§ 3. Sir JOHN FLEMINGasked the President of the Board of Trade if he can now give approximately, either in acreage or cubic feet, the quantity of soft woods growing in the country before the War, and the quantity now left un felled, giving the figures separately for England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales?
Sir A. STANLEYThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. With regard to the latter part, a survey is now proceeding which, when completed, will enable an estimate to be arrived at of the unfelled woods in the United Kingdom: but I doubt whether it would be in the public interest that the results of this survey should be published.