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" In regard to schools there are now two schools for training 

 working foresters in Scotland, one at Birnam for disabled 

 ex-service men, and the other at Beaufort to which thirteen men 

 were admitted last summer. A similar number will be admitted 

 this summer. There will be a three-year course, and this 

 school should turn out a dozen men each year. The question 

 of establishing further schools depends really on the demand. 



"The Consultative Committee is actively engaged and the 

 Society is well represented on it. Valuable suggestions have 

 been forthcoming from this Committee with regard to grants 

 schemes, the assessment of Income Tax, Railway Rates as 

 affecting forestry development, and many other questions. 

 The last question submitted to them was the question of 

 collecting forestry statistics, a very difficult matter which the 

 Commission and the Consultative Committee have under 

 consideration at this moment, and one in which I think it is 

 more than likely that the members of this Society will be asked 

 to give assistance. 



"I think those are all the points I have to mention. I would 

 like to say generally that Lord Lovat is devoting the whole of 

 his great energies to this work and the whole of his time, and I 

 would like also to say that every day it becomes more certain 

 that in Mr Sutherland, who is not here to-day, we have the ideal 

 Executive Officer in Scotland. I have nothing else to say 

 except that the Commission recognise that it has had the most 

 generous support from everyone outside, and we have had 

 nothing but help from everyone to whom we have applied so 

 far, and for that we are most grateful. I have not mentioned 

 the area actually planted. Last year the area planted was 

 1500 acres which lay really outside the programme, but 

 things were far enough forward to admit of that beginning. 

 About 500 acres of that are in Scotland. This year the 

 planting programme is 4500 acres, of which about 1500 are in 

 Scotland. By the year 1925 the planting programme will be 

 18,000 acres in the United Kingdom. Of course I am not 

 claiming credit for anything the Commission have done, because 

 you will see the real difficulties all lie ahead of us." 



Tenant-Farmers — Motion by Mr Richardson. 



Mr Richardson moved that the word "Tenant-farmers" in 

 Class 3 of Laws III. and VI. be transferred to Class 2, and 



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