Forestry in Britain.
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LOfNiDOIN, January ;W The second ■'"'report 1 of " ttea'^yal Cfoniinissioii declares thait Sltote afforestation, is practicable and desirable, and capable of temporarily employing during the winter months 18,000 unemployed, and of permanenitly employing lultiniately 90,000.
The Commission rceommend a loan to cover the anniual coat of £2,000,----000. Tlie forest* would prove selfparting aft«r 40 years, and after SO would yield a net revenue of £17,----500,000.
The m«ws>patpers support tine pro>oeal. " " ,
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Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10617, 18 January 1909, Page 2
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80Forestry in Britain. Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10617, 18 January 1909, Page 2
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