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and in certain cases inaccurate. Returns from only 47 
authorities were given. Important areas, such as the 
Liverpool Corporation’s catchment area of 10,000 acres at 
Rivington, were omitted. The figures excluded land subject 
to common rights, small areas of freehold, and certain areas 
which the local authorities reported as being too exposed 
for planting. Nevertheless, the fact was disclosed that 
over 100,000 acres of catchment areas were owned or held 
on long lease by local authorities. The tables summarised 
indicated for 1904: 
No. of Mountain ; 
Country. ratnariticd and Heath | Woodlands.| Cultivated. 
i Land. 
Acres. Acres. Acres. 
England é ; 25 78,550 | 1,850 1,650 
Wales . : : 9 6,250 100 one 
Scotland 5 7 13 10,950 50 1,300 
Total . : 47 95,750 2,000 2,950 
In the Final Report of the Reconstruction Forestry 
Sub-Committee (Cd. 8881 of 1918, p. 93) it is stated 
that the Glasgow Corporation’s areas at Loch Katrine and 
Gorbals should be added to the list as being owned by 
the local authority. This is incorrect, as the ownership 
of these areas still remains in private hands, and the Glasgow 
Corporation have no rights to make plantations upon them. 
The Board of Agriculture again, in 1909, made an 
inquiry concerning the amount of planting that had since 
been carried out. The result of this inquiry showed (11) 
that in the majority of cases, even where local authorities 
were in possession of the freehold or had long leases of 
their catchment areas, little progress had as yet been made. 
In a few cases, on the other hand, the work had been 
taken up seriously, and planting was being done on a 
systematic plan. Reports received from fourteen local 
authorities indicated that altogether some 2200 acres had 
been planted, and that schemes were on foot for planting 
a similar area during the ensuing five years. Leeds, Liver- 
