AFFORESTATION OF CATCHMENT AREAS 91 
each year, thus extending the completion of the scheme 
over a period of twenty years. A working plan was 
prepared and approved of by Government on which these 
twenty sections are marked out, but there is provision for 
deviations being made if required by circumstances. The 
Government contribute a sum per acre which is intended 
to cover approximately the actual cost of planting. Also 
they contribute a specified allowance per acre in respect of 
maintenance. Payment is made by the Treasury in 
advance at the beginning of each planting season, after 
inspection and approval of the previous year’s planting by 
an expert from the Forestry Department. In consideration 
of these advances, the Corporation have to pay to the 
Treasury a sum equal to one-half of the net value of all 
timber, saplings, thinnings, and other products resulting 
from the joint operations. There is also an arbitration 
clause in the event of differences arising between the 
Corporation and the Board of Agriculture or Treasury. 
Briefly, the arrangement is, that the Corporation provide 
the land, plant the trees, and sell the products. The 
Government pay, in advance, the cost of planting. The 
profits are divided equally between the two parties.” 
Mr. Parry, to whom I am much indebted for information 
about the Liverpool catchment areas, attaches “great im- 
portance to the agreement between the Government and 
the Corporation, chiefly because it ensures the working out 
of a planting scheme over a large area. Any scheme 
undertaken by a Municipal Corporation, unaided and 
uncontrolled, is liable to interruption through the changes 
constantly taking place in the composition of Councils; and 
there is also considerable danger of mismanagement.” 
The adoption of this scheme involved the taking in 
hand, during twenty years, of 9 farms on the Vyrnwy area, 
from which the Corporation now derive a gross rental of 
£583, and a net rental (allowing for repairs) of £498. 
These farms cover 9645 acres, including grouse moors also 
let for sporting, not suitable for planting. The value of 
the sporting would be considerably increased by the removal 
