FORESTRY AS A MEANS OF RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT. lOI 



13. Forestry as a Means of Relieving 

 Unemployment. 



The Forestry Commission are acting in conjunction with the 

 Forestry Sub-Committee of the Unemployment Committee of 

 the Cabinet, in providing work on State forest areas and in 

 assisting corporate bodies and woodland owners, by means of 

 grants, to undertake forestry operations which will provide 

 work in the neighbourhood of centres of unemployment. The 

 fund thus allocated, in the form of grants, will be distributed 

 in the form of wages to those employed on the specified opera- 

 tions for which a grant may be obtained. 



The grants from the Unemployment Fund are primarily and 

 solely intended for the relief of unemployment, and will not 

 by any means cover the whole costs of the operations specified. 

 It should, therefore, be clearly understood, that these grants are 

 not for the encouragement of forestry, but for the relief of the 

 unemployed. The scheme has, however, been devised with 

 such care that the result of the work done by the unemployed 

 will be of lasting benefit to the nation. 



The Forestry Scheme for the relief of unemployment is 

 explained by Lord Lovat in the following letter : — 



<^th November 1921. 



Sir, — May I be permitted, through the medium of your 

 columns, to make an appeal to woodland owners to assist the 

 Forestry Commission in utilising to the best advantage the 

 sum of ^'250,000 recently allotted to forestry from the 

 Unemployment Fund. 



Landowners and corporate bodies interested in forestry can 

 aid in the relief of unemployment in the following ways : — 



1. By availing themselves of the grants set out below, and 



undertaking forestry operations themselves. 



2. By leasing (in Scotland feuing) land to the Forestry 



Commission in the neighbourhood of centres of un- 

 employment. 



3. By either clearing scrub areas themselves or placing such 



areas at the disposal of the Local Authorities. 



The Forestry Sub-Committee of the Unemployment Committee 



