. Canadian forest industries July-December 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 49 Another Lumber Legislator Passes Many friends in the lumber trade will learn with regret of the death of Auguste T. Leger, , for Kent County, who passed away recently at Campbellton, N. B. He was 71 years of age and had rep- resented Kent in the Federal House since 1917. Mr. Leger who carried on a lumber business for many years,. The late Auguste T. Leger, M. P. for Kent County, N. B. had an active and varied career. For a long pe
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 49 Another Lumber Legislator Passes Many friends in the lumber trade will learn with regret of the death of Auguste T. Leger, , for Kent County, who passed away recently at Campbellton, N. B. He was 71 years of age and had rep- resented Kent in the Federal House since 1917. Mr. Leger who carried on a lumber business for many years,. The late Auguste T. Leger, M. P. for Kent County, N. B. had an active and varied career. For a long period he was postmaster at St. Louis and was later high sherriff for the County of Kent which post he filled acceptably until 1908. He was born in Cocagne, N. B., on January 4th 1852 and was of Acadian and French-Canadian ex- traction. He fought many political fights in the Liberal cause and although defeated several times, always conducted: a fair-minded and honorable campaign. Budget of Briefs from Busy East The Fraser Companies, Ltd., are not expected to cut heavily on their own holdings, absorbing instead the cuts of burned timber from other holdings. At Three Brooks the manufacture of some 50,000 hardwood ties will be undertaken, and there is a possibility that a similar order may be filled. G. F. Burden, of the chief scalers branch of the Department of Lands and Mines recently returned home after an official tour, which included Grand Falls, the Tobique and other sections of the province. He said that the labor problem in these sections is working itself out as many farmers are joining the crews. The general impression in the sections that he visited was that the winter's operations in the woods would be fairly extensive. According to present predictions the lumber cut on the Tobique this season will be twenty million feet for the Stetson, Cutler firm alone. It is expected that practically all of this cut will be absorbed by the Fraser Companies, Ltd., and will consist chi
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