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advise the Commissioners to adopt the course I have indicated 

 SO as to avoid delay as far as possible. 



Perhaps I should say that the "bonus or percentage" 

 mentioned in paragraph 2 of my previous letter, refers to the 

 first rotation and not to subsequent rotations only, as your letter 

 would appear to indicate. — I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, 



R. Galloway. 



Sir S. Eardlev Wilmot. 



The Warren, Bramley, 



Surrey, y/hjutte 1916. 

 3. Dear GALLO^VAY, 



Thanks for your letter of 5th June. It was precisely with the 

 object of saving valuable time that my letter of 31st May was 

 addressed to you. The meeting of 8th April was, as you state, 

 informal, and the Commissioners prefer to regard the resulting 

 correspondence in the same light, or at most as semi-official, for 

 the reason that though they are grateful for the valuable 

 information and advice which the R.S.A.S. and other private 

 societies may present to them, the actual settlement of "the 

 broad principles on which the Commissioners' help in financing 

 schemes of afforestation on leased land may be obtained " must 

 rest between the Commissioners and the Government Depart- 

 ments concerned. 



Assuming this basis of correspondence, I turn to the other 

 items in your letter of 14th April, on which you appear to desire 

 more information. 



Your No. I deals with the purchase of land, which is not 

 referred to in my letter of 31st May, for the reason that land 

 purchase is not contemplated at this time, and is therefore out- 

 side the scope of this correspondence. 



Your No. 2 deals with land, rental, and bonus, and I had 

 hoped to have made it clear that both appear to me to be 

 acceptable as a basis of schemes to be formulated. In reference 

 to the final paragraph of your letter of 5th June, I must point 

 out that the bonus claimed for "afforestation value " could not 

 be claimed if the owner resumed the land after the close of the 

 first rotation, because he would be receiving "afforestation 

 value" in the improvement of the resumed land. The bonus 

 would fall due only at the commencement of each succeeding 

 rotation. 



