§ MR. MUNRO FERGUSON (Leith Burghs)To ask the hon. Member for North Huntingdonshire, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether the Board of Agriculture is in a position to offer State aid to the project for establishing an experimental area, or Forst-garten, in connection with the system of forestry instruction at Edinburgh.
(Answered by Mr. Ailywn Fellowes.) We have been in communication with the Scottish Education Department on this subject and I am in a position to say that if any educational institution, such, for example, as the East of Scotland Agricultural College, were to lay itself out to provide education in forestry and 1214 to establish an experimental area or Forst-garten in connection therewith, the Department would take such an item of equipment into consideration in determining the amount of any grant that they might give. There would, in fact, be no more difficulty about supporting an institution with a Forst-garten attached than there would be in supporting an instituton with a chemical laboratory or a botanic garden.