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having special duties of advising as to forest policy 

 and surveying its execution. 



4. Organisation of Forest Industries. — It is extremely desirable 

 that the Forest Authority should be in close touch and consulta- 

 tion with organisations representing the interests concerned in 

 the extraction and utilisation of timber and other forest products. 



5. Publicity. — It is the duty of the Forest Authority in every 

 part of the Empire to adopt and encourage methods of education 

 and publicity in order that the people may be fully informed of 

 the aims and purposes of forest policy, and may thus be induced 

 to co-operate towards its successful fulfilment. 



6. Distribution of Forest Plants. — The Conference have had 

 brought to their attention the advantages which have accrued 

 in several parts of the Empire from the wide distribution of 

 forest plants, and desire to bring the method of encouraging 

 tree-planting by distribution of plants either from Government 

 or private nurseries gratuitously or at cost price to the earnest 

 attention of their Governments. 



7. Terminology and Trade Nomenclature. — The following 

 questions should be referred to the proposed Imperial Forestry 

 Bureau immediately on its formation : — 



(i.) Standardisation of forest terminology ; 

 (ii.) Correct identification of timbers, and standardisation 

 of their trade names. 



8. Research. — The scheme of research work set out receives 

 the approval of the Conference, and is recommended to their 

 Governments for early consideration and approval by them. 



This takes the form of the report from a committee appointed 

 "to prepare a draft scheme for the organisation of that research 

 work which is essential to the progress of forestry, including 

 both the production and utilisation of forest produce, the com- 

 mittee to pay particular regard to the importance of avoiding 

 overlapping and of co-operation with existing institutions." 

 The report deals with the organisation and sub-division of 

 research, with the relation of the different parts of research to 

 one another and to education and practice, and with the subjects 

 of research both generally and in relation to the needs of the 

 different parts of the Empire. 



9. Education. — It should be a primary duty of Forest 

 Authorities throughout the Empire to establish systematic 



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