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scheme should be self-supporting. The financial return depends 

 on prices, wages, bank rates, etc., which are difficult to forecast. 

 Forests are a national necessity ; the country must have them, 

 even though they yield less than the current rate of interest on 

 the capital invested. The whole sum involved is less than half 

 the direct loss incurred during the years 191 5 and 1916 through 

 dependence on imported timber. 



"(11) The above proposals are framed in the interest of 

 national safety, which requires that more timber should be 

 grown in the British Isles. There remains a further question. 

 The United Kingdom derives more than half its imported timber 

 from virgin forests in foreign countries, which are steadily being 

 depleted. Canada contains the only large reserves within the 

 Empire. Unless arrangements can be made with the Dominion 

 Government for the effectual conservation of these reserves, it is 

 inevitable that provision should be made within the British Isles 

 on a far larger scale than is here proposed for purposes of 

 defence. We consider that this question should be taken up at 

 once with the Dominion Government." 



The Report is published by H.M. Stationery Ofifice at the price of is., and 

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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



The Great War. 



The Society's Roll of Honour. 



Sixth List.^ 



Auchterlonie, Alexander, Weekley, Kettering. A.S.C. 

 Blair, James Hunter, younger of Blairquhan. 3rd Seaforth 



Highlanders. 

 Brunton, James, Horsley, near Winchester. Lance-Corporal, 



2/4th Hants Regiment. 

 Curr, James, Prestonkirk. K.O.S.B. 

 Devvar, Major H. R., Beaufort. Lovat Scouts. 

 Forbes, A. H., Bute Estate's Office, Cardiff. 

 MuNRo, George, of Kergord. Captain, R.A.M.C. 



^ For First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Lists see Vol. xxix. p. 192, 

 Vol. XXX. pp. 47 and 129, and Vol. xxxi. pp. 66 and 1 68, respectively. 

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