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that the preparation of schemes of afforestation by a responsible 

 authority in Scotland was a matter of urgency, and mentioning 

 the excellent work that had been done by Liverpool Corporation 

 and its officials at Lake Vyrnwy, where he said the Develop- 

 ment Commissioners were making a splendid investment in the 

 money they were putting into it, and expressing the opinion that 

 schemes of a similar character could be repeated many times 

 over throughout Scotland, and particularly in the west. 



Mr Sydney J. Gammell, of Drumtochty, in moving the 

 resolution, said : — " I hardly think it needs many words of mine 

 or of any one else to commend a resolution like this to the 

 Arboricultural Society at any rate, but we wish this resolution to 

 go further, to have weight in the country and in the councils of 

 the Government, and it is for that reason that we bring it up 

 today. The intention of the Council is that this resolution, if it 

 is passed, as I trust it will be unanimously, will be forwarded to 

 the responsible quarters, and we hope that some practical good 

 may come out of it. We do not wish merely to meet and propose 

 abstract resolutions dealing with this subject or any other. It 

 has been the boast of this Society, and I think it is a true boast, 

 and we may congratulate ourselves upon it, that we have been 

 already instrumental in getting something done, at any rate, 

 towards the development of forestry in this country, and it is our 

 intention to press forward and get more and more done until 

 forestry is taken in hand really thoroughly and practically by the 

 Government of the country. Now we had some letters which 

 the Secretary has read, and I do not think I need refer to 

 them in detail. The resolution is before you, and what I think 

 we should do is to pass it as it stands. Whether the work is by 

 means of a separate department, which you will recollect it has 

 . always been the contention of this Society should be formed, or 

 whether it is done in some other way, really does not matter, so 

 long as the work is done, but I think if it is honestly and 

 conscientiously taken in hand it carries with it the provision of, 

 at any rate, a department of the Board of Agriculture with 

 separate funds at its disposal to carry on that work, and that 

 work alone. I say the effect of it being really seriously taken in 

 hand carries that separation of departments almost with it. You 

 cannot overload a department which at present exists and tack 

 forestry on merely at the end. It is much too important a 

 national issue to be subordinated to anything, and it certainly 



