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been successful and would very probably have lasting results. 

 The War Office had been communicated with regarding the 

 employment of soldiers discharged as unfit for further service 

 with the colours, and, as suggested by the War Office, this 

 matter was now being taken up with the Labour Exchanges. 



Mr J. H. DoDS, factor, Novar, said that he had six fisher girls 

 engaged on forestry work at Novar, and that they were giving 

 every satisfaction. The result had been that some women in 

 the district had turned out who were unwilling to undertake this 

 work before. At Raith six or eight women were working, and 

 they, too, were giving satisfaction to the head forester. It 

 happened that the chauffeur's house was empty and the women 

 were lodged there. He suggested that, when the war was over, 

 the tin huts at present occupied by soldiers might be 

 handed over for housing required in connection with schemes 

 of afforestation. 



Camps Afforestation Scheme, 

 Employment' of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors. 



Sir John Stirling-Maxwell mentioned that the District 

 Committee of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire asked the Council 

 to assist them, as far as possible, in the scheme of afforestation 

 which they had undertaken in connection with their new water 

 supply at Camps in Lanarkshire, and had invited them to send 

 some members to look over the ground with them. Mr Galloway, 

 Mr Macdonald, Mr Gordon and he accordingly visited the 

 nurseries and buildings at Hairmyres, on the border of the 

 industrial part of Lanarkshire where the men who came to them 

 as consumptives were to be trained to country work, having 

 previously been employed in industrial work. They afterwards 

 proceeded to Camps, forty miles farther south, where the forest, 

 an area of about 3000 acres, is to be planted round the 

 reservoirs which are to supply the district with water. The 

 site selected for this forest appeared to be extremely promising; 

 the soil was excellent and the ground required little draining. 

 The District Committee had further shown their good sense 

 in recognising that expert advice was necessary in dealing with 

 an undertaking of this kind. They also proposed to employ 

 and train as foresters a number of disabled soldiers in connection 

 with their afforestation scheme at Camps. 



