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themselves, travel about the country looking at woods, and they 

 have their information brought together in a way probably that 

 has never been done before, and we are all of us satisfied that 

 the destruction of what we might call economic plantations, 

 which can yield results, has, especially in the industrial areas, 

 gone very much further than people imagine. Of the 3,000,000 

 acres in Great Britain, a very large percentage is quite 

 unsaleable, being oak coppice, birch scrub, and wood used for 

 amenity and not for commercial purposes. Under this head I 

 would like to say that we hope by 1924-25 to get the first census 

 of woodlands which has ever been obtained in this country. 

 Under Mr Sutherland in Scotland this work is going on. He 

 has appointed forty to fifty local correspondents, and we are 

 getting out in a simple schedule the exact particulars of every 

 wood, and we hope certainly by the end of 1925 that we shall 

 be able to inform those who are interested as to the exact 

 position, dividing the woods, in the first place, into productive 

 and economic or potentially productive and non-productive wood, 

 with this economic or productive wood divided into its various 

 ages and classes. Mr Sutherland has already done something 

 like one hundred parishes, and he hopes in about eighteen 

 months to have the whole Scottish survey done. 



" I would like to insist on this point, that this Unemployment 

 Grant by getting a large area planted will do a very valuable 

 work for the country. In Scotland, as I have already said, there 

 will be either planted or prepared for planting something like 

 15,000 acres, and the total for Great Britain will probably be 

 about 25,000 acres. That, added to the 15,000 acres already 

 done by the State, shows you that there are considerable forestry 

 operations going on. On the subject of the whole question of 

 unemployment I can assure the foresters, and the public also, 

 that under no scheme do they get better value for their money 

 than out of these grant schemes. The figures are interesting. 

 There will be given in grants up to 14th January ^37,089 for 

 Scotland, and that will mean a total expenditure of ^88,000, of 

 which you may reckon 75 or 80 per cent, represents labour. 

 You get an efficiency figure rather over 220 per cent. In 

 England the figures are even more significant. There a short 

 time ago I think ;^io,ooo of grant from the State brought in 

 ^28,000 of labour. The ordinary efficiency figure for most of 

 the Development Schemes, roads and the rest, show an efficiency 



