REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. I25 



and training provided in the forest, except the classes from the 

 teaching centres, which should visit the forest with their own 

 teachers (see 15). He should also supervise research work, 

 the collection of statistics and the publication of results, and 

 should be entrusted with the general management of the whole 

 estate. Estimated initial salary, ^500. 



Ttvo Assistants to the Director, forest-officers, one of whom 

 should live in the hostel (see 6) and be responsible for its 

 control. They should assist in research and teaching, and 

 one should be selected with a special view to each of these 

 objects. Estimated initial salaries, jQzS^ ^.nd ^300. 



Some clerical assistance will be required by the director — 

 probably two clerks — but this will depend upon the size of the 

 forest and other circumstances. Estimated cost : head clerk, 

 salary ^^150; book-keeper, _;^ioo; apprentice in office, ;^20. 



Head Fo fester, an experienced working forester with a salary 

 of ;^i20 a year and a house. He should have charge, under 

 the director, of all silvicultural operations, and should also act 

 under him as supervisor of the working apprentices in the 

 woods. 



In an ordinary State forest there would be no one between 

 the forest-officer in charge of 4000 acres and the working 

 foreman in charge of 1000 acres. The head forester is 

 introduced here to relieve the director of the immediate details 

 of responsibility in the two functions mentioned in the preceding 

 paragraph, and so free him for the direction of research and 

 other work. 



We use the term "head forester," because men of this 

 standing will always be required {a) in private forests, and {b) in 

 areas of less than 4000 acres forming outlying portions of State 

 forests. 



Working Foremen, each with ^^60 a year and a house. 



When the forest is fully stocked, one working foreman will 

 be required for each 1000 acres of wood, though he will not 

 necessarily be always employed within the particular area of 

 which he has charge. 



Twenty Apprentice Students, employed in the general work of 

 the forest and paid at the ordinary rate for forest labourers in 

 the district (see 17). 



Sundry other IVorkmen, whose numbers cannot be specified 

 beforehand, including forest labourers, carters, saw-millers, 



