THE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION AND FORESTRY. 9 



application is sent in for the annual funds required 

 for the planting and development of the land. 

 (/) That in order efficiently to carry out a scheme of State 

 afforestation, which may in the future admit of con- 

 siderable development, it is necessary that prepara- 

 tions should be commenced at once to provide a 

 competent staff, both for executive and research 

 work. 

 (g) That in order to encourage afforestation by private 

 owners, the facilities for advice and other assistance 

 which would be available in a research institute and 

 demonstration area (for which purposes the existing 

 Avondale Forestry School is admirably suited), should 

 be placed at the service of landowners free of cost ; 

 and that in cases where private owners are desirous 

 of having forestry schemes prepared by the Irish 

 Department, the staff of the institute should be 

 authorised to report as to the suitability or otherwise 

 of their estates for this purpose, free of cost, and 

 regularly to inspect the plantation as long as the 

 advice given is being followed. 

 On the 24th November 1910, the Commissioners recom- 

 mended to the Treasury that advances not exceeding ;j^2 5,000 

 in all be made to the Department, as they may from time to 

 time be required, for the purchase of certain areas in South 

 Ireland on the following conditions : — 



(a) That the advances be by way of loan, not repay- 

 able and bearing no interest for thirty years ; the 

 question of requiring interest and provision for 

 repayment to be further considered at the end of 

 that period. 

 (^).That not more than the present value be paid for the 

 land, having regard, as far as practicable, to its 

 market value at the time, /.<?., that save in very 

 special circumstances not more be paid than the 

 market value of the land at the time of purchase. 



[c) That the land be free of tenant right, or other conditions 



that might prevent it from being planted. 



(d) That following on the purchase of any area, a scheme 



of management, i.e. a working - plan, should be 

 prepared, prescribing for its treatment over the whole 



