the occasion being 

 graced by the presence of a number 

 of ladies. Of the quality of the 

 speeches following the repast, too 

 much cannot be said. Without ex- 

 ception, they struck and sustained a 

 high level of eloquence, the guests 

 giving the most implicit attention to 

 the keenly human reminiscent inci- 

 dents recounted by Sir George 



