30 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Miss Macdonald. — " I do not think there is anything to prevent 

 girls working nine or ten hours a day if they are physically 

 Strong." 



Sir John Stirling-Maxwell. — " It would be rather interesting 

 to know whether any training is required." 



Miss Macdonald. — " At the tree planting instruction was 

 given to the workers who were paid for three weeks by the 

 Board of Agriculture for Scotland. For the timber peeling 

 they were not trained. The girls we had for timber peeling 

 who were not under National Service were paid by the employer 

 from the beginning, but I think in any forestry work it would 

 be advisable to have them trained for the first three weeks." 



Sir John Stirling-Maxwell. — "Would you think training better 

 by the employer or at a separate centre ? " 



Miss Macdonald. — " We find it better to have them trained 

 where they are to work, if it can be arranged. We have not had 

 any girls thinning light trees." 



A general discussion then took place on the various subjects 

 raised in the addresses. 



Mr Andrew Hamilton, Glasgow, said : — " I am very glad we 

 have had this meeting on the West Coast. Although we have 

 a large meeting to-day, we may have a bigger meeting later on. 

 When we consider that Glasgow Fair begins to-morrow, I am 

 afraid a good many people are out of town. I much appreciate Mr 

 Carlow's way of putting it that we have to look for a very much 

 bigger supply of pit-prop timber from this country than we have 

 ever done, if we are going to maintain our position for a longer 

 time after any outbreak of hostilities, or from any other stoppage 

 of supplies. Also it has to be kept in mind, I think, that in the 

 Baltic as well as other countries, forests are being cut much 

 farther back from the sea and loading ports, and we will not 

 have anything like the same conditions in the future as we 

 have had in the past. Therefore it behoves us to look at this 

 question not in any narrow-minded way. We come back to 

 the question of jQ s. d., and we have in this war seen that 

 everything cannot be done with ^ s. d. There are economic 

 and national questions which are outside the cash column ; and 

 in that respect we have got, to my mind, to look around for a 

 certain form of education, so that the people in the country 

 will recognise forestry as a national necessity as well as a 

 particular necessity, and, as our President and a good many 



