80 rOEESTS, WOODS, AND TREES 



reason are unwilling to place further burdens on the present 

 for the benefit of future generations. We have little doubt 

 that when the necessity of increasing our timber supplies 

 has been explained to local authorities, much greater activity 

 in systematic planting will be displayed, but in cases where 

 they are still unwilling or unable to plant without assistance, 

 local authorities should be eligible to receive all or any of 

 the forms of assistance to which we refer." Two methods 

 of assisting local authorities in municipal afforestation are 

 then proposed : 



(1) Proceeds-sharing. — "The State would provide the 

 cost of planting and general supervision, and would lay 

 down the working plan ; the landowner (local authority) 

 would provide the land and the cost of local management. 

 Accounts would be kept of the annual contributions made 

 by each party, and on the basis of these, reckoned up at 

 compound interest, the annual receipts would be divided. 

 This method seems rather complicated, as the ratio deter- 

 mining the division of proceeds would vary from year to 

 year, but no doubt a simple method of crediting proceeds 

 during the early years and arriving at a fair average ratio 

 as the basis of calculation when the woods become fully 

 productive could be mutually agreed upon." 



(2) Assistance hy Grants. — Grants up to £2 per acre 

 towards the cost of planting conifers and up to £4 per acre 

 towards the cost of planting hard woods are recommended, 

 the following conditions being imposed : First, the area to 

 be planted and the working plan must be approved by the 

 Forest Authority and adhered to. Secondly, a minimum 

 area to be planted at a minimum rate per annum, namely, 

 at least 100 acres to be afforested and at least 10 acres 

 planted up each year. Thirdly, the Forest Authority must 

 be satisfied that the planting and subsequent care of the 

 trees will be under adequately skilled management. 

 Fourthly, the grant to be refunded with interest if the 

 preceding conditions are not fulfilled. 



Mr. Parry, at a meeting of tlie British Waterworks 

 Association, 4th October 1918, preferred, under the con- 



