There was but a smal] number of members who attended the meeting of the Canadian Association of China which was held on Wednesday afternoon at the office of Dr. J. WW.
Ross, Canadian Trade Commissioner.
Previous to an interesting paper by Dr, D. MacGillivray, chairman of the Association, on "Conservation in Canada," there was a business meeting. It was announced that the Shanghai Association has been affiliated with and accepted as a member of the Canadian Clubs "f Canada. This is the first Canadian Club, outside those in the other parts of the British Empire, that has ever been established and received official recognition. was decided to hold the next meeting about the middle of January, when it is hoped that there will be a larger attendance than yesterday, which was the first meeting this term. It is the intention of the officers of the Association to have papers read on Canada and Canadian subjects at various meetings in_the future.
Dr. McGillivray said in part:
It is an excellent thing on patriotic platform to speak about the inexhaustible resources of our country, but in the year 1907, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt and others, like Mr. Pinchot, awoke to the fact that the resources of duy country, however rich, are not really inexhaustible, and it was quite possible for the nation to be wasting them at such a rate that within measurable time these resources would become exhausted. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt is regarded as the great originator of the movement for national conservation. He found, for example, that the great lumber and pulp companies were getting hold of immense tracts of land for mere song, and were, of course, ex-plaiting them for their own private advantage. He introduced certain legislation which set. aside large tracts as national parks. Canada, in the year 1910, followed his lead by passing a Conservation Act, the object of which was the preserva tion of our national resources, and their economic use. Since that time this Act has been enforced and a large body of experts form a Commission of Conservation, which issues @ report from time to time.
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We, here in China, are accustomed, on the one hand to hear that the Chinese are a most economical people, and on the other hand to learn that their forests, for example, have been ruthlessly destroyed, with the result that the mountains are denuded of vegetation, the rains fall, and reach the river beds with terrific rapidity, so much that
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