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planting in the future. In Scotland they had the real spirit of 

 forestry, and notwithstanding the impoverished times they had 

 come through they would go forward and, perhaps, continue to 

 do better than they did in England. The grants altogether 

 only amounted to about ^50,000, and he knew that Lord Lovat 

 and the Commission were doing their utmost to get the Govern- 

 ment to continue this expenditure. Last year they were thrown 

 into the grant scheme when it was practically too late, but he 

 believed if they were to get some indication of policy within the 

 next two or three weeks they would have much more than 

 7500 acres planted next year. There was one other thing he 

 would like to say on behalf of the Commission, and that was 

 that they were grateful for the co-operation and assistance they 

 had received from the members of this Society. In connection 

 with the census of woodlands in Scotland, they had asked a 

 large number of the members of this Society to take the 

 trouble of surveying various parishes throughout the country 

 for the Commission, and these correspondents had given the 

 greatest possible assistance. On the part of the Commission, 

 he would like to claim that their first desire was to be a 

 practical department, and their second desire was to dispense 

 with as much red tape as possible. If any member found that 

 there was too little of the practical and too much of the red tape, 

 he hoped they would report it either to headquarters or to the 

 office in Edinburgh. They all very much wished that they 

 would get the grant again, and that it might not be for one year, 

 but for a series of years, because everything connected with 

 forestry must be done over a period and not from year to 

 year. 



Sir Hugh Shaw-Stewart, Bart., Ardgowan, said that in 

 sending their motion to the Forestry Commission they were 

 really spurring a willing horse. The people into whose hands 

 they would like the motion to go were the Members of Parlia- 

 ment, and it would be worth the expense if a copy were sent 

 to each of them. It would be a real advantage if the grant 

 were made permanent. That could not be done without 

 changing the law. The grants to corporations or private 

 planters were hampered by an unfortunate tangle of clauses 

 which referred to repayment, and to get rid of these the Act of 

 Parliament would have to be altered. He believed the Forestry 

 Commission were endeavouring to get that alteration made, 



