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figure not over 60 per cent., on account of the fact that a great 

 deal of plant is required and a great deal of material has to be 

 purchased for most of these schemes. In forestry, the amount 

 of plant is negligible, and 70 to 80 per cent, goes in labour, 

 which gives a better return than anything else, because the local 

 authority or the employer puts in such a large amount of money 

 of his own in order to gain the grant. Forestry employment is 

 only suitable for rural labour, not for bringing large masses from 

 the towns to work in the woods ; but as regards rural labour, in 

 the Cabinet Sub-Committee in which I am working, there is no 

 scheme which gives better results than we get out of these 

 grant schemes. 



" I would like also to say in connection with what your 

 Chairman brought forward, that on the question of education, 

 Mr Sutherland and Dr Borthwick are hoping to arrange for 

 a course of lectures to teachers and schoolmasters at their 

 meeting in Inverness this year during the holidays, and it is 

 also hoped that they will be able to visit the local school there, 

 and have access to the woods and get the information which 

 they would like. 1 think in that way we shall be able to 

 co-operate along the lines which you have inaugurated in 

 getting the local people interested in forestry. 



" I would like, on behalf of the whole Commissioners, to thank 

 your Society for the keen interest which you have taken in our 

 work. In getting anything like an unemployment scheme going, 

 it does require a lot of propaganda, a lot of circularising, and 

 answering questions, and Mr Galloway and his staff have helped 

 us most enormously in this respect. If it had not been for the 

 assistance we have had from the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society, and the English Society, and the Factors' and Surveyors' 

 Societies, we should have been quite unable to have got what 

 we have done now, some eighteen corporate bodies undertaking 

 forestry schemes, and I think now rather over 300 private 

 forestry schemes working throughout the country. That, of 

 course, has done a great deal for unemployment, because we 

 have got them working in something like 450 centres, which 

 really means a great help in meeting rural unemployment which 

 is so prevalent at the present time." 



The Chairman. — " We thank Lord Lovat for all he has done, 

 and also for the clear way in which he has put the position 



