I 6 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



a.d. 1919 planting or management of any woods or forests belong- 



ing to any persons, including woods and forests under 

 the management of the Commissioners of Woods or 

 under the control of any Government Department, or 

 belonging to any local authority : 

 (/) Establish and carry on or aid in the establishment and 



carrying on of woodland industries : 

 (g) Undertake the collection, preparation, publication and 

 distribution of statistics relating to forestry, and pro- 

 mote and develop instruction and training in forestry 

 by establishing or aiding schools or other educational 

 institutions, or in such other manner as they think fit : 

 (k) Make or aid in making such inquiries, experiments and 

 research, and collect or aid in collecting such informa- 

 tion, as they may think important for the purpose of 

 promoting forestry and the teaching of forestry, and 

 publish or otherwise take steps to make known the 

 results of such inquiries, experiments or research and 

 to disseminate such information : 

 (*) Make or aid in making such inquiries as they think 

 necessary for the purpose of securing an adequate 

 supply of timber in the United Kingdom and promoting 

 the production of timber in His Majesty's dominions : 

 Provided that any advance by way of a grant under this 

 section shall be subject to the condition that any profits resulting 

 from the operations in respect of which the grant was made 

 shall, after allowing for a return to the owner of four per cent, 

 compound interest on the cost incurred by him (exclusive of the 

 amount of the grant), be charged with the repayment to the 

 forestry fund of the amount of the grant together with compound 

 interest at four per cent. 



Any question arising between the Commissioners and the 

 owner with respect to the amount of any repayment under this 

 proviso shall, in default of agreement, be decided by a person 

 nominated by the President of the Surveyors' Institution, and, for 

 the purposes of this proviso, the expression "owner" means the 

 person for the time being entitled to the profits on the operations 

 in respect of which the grant was made : Provided also that, 

 before acquiring any land under this Act and before selling or 

 otherwise disposing of any land so acquired, but not required 

 by them for the purposes of this Act, the Commissioners shall 



