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readily recommended the grant, as they consider that the 

 preparation of afforestation schemes is of urgent national 

 importance. 



" An application was received from the Board of Agriculture 

 for a grant in aid of the capital cost and maintenance charges 

 of a proposed School of Forestry in Central Scotland. The 

 Commissioners were sympathetic with the proposal, but under 

 existing circumstances were not prepared to recommend the 

 advance. In order that they might be in a position to consider 

 the scheme in definite shape they asked the Board to inform 

 them when the locality for the school had been provisionally 

 chosen, and the Board was in a position to give further particulars 

 of the scheme. 



4. Ireland. 



•' The following grants were recommended : — 



"(1) ^1517 for the year 1918-19 to meet the salaries and 

 expenses of the Department of Agriculture's central forestry 

 staff, whose appointment was made in connection with work 

 financed from the Development Fund. 



"(2) ^1720 for the year 1918-19 to meet the cost of forestry 

 work in Ireland financed from the Development Fund, and 

 concentrated at the following three areas, viz. Ballyhoura, 

 Co. Cork ; Slieve Bloom, Queen's County ; and Aughrim- 

 Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. 



"(3) £ lo 9 t0 m eet excess expenditure during 1915-16 on 

 the working of the Slieve Bloom and Glendalough-Aughrim 

 afforestation areas. 



"(4) j£> lo ° f° r tne expenses during 1917-18 of a Forestry 

 Inspector from the Department whilst engaged on a joint survey 

 with officers from the English and Scotch Boards of Agriculture. 

 The primary object of the survey party, whose purpose was 

 to work in selected areas in the United Kingdom, was to 

 standardise methods of survey so far as this could be effected 

 by associating Forestry Officers from the three Departments of 

 Agriculture in the same survey, and at the same time to map 

 out a considerable area of land suitable for afforestation." 



