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important facts, and in many districts great activity prevails in 

 planting up catchment areas. 



Among the great corporations which have gone in for the 

 afforestation of its catchment areas, Liverpool has been actively 

 engaged in such work for the last lo years, and recently the 

 City Council has confirmed a great scheme of afforestation for 

 the Vyrnwy area, which has been agreed to after prolonged 

 negotiation between the Water Committee of the city and the 

 Development Commissioners. The Liverpool water engineer, 

 assisted by the head foresters of Vyrnwy and of Rivington,^ 

 made a special survey of the area, and reported that 4680 

 acres of land at Vyrnwy were suitable for planting, and after 

 subsequent correspondence with the Development Commissioners, 

 the Liverpool Water Committee in a recent report state : — 

 " It will be seen that, in this final offer, the Commissioners 

 have abandoned all their former proposals involving the pay- 

 ment of interest or compound interest, and that they simply 

 propose to make a grant to the Corporation representing the 

 full expenditure necessary for planting an area of approximately 

 5000 acres, on condition that, in return for the advance, the 

 Corporation enter into an arrangement for the payment to the 

 Development Fund of the value of one-half of the produce 

 utilised or sold from the area afforested by means of the money 

 advanced." 



In connection with the above we understand that the terms 

 proposed still await the approval of the Treasury. 



Deer Forests and Sporting Lands in Scotland. 



A Parliamentary return (538), moved for by Mr Dundas 

 White, and recently issued, gives particulars of all deer forests 

 and lands exclusively devoted to sport in the various counties 

 of Scotland as at the coming into operation of the Small 

 Landholders (Scotland) Act, 191 1, according to the valuation 

 roll for the year 1911-12. Information was called for under 

 the following headings : — County ; name of deer forest or other 

 subject ; proprietor ; total acreage ; greatest altitude above 



* Liverpool Corporation own two catchment areas, one of 1000 acres at 

 Rivington, in S.-W. Lancashire, the other of 23,000 acres at Vyrnwy, in 

 Montgomeryshire. 



