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APPOINTMENTS BY THE GENERAL Post OFFICE. 
The General Post Office has created four new posts of 
“Assistant Pole Inspector” in connection with the supply of 
telegraph poles for use by the Department. Candidates must 
be between the ages of twenty and twenty-five years. Salary 
commences at £ 100, and rises by annual increments of £6 to 
#140. Assistant Pole Inspectors may be selected for promotion 
to the class of Pole Inspector, on £150, rising by annual 
increments of #10 to #220. Further information may be 
obtained on application to the Secretary of this Society. 
Hon. Ep. 
DEMONSTRATION FOREST FOR SCOTLAND. 
On the 2oth June, in the House of Commons, Mr Herbert 
Roberts asked the following question:—What steps have been 
taken to carry into effect the recommendation of the Departmental 
Committee of 1902 on British forestry; and whether any 
communication has been addressed to corporations and 
municipalities relative to the Committee’s recommendation as 
to the desirability of planting with trees the catchment-areas of 
their water supply? 
Replying on behalf of the President of the Board 
of Agriculture, Sir E. Strachey said:—1. The Departmental 
Committee recommended that the Alice Holt Woods, in Hamp- 
shire, should be made available as soon as possible to serve as a 
demonstration area in England. This has been done. A full 
report as to the past history, present position, and future manage- 
ment of these woods has been prepared by Dr Schlich at the 
request of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and the 
recommendations made therein are being systematically carried 
out. A certain amount of experimental planting has already 
taken place. Copies of Dr Schlich’s report, illustrated by plans, 
can be had on application to the Commissioners. J¢ was also 
recommended that a suttable estate should be purchased tn Scotland 
to serve as another demonstration area. Several properties have been 
brought to the notice of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, but, 
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