PROPOSAL AND PROCEDURE We do not ask for immediate legislation but propose that the of Agriculture should make a Statement of Policy to the The contents of that Statement are appended and have the and support of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. COMMENT ON THE PROPOSALS CONTAINED IN THE STATEMENT It is of first importance to get the maximum possible area or afforested, as the case may be, in the first post-war The Forestry Commission after their assessment of the at the end of 1942 proposed a programme for the first of 1,100,000 acres of afforestation and replanting.