614 Forestry Quarterly 



Several South African Rhodes scholars have specialized in forestry 

 at Oxford and later joined the Department. The Union Govern- 

 ment has also established two scholarships tenable for three years, 

 each worth £200 annually, to permit two men to study abroad. 

 The regular programme calls for the appointment of two Assistant 

 District Foresters yearly. 



One of the chief weaknesses of forest administration, par- 

 ticularly in Canada, is the uncertain future of the trained and other 

 men employed. The lack of a defined salary policy on the part 

 of many governments, and the utter absence of a pension system, 

 is certain to render difficiilt the holding of the best men. Canadian 

 governments do not attempt to safeguard their interests by pro- 

 viding safe careers for, or offering inducements to, their expert 

 employees. Chiefly as a result of the Crown colony administra- 

 tion in the various African provinces before Union, a definite 

 salary and pension scale has been adopted by law which, by its 

 certain provision for the future, serves as an inducement for the 

 forester to allow his future to rest with the State. What the Gov- 

 ernment of South Africa has considered it wise to do may be of 

 interest in North America. It shoiild be noted weU that in South 

 Africa, a million white people, possessing virtually no forests are 

 engaged in forest planting. Foresters in South Africa on the face 

 of things, can hardly have a high market value outside their present 

 employment. The government desires to attract good men and 

 keep them, therefore offers fair pay and a pension. 



The permanent field men, known as foresters, chiefly rangers on 

 the reservations or skilled men in charge of nurseries and planta- 

 tions, are divided into four grades, receiving the following pay 

 per year: 



First grade £ 84 to £120 



Second " £120 " £150 



Third " £150 " £180 



Fourth " £180 " £240 



The Assistant District foresters receive £180 to £255 annually, 

 and, when they reach the grade of District Forest Officers, rise 

 from £280 to £360. Conservators of whom there are seven, are 

 divided into three classes : 



£400 to £500 3 conservators 

 £500 " £600 3 

 £600 " £700 1 



