Excerpt from Report of the Select Standing Committee on Forests, Waterways and Water-Powers, First Session, Eleventh Parliament, 1909

Mr. R. E. Young, Superintendent of Railway Lands, attended before the Committee.

The chairman. Young, this Committee has been formed for the purpose of considering the question of forests, waterways and water powers, and it was ordered at the last meeting that you Should be asked to make a statement giving the Committee, as far as possible, a recital as to what has been done in regard to the preparation Of information with the Object of preserving and conserving these great natural resources an I channels of communication. Before we proceed to hear Mr. Young, I would suggest to the Committee that some honourable gen'tleman move that we report to the House this afternoon asking to have the quorum of this Committee reduced from 10 to 5. If we do not do that we shall never get a meeting.

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