PART IV 



THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN 

 FORESTRY 



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WOMEN AND FORESTRY 1 



I AM very grateful to the Edinburgh Franchise Club for 

 affording me an opportunity of placing before them 

 some aspects of the forestry question in the country 

 and the directions in which, as I think, women can give 

 us very considerable assistance. Some of you may be 

 aware that there exists, amongst other economic 

 problems in this country, a forestry one. This pro- 

 blem is, or has proved in the past, somewhat com- 

 plicated since it has seemed to contend with or threaten 

 other vested interests. It will also necessitate the 

 expenditure of a certain sum of money. And in what- 

 ever form this money may be subsequently laid out it 

 has first to be secured. A treasury is always a difficult 

 place to delve for gold in, and a Government Treasury 

 often the most unproductive of all. 



I do not propose to trouble you with the history of 

 the afforestation question in this country. Whatever 



1 A lecture delivered before the Edinburgh Franchise Club on 

 February 2, 1916. 



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