CHAPTER XIII 



FORESTRY SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE RECON- 

 STRUCTION COMMITTEE 



IT is very desirable in connection with 

 afforestation that the findings and recom- 

 mendations of the above Committee, recently 

 published, should be given the widest circula- 

 tion and most favourable consideration. The 

 Subcommittee found that 2 million additional 

 acres in this country could be devoted to timber- 

 production without decreasing the home pro- 

 duction of meat by more than 0'7 per cent., 

 and that if the land were so used the cultivation 

 would ultimately afford employment for at 

 least ten times the number of men now en- 

 gaged on that area. In order to render the 

 United Kingdom independent of the importa- 

 tion of timber for three years in any emergency, 

 it is necessary, the Committee say, while 

 making the fullest allowance for an extended 



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