DEPUTATION TO THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND. 49 



3. Deputation to the Secretary for Scotland. 



Report of Speeches, 



On August It, 1917, the Right Hon. Robert Munro, K.C., 

 M.P., received a deputation of the members of the Council 

 of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society in No. 6 Parliament 

 Square, Edinburgh. The deputation consisted of the following 

 gentlemen : — Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., President of the Society ; 

 Captain Sydney J. Gammell, of Countesswells, and Messrs W. 

 H. Massie and Chas. Buchanan, Vice-Presidents; Sir John 

 Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., Hon. Secretary ; Mr Robert Galloway, 

 S.S.C., Secretary; Messrs Robert Allan, Polkemmet ; G. Fraser, 

 Dalzell; G. P. Gordon, B.Sc, Glasgow Advisory Officer; A. 

 Hamilton, Glasgow ; P. Leslie, B.Sc, Aberdeen ; G. U. 

 Macdonald, Haystoun, Peebles ; J. H. Milne-Home, 

 Langholm; A. Morgan, Crieff; A. D. Richardson, Edinburgh; 

 Charles Robertson, Colstoun ; A. Spiers, Edinburgh ; James 

 Whitton, Glasgow — Councillors ; and Dr Campbell, member 

 of the Society from Aberdeen District. 



Mr Munro was accompanied by Dr Greig of the Board of 

 Agriculture, and by Dr A. W. Borthwick, Forestry Adviser to 

 the Board. 



Sir Andrew Agnew said: — "Sir, I have to thank you on 

 behalf of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society for consenting 

 to receive this deputation, which consists of the Council of our 

 Society. 



" We have been anxious to have an interview for some little 

 time so as to enlist your sympathy with the objects for which 

 our Society exists — the promotion of forestry in Scotland — and 

 your influence with the Government, in order to get on with 

 the work of afl'orestation which has been so long delayed and 

 which will be of such advantage to the country. We thought 

 the present was a suitable moment to ask for an interview. 



" The Committee which was specially appointed by the 

 Government to advise them upon the question of State 

 afforestation have presented their report, and important 

 decisions must soon be taken. When these decisions are taken, 

 we are very anxious that, through your influence, the claims 

 of Scotland may be duly considered and recognised. I am 

 bound to say that, in the past, they have been a good deal 

 overlooked. 



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