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1909, the Commissioners being appointed in the 

 following year. The improvement of agriculture, 

 forestry, house building, harbours, fisheries, and so 

 on were to be questions for the consideration of the 

 Commissioners, and funds were placed at their dis- 

 posal to enable them to give effect to their recom- 

 mendations. This Commission was not one of the 

 ordinary kind i.e. appointed to amass evidence, 

 write a report, and then dissolve. The Development 

 Commission had come to stay. 



Inasmuch as forestry was one of the subjects 

 placed in the forefront of its programme, the subject 

 at length received official recognition. 



The part of the Development Act affecting 

 Forestry is as follows : 



" An Act to promote the Economic Development 

 of the United Kingdom and the Improvement of 

 Roads therein. 



Part I. Development, i. (i) The Treasury 

 may, upon the recommendation of the Development 

 Commissioners appointed under this Act, make 

 advances to a Government Department, or through 

 a Government Department to a public authority, 

 university, college, school, or institution, or an 

 association of persons or company not trading for 

 profit, either by way of grant or by way of loan, or 

 partly in one way and partly in the other, and 

 upon such terms and subject to such conditions as 

 they may think fit, for any of the following purposes : 



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" (b) Forestry (including (i) the conducting of 

 inquiries, experiments, and research for the purpose 

 of promoting forestry and the teaching of methods 



