7. As soon as the Forestry Commission are satisfied by inspection and otherwise that the work to be done under the Scheme has been satisfactorily completed they will certify accordingly. The certificate will state the amount of the grant which will then be due and payable. 8. Any application for grant No. 2 shall be deemed to include an undertaking by the applicant that the area in respect of which such a grant is applied for will be duly planted up within whatever period the Assistant Commissioner may decide. APPLICATION FOR GRANT. I hereby apply for a grant in respect of the above Scheme, which will be carried out in accordance with the regulations. (Signature) The above Scheme is approved by the Forestry Commissioners as eligible for grant. (Signature) Assistant Commissioner for (Date) APPENDIX II. Imports of Timber, Wood Manufactures and Pulp of Wood. Details of imports for the averages of the five pre-war years, of the years 1914-18, and for 1921 and 1922 are stated in the table below. Attention was drawn in the last Annual Report to the great decreases in quantities for 1921 as compared with 1920. The 1922 figures show a corresponding recovery, so that the total for unmanufactured timber is some 688,000 loads in excess of 1920, and no less than 3,662,000 loads in excess of 1921. Imports of pulp of wood have taken a somewhat similar course. * These figures apply mainly to sawn softwoods. It is not possible to differentiate according to the various categories enumerated above owing to a change in the Board of Trade classification for 1920 onwards. Printed under the authority of HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE (B 34-214) Wt. 31406-274 1125 4/23 H & S, Ltd. Gp. 34. BOARD OF TRADE. REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRADE OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE METHOD OF CHARGING FOR GAS ON A THERMAL BASIS. Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. LONDON: PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE To be purchased through any Bookseller or directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: Imperial House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2, and 28 Abingdon Street, London, S.W.1; 37 Peter Street, Manchester; 1 St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120 George Street, Edinburgh. 1923 Price 6d. net. Cmd. 1825. MINUTE OF APPOINTMENT. AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, WHITEHALL, THIS THIRTIETH DAY OF NOVEMBER, PRESENT: 1922. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME, K.B.E., M.C., M.P. The Board of Trade are hereby pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to be a Committee to inquire and report as to the method of charging for gas on a thermal basis: Sir CLARENDON GOLDING HYDE (Chairman), Mr. ARTHUR BALFOUR, J.P., Sir JAMES MARTIN, J.P., F.S.A.A., Mr. A. PUGH, and Mr. W. J. U. WOOLCOCK, C.B.E. The Board are further pleased to appoint Mr. W. H. L. Patterson to be Secretary to the Committee. (Signed) P. LLOYD-GREAME. Note. The cost of this Report is £56 13s. 11d., of which £13 4s. Od. represents the cost of printing and publishing. THERM CHARGES COMMITTEE. REPORT TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME, SIR, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. WE were appointed by you to inquire and report as to the method of charging for gas on a thermal basis, and have the honour to present our Report, conclusions and recommendations in connection therewith. INTRODUCTION. 2. We have held five public meetings, during which evidence was heard from forty-one witnesses. In addition to evidence of an official and scientific character, we had before us a considerable mass of evidence tendered on behalf of the Gas Industry, Local Authorities, Railway Companies and private consumers. A considerable number of written statements were also received from the Corporation of London, Local Authorities and private consumers. It was evident that many of the witnesses and correspondents were under an entire misconception with regard to the reason for charging for gas on the basis of its heating properties, and with regard to the nature of the Therm. 3. The origin of the method of charging for gas by the Therm or on the basis of its heat content, in this country, may be regarded as dating back to a few years before the outbreak of the war. 4. Less than half a century ago gas had no serious competitor for lighting purposes, and it was not until after the Electric Lighting Act of 1882 was passed that electricity began to threaten the supremacy of gas. A few years later the introduction of the incandescent mantle provided an improved mode of utilising gas as a source of illumination and was probably the main cause of the continued and increasing use of gas for lighting. The development of the use of gas for domestic heating and cooking opened an almost inexhaustible field into which, as yet, expense has prevented the serious intrusion of electricity. 5. Formerly gas was supplied to an illuminating standard and used with flat flame and Argand burners, the light being produced directly by the combustion of the particles of the gas in the surrounding air. When the incandescent mantle came into use, the illuminating properties of the gas became of subsidiary |