Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the use and non-use of social media (SM) by North American hotels for human resource (HR) activities. Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory study used an online survey and a sampling frame of 1,711 North American hotels with 300 or more rooms, excluding economy properties. With a response rate of 17.1 per cent and a defined population, data were weighted to reflect the midscale, upscale and luxury market classes. Findings – Slightly more than half of North American hotels use SM for HR activities. Higher service level hotels are related to SM HR use generally; midscale properties report higher usage for internal communication. Use of SM in hotel HR is more focused on marketing versus recruitment activities. Research limitations/implications – The generalizability and, therefore, implications are limited to North American hotels, midscale or higher with 300 or more rooms. Future research should complement this broad-based study by delving more deeply into rationale for HR communication over hiring functions for SM and its overall adoption for HR in the hospitality industry. Practical implications – This study provides an understanding of how SM is being used and its perceived usefulness across a variety of HR activities. The findings will inform the application of SM for hotel HR purposes. Originality/value – This is the first empirical study about SM and HR practices in the North American hotel industry.

Tht: earliest legislative enactment in British Columbia dealing with forest fires was the Bush Fire Act of 1874. The Act recognized two condi. tions requiring correction, first, igniting in any forest or woods, being the property of any other person or of the Crown, any inflammable material and leaving the same before being thoroughly extinguished, and second, when by gross carelessness or negligence, any person permitted a fire to escape from his own property and damage adjoining property or timber. The Act provided a penalty up to $100 or imprisonment up to three months. No provision was made for dealing with the fires themselves. Application of the Act in any district followed a petition to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council UP: two*thirds of the settlers of such district.By the year 1888 the necessity fer a staff to carry out fire control became apparent and the Land Act of that year gave the Commission of Lands and Works power to appoint, with the approval of the Lieutenant.Governor in Council, such persons as he considered necessary to carry out the provisions of the existing legislation. Fire Wardens were appointed under this auth. ority and additions were made to the staff from year to year until 1911, when this system reached its maximum development, there were throughout the Province two Supervisors, one Assistant Supervisor, ten Divisional Fire Wardens and 110 District Fire Wardens. This was purely a protection force azxd dealt only with fires and the reduction of hazards from logging or other swrces of forest debris. Timber Administration was carried out by the Timber Inspector and a small staff. The Forest Protection staff and fire* fkghting costs were paid by a direct vote by the Legislature from Consoli. dated Revenue. For the year ending March 31st, 1912, the last year of this system, the amount voted was $150,000.It is difficult to obtain details of the activities of the early Fire Wardens, but as their districts were large, their number comparatively small and their transportation facilities primitive, patrol must have been far from intensive and control measures on fires must have, in most cases, been undertaken only after fires had been burning for some time.The Annual Report for 1911 sums up the inadequacy of the system by ~eferring to the Wardens as "wandering patrolmen who were hard to find when wanted in an emergency."One of the Divisional Fire Wardens located at Nelson told me that on one occasion when a fire was reported to him, he sent for a famous fire fighter of the times who was to report to him ready to go out and take charge of the fire. He came presently and was equipped with a blanket and an umbrella. The Forestry Chronicle Downloaded from pubs.cif-ifc.org by 44.224.250.200 on 05/04/21

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HE British Colunlbia Forest Service, as well as the logging operators, has T felt for some time that there is room for improvement in foresthrc pumps.Since pumps were first used in B.C. there has been steady progress in reducing weight and increasing c;~pacities of these pumps, until it is feared that dependability has been sacrificed to portability. Certainly in some of the later developments, nothing more could be desired in the matter of weight when complete units are on the market as light as 40 lbs.Attention has recently been directed to the possibilities of utilizing engines of the Austin type. These engines have been altered for marine or electrical service and are available without starter or generator, but with high,tension magneto and governor added. This-makes an ideal power plant, weighing i 3 i lbs., and is just as dependable as the Austin car.The Forest Service, starting with one of these engines, canvassed the pump manufacturers of England and America for a stock pump with the following specifications :Weight not over 30 lbs. Speed about 2,200 R.P.M. Capacity 50 Imperial gallons per minute. Working pressure 170 lbs. normal at pump. Construction to be other than "gear." N o pump embodying all these requirements, or near it, could be obtained. Some marlufacturers offered to design a pump to our order. Advantage was taken of one such offer in Vancouver, and after thorough discussion of the problem, a 4,stage centrifugal pump with enclosed impellors was built. This pump of aluminum alloy construction, weight, with coupling, 43 lbs. The engine and pump were mounted on a cast aluminum base specially designed for the purpose, and a new pump was ready for test.Although the real test of a season on actual fires is yet to come, this pump has been operated for about 25 hours to date, and no trouble of any kind, either in starting or running, has occurred. Results attained appear to have justified our experiment, T o those of us who have been on fires where the common kinds of fire pumps were used, there was great satisfaction in seeing two vigorous streams from two half4nch nozzles at the same time, shooting water out 125 or more feet from the nozzles. To those who have played the accustomed 3 18 in. stream on a firc, there was a real thrill in bracing against the reaction of a The Forestry Chronicle Downloaded from pubs.cif-ifc.org by 54.191.190.102 on 05/12/18For personal use only.