REPORT OF GENERAL MEETING. 3 1 



of US have been trying to do — we say we must interest 

 to some extent the schools, and make the schools and the 

 children the centre of forestry education throughout the country 

 districts, for a gradual development of an industry which shall 

 be commensurate with the necessities of the case. That is why 

 I feel very strongly that we have to get at the education in the 

 country. Round every school there should be forestry classes 

 and a little forestry area. I do not think we will ever make 

 much progress unless we make this a point in our educational 

 system. We have in England and Scotland small school gardens. 

 They have their crops, and at the end of the year these are 

 cut down, but trees grow up during the pupils' whole time at 

 school. 1 feel that in this way we could combine with 

 education healthful and profitable labour, a labour which will 

 be continuously developing from a small amount up to some- 

 thing very much larger, and when we get this afforestation we 

 shall have growing round it other industries and other uses for 

 the by-products of the forest that we have not yet touched." 



Dr Borthwick, Edinburgh, said : — " What we as a Society 

 would like to see would be some active support of silviculture 

 by the railway and mining industries. I venture to suggest they 

 might consider the possibility of taking some practical steps to 

 ensure the afforestation of as much ground as possible, and in as 

 suitable a position as possible, in order that pit-wood might be 

 there as a reserve in the case of future necessities, without 

 relying as we have done in the past on private individuals or 

 upon the State. The combination of both is necessary. I think 

 it would be in the interests of those big industries to do some- 

 thing practical to help." 



Mr Broom, timber merchant, said : — " I would like to ask Mr 

 Carlow a question. In your remarks, Mr Carlow, you said the 

 mine-owners were always willing to consider home-grown timber, 

 provided it could be produced as good and as cheap as wood 

 from Norway, Sweden, and other places. I think we are all 

 agreed that Scottish oak can compete very well with anything 

 that can be grown in America. For waggon building I should 

 say that our home-grown oak is very much superior, and I would 

 like to ask if Mr Carlow would not consider — of course we 

 cannot produce it at the price in the meantime — but it is a 

 question for the mine-owners to consider — whether it is not 

 advisable for them to extend their price a little further and 



