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Research Institute is included in the statement above. The 

 rates of pay given are in many cases further supplemented by 

 small local allowances. 



Foresters in North America will be rendered still more envious 

 by the knowledge that the members of the Indian Forest Service 

 receive after 20 years' service pensions roughly equivalent to one- 

 sixtieth of the average pay for each year served. 



A man entering the Indian Forest Service expects to spend his 

 life in the service and does so. It remains to be seen whether 

 it will be possible for a man to do so in North America on the 

 scale of reward and imder the condition of uncertainty of the 

 future now existing. 



One restilt of the crystalization of the Indian Forest Service is 

 that promotions from grade to grade are determined chiefly by 

 seniority. A man expects to be made a Conservator when about 

 twenty-two years in the service. Naturally where seniority is 

 one of the guiding principles in promotion, the effect is to a great 

 extent to dull initiative. 



The only members of the Imperial Forest staff paid by the 

 Government of India are the Inspector General, Assistant 

 Inspector General, Officers of the Research Institute, Chief Con- 

 servators and Conservators. The remainder are paid by the 

 provinces in which they serve. The Indian government pays all 

 pensions, however, and for this reason must sanction the staff 

 employed in each province. The effect of this arrangement is 

 an inevitable understaffing of the organization; the head of the 

 Forest Service in any province must persuade first his provincial 

 government, then the Indian government to sanction an increase 

 of staff. The chances are against him. 



Promotions to the grades of conservator and chief conservator 

 have always been made by the Inspector General who has felt 

 himself free to draw upon the whole service to fill a vacancy in 

 any province. This power of the Inspector General has, however, 

 apparently been somewhat reduced in recent years. The pro- 

 vincial governments have exhibited a tendency to override the 

 recommendations of the Inspector General and promote one of 

 the men already serving in the province. 



The Provincial Service consists chiefly of men bom in India, 

 selected from the subordinate services of the various provinces 

 and given a two years' training at the Imperial Government Forest 

 School at Dehra Dun. 



