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fiu& Jhy-- J-- e.£"u& ;~/V~ /42 PPR & 6 FIN AYSON CONFIDENT ' | S s _ NEW PULPWOOD AC] _|_HAS PUBLIC SUPPORT f l :A 62 si-- f "W KFimber Like Graim. $ _ Actto -- \ _ The people, said Mr. Finlayson, need-- s J C n Mus" Be Taken to ed a new point of view about timber. * | u ( It had to be considered in the same t'Tlmber Every Year light as grain. To cut wheat in July a before it was ripe would be a crime in j Esl t Matures and to any farmer's eyes. To cut it in Sep-- * imi tember after it had matured would ps blm"'atc FUture POS- ' en equally great offense. But to cut ibili timber, any time, was all right. That * #t lllly o' Over expan-- state of affairs had existed for too long 1 Caf It needed correction. ston; Declares Minister The "sustained yieldf tt)asis." which was the chief target of the new act, of ForeSts would, said Mr. Finlayson, mean sim-- e Eioi ply the cutting of timber every year as it matured. Nothing new or startling TWO-YEAR CA M P AI GN in that policy! European countries had practiced it for years. One forest in s LEADS UP TO BILL the South of France, 10 years of age, «was Improving every year under ex-- smmz pert reforestation, and, indirectly, con-- When Hon. William PFinlayson. Min trfl;fitingt $90,000 annually to the Re-- ' a i y Myi AMLLK~ ublic's treasury. ; ister of Lands and Forests: moved sec-- » "We must put our industry here on ond reading to his new Pulpwood Sup-- the basis," said the Minister, '"where Sly Act in the Legislature yesterd@y, syery company will cut only the incre-- £% Aae registered ancther appreciable ad-- ment and balance its production year Yance in the campaign which he and after yearfi" ia: wnat in Sitit wourl his h y racve Cipas Fancy, he said, wha e re 4 : der'ann.aem hayfa waged over ."" have bgexl in Ontario had we years ago § F period of two years "to awaken public | agopted the policy with regard to tim-- s «consciousness" to the actual facts re-- : ber that France now fo(lllowsl.)rif § . garding the pulpwood i stry i Mr. Finlayson offered a ef expla-- .Provh'%'c PoP pqusity in this nation of the prese'nt,t muddle('l s%at(ei' ie P o in which the newsprint companies fin . in his new act, Mr. Finlayson believye® tnemselves. Overexpansion, the chief ne has the long--sought solution to the > cause, he stated, had been prevalent '?resen'atlon of this industry. Much pop o;fly in Ontario and Quebec, but in thought, many conferences, and mor? the United States and Newfoundland as f.han 1,000 speeches, up and down On-- well, The industry everywhere had tario, have gone into setting the legis-- % grown so rapidly that it had been dif-- lative stage for it. It was ready f©tT ' ficult to keep a finger on its pulse. introduction a year ago, but was with-- ______ + f drawn in the belief that public cpinion /--' was not quite ready for it. Now, Mr. / P¥ F' / o AS as s« *R . T i¥ < Finlayson feels, the time is ripe. 4 € S Ola }/ C'é P4 a * a!' o 2 No More Mistakes. V ' While, he states, there is no cause e e * for alarm--in that Ontaric is still tre-- | | nendously wealthy in timber--the hour _ ., Or un S O lCl e at last has been reached when action } must be taken to put the industry on | a "substantial yield basis'--to guard | against repetition in the North of the f *# | "ghestly mistakes" that were made in { rom l uor n eres ® | southern Ontario years and years ago-- | , | to eliminate future pcossibility of the | "overexpansion" that precipitated the z j 'unsettied situation in which the news-- | print people fird themsclves today-- t | and to maintain, generally speaking, the l record the industry has established for ' itself; second only to agriculture in meommmamnmmmmmmaens 0 oo om memmman e m mmces ce in n e ieme e on mm sn + Ontaric, and the greatest industrial factor in the Dominion in creating i favorable balarce of trade with th? 1Premler Ferguson, Answer- United States. f a S. I e 3 * . _ Mr. Finlayson spoke to his bill for | ing inclatr s QUCT!CS,. upward of two hours yesterday, tracing | i the story of the timber industry from | Demes Govemment IS. f '..hebtelmc when the farmer, looking upon | I l d d S | timber as some inexhaustible supply, | j | got rid of it as fast as he could, down | mp tcate , an ays He. 10 the present moment when big pulp ! t R' and paper operators are willing to try | Or der Cd Retur n O.f COfl-, s enything with the Government in order * b * ' o .to get the industry on some definite, ' trt UllOflS peormanent basis. I "The farmer," said Mr. Finlayson, t ""was probably our greatest offender in { 'the destruction of timber,. Then came | LONDON WINERY the lumbermen, and aftor all these years t T admit we were not a very great success 1 ASKED TO DONA TE » 'as lumbermen. Governments, I confess,0 / n ie eerane ietinpirntevitian havy been short--sighted, too." } § ney. ; ' _ But Ontario Administrations have ; Demands by William E. N. Sinclair, 'been intclli%e?t. t%air{}??t'elgl'-stf"'tnla%&h | Liberal Leader in the Provincial Legis-- _ % a»s compare O e Un ates. '"We T xver & nave made a number of lamentable mis-- _ | lature, "that P"',',"" G. Howard Tet takes," he said, "but we never made the: | Euson clear up" the reports that a great mistake that Michigan, for in-- .! Conservative organization had circular-- Staf;icei"d}d"'}" :g}llng whole townships | ized the liquor interests in the Prov-- outright for lees. | ince, and asked liquor, beer and wing 1men for contributions to its organiza-- !tlon, provided a hectic hour in the House yesterday afternoon, and resulted in the Premier telling how the Gov-- -- ernment had dissociated itself from the letter writing, and in his making ipublic for the first time the story of, | the whole affair. R