APPENDIX V.—(continued)—LIST OF CHAIRMEN AND CLERKS OF SALMON FISHERY DISTRICT BOARDS IN SCOTLAND.

DISTRICT.

Lochy

Nairn

Ness

Nith

Sligachan, Broadford, & Portree (Skye) Snizort, Orley, Oze, and Dry. nock (Skye) Spey

Stinchar

Tay.

Thurso

Torridon.

Tweed (Police Committee of the Commis. sioners)

Ugie

Wick

Ythan

Earl of Errol, Slains Castle, Aberdeen- D. M. A. Chalmers, Advocate, shire.

Aberdeen.

NOTE. In addition to the districts specified above, the Duke of Sutherland is joint proprietor of the Brora with Mr. W. P Tyser, and is joint proprietor, along with Mr. F. W. Wignall and Dr. T. H. Ward, of the Fleet. The Duke's Factor is Mr. A. N. Macaulay, Suther land Estates Office, Golspie. Mr. V W. Macandrew is proprietor of the Halladale, and Mr. and Mrs. Midwood, with the Duke of Sutherland, is joint proprietor of the Naver; Mr. Barnett is proprietor of the Borgie. The Duke of Westminster is sole proprietor of the Laxford, and Mr. Geo. Morrison of the Inchard. Mr. Alex. Morrison is proprietor of the Kinloch. Mr. J. W. Stewart is sole proprietor in the Inver and Kirkaig districts (in charge of his factor, Mr. Murdo Kerr, Assynt Estate Office, Lochinver); The Board of Agriculture for Scotland are sole proprietors of the rivers Polla, Strathy, and Armadale, and part owners of the river Dionard with Mr. John Elliot of Balnakiel, Durness. Mr. J. D. Milburn is proprietor of the river Hope, and Lord Lovat of the river Beauly (under charge of his factor, Mr. J. T. Garrioch, Estates Office, Beauly); and the Countess of Cromarty is sole proprietrix of the Kannaird district (Mr. Alex. Taylor, factor, Cromarty Estate Office, Kildary).

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FOREST POLICY.

GENERAL.-The Commissioners explained in their First Annual Report the nature and history of the Forest Policy to which they are giving effect. In their Second Annual Report the progress made up to date was recorded in a form which it is intended to follow year by year. In this their Third Annual Report they unfortunately have to deal with changes in the policy due to the unfavourable financial position with which the Government was and still is confronted.

The Committee on National Expenditure, in reporting on the work of the Forestry Commission, recommended that the afforestation policy adopted by Parliament after the war should be completely scrapped. On account of the immense field they had to cover the Committee were unable to undertake more than a very cursory examination of this subject, and it is not surprising that their report was superficial and full of misapprehensions. It ignored the four fundamental considerations on which the forest policy was based :

(1) The depletion of the home woods in which practically all the reserves of mature coniferous timber have been felled, while most owners are unable to face the cost of replanting.

(2) The depletion of the world's virgin forests which is already causing grave concern to countries far better supplied with timber than the United Kingdom.

(3) The provision of the reserves of standing timber shown to be essential for national defence.

(4) Afforestation is the only effective means of developing some four million acres of waste land in the United Kingdom capable of growing excellent timber but of limited utility for any other purpose.

It would appear that the Committee's very drastic recommendations were largely based on the fact that the operations of the Timber Supply Department during the war showed a heavy loss. The Committee had failed to grasp the history of that department or its significance Hurriedly extemporised in 1915 as the Home-grown Timber Committee, when the demand for timber for war purposes was daily increasing, and tonnage becoming daily scarcer, transferred in turn from the Board of Agriculture to the War Office, and then to the Board of