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though he thoroughly appreciated the generosity that had 
prompted the gift, and was sure that it would be very useful, it 
was at such a distance from Bangor University that the students 
could not get sufficient opportunities of going to visit it, and he 
asked that more instructional areas should be provided. 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer thanked the deputation for 
their attendance and for the information they had given him. 
He assured them that the Government looked upon the subject 
of forestry with sympathy, and that the question of a special 
authority or Government department for forestry would receive 
his careful attention. He pointed out that facilities for instruc- 
tion were given at Oxford University, at the Forest of Dean, at: 
Bangor University, at Edinburgh University, and at Glasgow 
and Aberdeen; that the Crown woods at High Meadows and 
Alice Holt had been put upon a working-plan, and that the 
Office of Woods and Forests were looking for a forest area in 
Scotland, but had not yet been able to find a suitable place. 
Large sums of money had been mentioned by Mr Ferguson, 
who had added that they were the minimum sums required 
to carry out the Report of the Departmental Committee of 1902, 
but there were difficulties in providing these sums out of the 
National Treasury. The Government looked with sympathy on 
schemes for preventing the exodus of the country population to 
the towns, and he promised that the whole matter should have 
his careful attention. 
Sir Herbert Maxwell thanked the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
for his patience in listening to the deputation, and added that 
they were not asking for a dole for forestry, but for a grant to 
enable the country to undertake a business that was remunera- 
tive in other countries, and which he believed would, in the 
future, be remunerative in Great Britain also. 
