l8 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



afforesting water-catchment areas, whether by means of loan or 

 under a profit-sharing scheme, are as follows : — 



(i) The local authority shall cause to be prepared a working- 

 plan regulating the operations proposed in detail. The 

 plan shall be submitted for approval to the Develop- 

 ment Commissioners and the Government Department 

 concerned (for England and Wales, the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries ; for Scotland, the Board of 

 Agriculture for Scotland ; and for Ireland, the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and Technical Instruction), who 

 may require such modifications as seem to them 

 desirable. No departure from its provisions after a 

 working-plan is sanctioned shall be allowed without 

 the approval of the Commissioners and the Government 

 Department concerned. 



(2) The working-plan shall provide, with due regard to 

 economy and efficiency, for possible variations in the 

 extent of the operations prescribed from year to year. 

 In availing itself of such variations, the local authority 

 shall be governed by the effect of the afforestation 

 works on employment, and shall arrange the variations 

 in relation to the state of the labour market and to the 

 aggregate demand for labour in the United Kingdom, 

 as reflected in the Board of Trade's index number of 

 unemployment, or otherwise. 



•(3) The local authority shall keep such accounts of the 

 expenditure on and revenue from the area as the 

 Treasury or the Government Department concerned 

 may require. 



(4) If required by the Treasury, the Commissioners, or the 



Government Department concerned, the area shall be 

 made available for purposes of research, education, 

 and demonstration. 



(5) The accounts, and the planting and other operations 



carried out on the area, shall be open at all times to 

 inspection by representatives of the Commissioners or 

 of the Government Department concerned. 



(iii.) England and Wales. 



A grant of ;!^57oo was made to the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries for the financial year ending 31st March 1913, to 

 •enable the Department to continue forestry work inaugurated by 

 means of the Development Fund in the previous year. 



Of the total sum, ^2500 goes to provide for the salaries and 

 travelling expenses of an advisory officer at each of five centres — 

 Oxford, Cambridge, Cirencester, Bangor, and Newcastle ; ^500 

 is granted to Oxford, ;^5oo to Cambridge, and ^200 to other 

 institutions for research; ^j^iooo is spent on minor forestry 



