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"They also desire to urge the Government to select and 

 purchase, as soon as possible, supplementary areas in 

 Other districts of Scotland for further demonstrations areas. 



" At the same time they desire to express their great 

 disappointment that the promised Advisory and Research 

 Officers have not been appointed, and to ask that these 

 appointments be now made." 



2. Resolution re Department of Forestry in cotmection ivith 

 the Board of Agriculture for Scotland. 



"The members of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, in 

 Annual Meeting assembled, beg to remind the Government 

 of the promise made by Lord Pentland, when Secretary 

 for Scotland, and repeated by the present Secretary for 

 Scotland, that a Department of Forestry would be created 

 in connection with the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, 

 and to request that this promise be now given effect to ; 

 and in view of the obstacles raised by the Board of 

 Agriculture and the Development Commissioners to 

 making reasonable provision out of the funds under their 

 control for forestry in Scotland, they beg to ask that the 

 new Department of Forestry be provided with a separate 

 annual grant adequate for this purpose." 



The Secretary added that it was proposed that these resolutions 

 should be sent to the Secretary for Scotland, the Board of 

 Agriculture for Scotland, the Development Commissioners, the 

 Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 



The Chairman said : — " It would be of great interest to the 

 Society if some one associated with Ballogie would say a few 

 words on that subject. I think my brother is probably the only 

 member of the Advisory Committee in the room, and I am 

 quite sure he will give us an account of what has been done 

 with regard to that area." 



Sir John Stirling-Maxwell said: — "I did not come here pre- 

 pared to say anything, but as I happen to be the only member 

 of the Advisory Committee here, I will say a word. I had hoped 

 that Mr Munro Ferguson would have been here. He could 

 have spoken to you with far fuller knowledge and mastery of 

 the question than I can, because he has from the very beginning 

 studied these things, and he knows them from the earliest time. 



