Table IIa.-Expenditure and Income Classified by Objects. Great Britain Ireland 2,877 625,799 137,415 107 218 93 6,074 1920-27 405,484 402,186 3,298 2,395,506 212,633 84,010 56,567 95,907 51,728 220,815 3,120,464 587,341 4,033 2,237 832 10,713 1920-23 27,262 26,479 783 18,674 57,965 10,215 90,514 690 80 25,245 Grand Total... 432,746 428,665 4,081 2,414,180 212,633 86,887 56,567 153,872 61,943 220,815 3,210,978 588,031 4,113 27,482 832 10,713 Note.-Salaries of Instructors in Schools and of Research and Experiment Officers are shown under Salaries, Wages, etc. (A.) in Table II, but under Education (G.) and Research (H.) in the above Table. Sub-heads A to D, General Organisation: Expenditure: £64,929. There is an increase in expenditure over 1926 of £2,931 due to the expansion of operations. During the year the number of District Officers increased from 26 to 29. Sub-head E, Forestry Operations: Expenditure, £504,099; Income, £137,415. Details of expenditure and income are given in Table E below. Compared with 1926, gross expenditure is increased by £10,776 and receipts by £14,569. Cultural operations cost £29,654 more at £230,543, due to the expansion of the planting programme, but expenditure on acquisition of land was £18,740 less at £99,867 and on stores and miscellaneous £15,140 less at £54,711. Overhead Charges, £23,059; Superior Supervision, £24,133, and Local Supervision, £27,430.-Overhead charges is an apportioned sum representing the expenditure on all salaries, allowances and office charges other than those of Divisional Officers, District Officers, Deputy Surveyors and their Assistants (all of which are included under superior supervision), and foresters and foremen (included under local supervision). During the year the number of foresters and foremen was increased by 18 from 150 to 168. 1922... 16,371 17,639 9,816 17,191 129,414 3,918 4,779 30,516 1923... 18,496 12,709 10,552 27,768 82,359 4,287 5,049 19,879 14,352 49,418 114,356 9,217 7,318 26,404 6,474 7,283 16,702 30,999 181,099 900 5,951 16,902 9,854 1924... 9,525 16,447 247,037 10,839 25,264 42,852 11,743 1925... 18,783 24,046 18,433 101,471 164,125 15,684 18,485 45,129 406,156 23,626 39,367 1926... 20,778 24,444 24,224 118,607 200,889 16,576 17,954 69,851 493,323 16,398 42,086 44,664 19,698 122,846 370,477 1927... 23,059 24,133 27,430 99,867 230,543 23,543 23,543 20,813 54,711 504,099 3,467 45,483 74,047 14,418 137,415 366,684 Total 145,466 147,645 111,136 540,518 1,026,935 75,262 83,856 264,688 2,395,506 56,070 169,838 270,519 90,914 587,341 1,808,165 229,644 540 198,645 33,607 147,492 90,698 156,339 55,055 16,391 134,439 271,717 Note. The figures relating to Ireland (during 1920-23) are omitted. Acquisition of Land, Buildings and Standing Timber: Expenditure, £99,867.-During the year £82,138 was paid in respect of purchases of land, including the standing timber and buildings thereon, and £17,729 in respect of land held on long lease or feu. The average rent or feu duty for land acquired for forestry operations during the year by lease or feu is approximately 2s. 7d. per acre and the average price for the land purchased approximately £3 10s. per acre, or if the whole be charged against plantable land only, 2s. 10d. and £4 respectively. Land and buildings for forest workers' holdings are excluded. Land acquired from 29th November, 1919, to 30th September, 1927. Note.-The Forestry (Transfer of Woods) Orders 1924 to 1926 transferred to the Forestry Commissioners the bulk of the Crown Woodlands. The area so transferred, additional to the 391,511 acres above-mentioned, amounts to approximately 120,000 acres of which some 60,000 acres are carrying timber or are under forestal treatment. The total area acquired during the forest year 1926-27 amounted to 36,039 acres, of which 30,755 acres were classified as plantable. The area in Great Britain in respect of which the legal formalities of acquisition by the Department had been completed by the 30th September, 1927, was 331,177 acres, the corresponding figures in the two previous annual reports being 278,807 and 233,297 acres. In addition to these completed acquisitions, entry has been secured to a number of other properties. Details are given in the above table, which also shows the area of "plantable" and "other land." i.e., land which is either too poor to plant or is required for other purposes. The total area acquired in Great Britain to 30th September, 1927, is 391,511 acres, of which 244,838 acres were classified at the time of acquisition as plantable. Of the plantable area, 140,756 acres (57 per cent.) are situated in England and Wales and 104,082 acres (43 per cent.) in Scotland. Cultural Operations: Expenditure, £230,543.-Expenditure on cultural operations relates to plantations and nurseries, of which the former absorbed £165,882 and the latter £64,661. An analysis of expenditure is given in Table E 5. Plantations. The total area planted or sown during the year was 23,473 acres, of which 21,963 acres were placed under conifers and 1,510 acres under broadleaved species. The total addition to the woodland area of Great Britain was 18,159 acres, the remaining plantations being on the site of felled woodlands. In making these plantations and in beatingup the previous years' plantations 45,342,000 trees were planted, of which 44 per cent. were Scots and Corsican pines, 26 per cent. Norway and Sitka spruces, 12 per cent. European and Japanese larches and 10 per cent. Douglas fir. |