. Canadian forest industries July-December 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 53 Ontario Retailers Prepare for Annual Meet Directors of Association Expect Record Attend- ance at Provincial Gathering to be Held in Toronto in January.—Instructive Programme and Live Topics will be Featured. In preparation for the annual convention the directors of the Ontario Retail Lumber Dealers' Association held a meeting on De- cember 6th at the Board of Trade Rooms, Toronto. K. J. Shirton, president of the , presided.


. Canadian forest industries July-December 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 53 Ontario Retailers Prepare for Annual Meet Directors of Association Expect Record Attend- ance at Provincial Gathering to be Held in Toronto in January.—Instructive Programme and Live Topics will be Featured. In preparation for the annual convention the directors of the Ontario Retail Lumber Dealers' Association held a meeting on De- cember 6th at the Board of Trade Rooms, Toronto. K. J. Shirton, president of the , presided. The directors' conference took up both the morning and the afternoon. Judging from the pro- gramme finally adopted the gathering in Toronto on Jan. 15th, 16th and 17th will be the most profitable and entertaining that the Asso- ciation has yet attempted. It only needs now the (backing of the retailers themselves to make the convention "the biggest" from both a ibusiness and social standpoint. President Shirton, said he had enjoyed every moment serving the association during the past year and was looking forward with interest to the coming gathering at the King Edward, Hotel, Toronto. After Secretary Boultbee gave the business report, the chairman called upon J. B. Mackenzie as chairman of theReclistribution of Dis- tricts Committee, to give his report. Mr. Mackenzie found, in study- ing the question of redistribution that the Stratford district was the only section which called for any extensive redistribution of territory. He reported that the dealers in Stratford and district were strongly in favor of adding the counties of Bruce, Huron and Perth. M. R. Bogart, of Chatham, stated the counties mentioned had been allotted to the South Western Branch but that these countries had natural transportation connections into the Stratford district, and it would be a profitable change for the dealers in those counties. At the directors' meeting on the morning of the first da


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