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demonstration, the Development Commissioners are prepared 

 to recommend loans on the general principle that repayment 

 commences so soon as the work becomes remunerative, or at 

 some date to be fixed in reference to the method of afforestation 

 to be followed in any particular case. 



2. Advisory Committee on Forestry for Scotland. 



The Secretary for Scotland has appointed a Committee to 

 advise the Board of Agriculture for Scotland in matters relating 

 to forestry. 



The following gentlemen have accepted the invitation to 

 serve on this Advisory Committee : — Mr John D. Sutherland 

 (Chairman): The Right Hon. Lord Lovat, D.S.O. : The Right 

 Hon. R. C. Munro Ferguson, M.P. ; Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, 

 Bart.: Sir W. S. Haldane ; Mr J. M. Henderson, M.P. ; Mr 

 R. H. X. Sellar. 



3. Technical Advice for Private Owners. 



In connection with the grant from the Development Fund in 

 respect of provision of technical advice in forestry, we under- 

 stand that the whole of England and Wales has been divided 

 into five districts, of which the following institutions are the 

 advising centres, viz. : — 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne . North of England. 



Bangor .... Cheshire, Salop and Wales, 



except Glamorgan. 

 Oxford .... Part of Midlands and South of 



England. 

 Cambridge . . . Eastern Counties and part of 



Midlands. 

 Cirencester . . . South-west and West of 



England and Glamorgan. 



Professor Story, who becomes Technical Adviser at the 

 Bangor centre, retains his professorship, and Mr Thomson 

 Thomson has been appointed assistant lecturer under him at 

 the University College of North Wales. 



Mr J. F. Annand, lecturer in forestry at the Armstrono- 

 College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and manager of the Crown 

 woods at Chopwell, has been appointed Technical Adviser for 



