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for our want of work in tlio direction of hatcheries ; l)ut I do l)e- 

 lieve. (to show von the iniportance of the interprovincial in- 

 formal eonfen'nce I have suggested,) that if you all got together 

 in that way, when the officials appointed l)y the doniinion and 

 the provincial governments meet you and see the great work you 

 are doing in restocking hatcheries, that they would he shamed 

 into placing more money in tlie estimates for these purposes, and 

 that we should luive, as we ouglit to liave, just as fine hatcheries 

 as ^[r. Median so s))U'n(lidIy cari-ies on lieiv in Pennsylvania. 



Gentlenu'ii, I tliank you for the kind way in wliich you haw 

 listened to me. If 1 have made any remarks tliat may at all 

 offend you. 1 am indeed sorry: hut I am woi-king. as I Ijelieve. 

 for the hest intt'rests of tlie |)ro\iiue in whicli I was l)orn, a 

 province, gentlemen, that is larger 1 think than any of your 

 states with the exception of Texas, a province that lias immense 

 possibilities, and a ])]'ovinee which will shortly huild a railroad 

 to Hudscm Bay and make it ])ossil)le to transship to your nuirkets 

 some of the finest salt water hsh in tiie world. And again, I 

 work because I want, l)y tlie time that railroad touches Hudson 

 Bay to have ])uhlit- opinion so wrought up over the ])roper regu- 

 lation of the fisheries we ])ossess, that it will not allow that mag- 

 nificent hody of water to he (h'])leted as most of our other lakes 

 liave heeii. ( (ireat aitplanse. ) 



