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alternative: FOREST BRANCH REPORT, 1938.
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is part of: Sessional Papers of the Province of British Columbia
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issued: 2016
issued: [1939]
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note: PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF LANDS HON. A. W. GRAY, Minister. H. Cathcart, Deputy Minister. E. C. Manning, Chief Forester. REPORT OP THE FOREST BRANCH FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31ST 1938 PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1939. Victoria, B.C., February 28th, 1939. To His Honour E. W. Hamber, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia. May it please Your Honour : Herewith I beg respectfully to submit the Annual Report of the Forest Branch of the Department of Lands for the year 1938. A. W. GRAY, Minister of Lands. The Hon. A. W. Gray, Minister of Lands, Victoria, B.C. Sir,—There is submitted herewith the Annual Report on activities of the Branch during the calendar year 1938. E. C. MANNING, Chief Forester. REPORT OF THE FOREST BRANCH. Business reviews of the past few years have not uncommonly deplored the late depression, expressed regret over the failure to attain the normal conditions of 1929, and noted with restrained enthusiasm the current improvements. More recently a few well-qualified observers have been suggesting that we deceive ourselves and cloud the prospect by persisting in holding the abnormal inflated conditions of 1929 for ever before us as a standard for comparison and that business conditions during the past three years have, in actual fact, been normal or better than normal. However bank clearings, loadings, laboriously derived indices, and the thousand other indicators may be interpreted by the economists, it is safe to say that it would be a good tonic to accept this latter point of view. Appraised on its own merits, then, the year 1938 in the local world of forestry and forest industry presents a reasonably well-balanced account. Against a disastrous fire season we can enter some important advances in protection organization and technique; against wars, debased exchange, trade treaty negotiations, and other de…
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title: PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF LANDS. HON. A. W. GRAY, Minister. H. CATHCART, Deputy Minister. E. C. MANNING, Chief Forester. REPORT OF THE FOREST BRANCH FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31ST 1938
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