HC Deb 17 December 1928 vol 223 cc2634-5W
Sir R. THOMAS

asked the hon. Member for Monmouth, as representing the Forestry Commissioners, for each county in Wales, the number of acres of planted land which were denuded of trees during the War and the number of acres in each county which have since been replanted?

Sir L. FORESTIER-WALKER

The report on the Census of Woodlands, recently published by the Stationery Office, gives the acreage, set out in the following table, of felled or devasted woodlands in each county in Wales. The greater part were felled or devastated during the War. The number of acres in each county which have since been planted by the Forestry Commission are set out in the following table:

County. Acreage felled or devastated. Acreage planted by Commission.
Anglesey 48
Brecon 7,388 611
Cardigan 6,617
Carmarthen 8,154 385
Carnarvon 3,127 2,400
Denbigh 3,055
Flint 1,035
Glamorgan 6,202 3,187
Merioneth 3,398 2,589
Monmouth 4,449 3,465
Montgomery 11,558 2,283
Pembroke 4,133
Radnor 3,018 904

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