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purposes, a Detailed Survey should follow to obtain the 

 particulars necessary to justify the State in acquiring, if possible, 

 an area for an Experimental Forest which should contain not 

 less than 5000 acres, but not necessarily in one block. 



" 10. We recommend that the Detailed Survey be carried 

 out by the Board, taking advantage of the assistance of, and 

 employing temporarily where necessary, any capable local 

 foresters who appear to be competent for the work. 



" It will be necessary for the Board through their officers, in 

 all cases, to check and amplify facts brought to their notice by 

 committees and private individuals. 



" II. We recommend that in conducting the Detailed Survey, 

 regard should be had, as far as possible, to the growth of existing 

 woods in the district. We consider, however, that owing to 

 injudicious planting of species in unsuitable localities, and to 

 subsequent mismanagement, mere estimates of the value of 

 timber standing in such woods, will, in many cases, lead to an 

 unfairly low valuation of the land for forestry purposes, and that 

 due allowance should be made, in mapping the land, for any 

 such unsatisfactory conditions where they occur. 



" 12. We recommend that in the Detailed Survey the land be 

 mapped on the 6" scale into several quality classes, indicating 

 the probable productivity of the soil. 



" We are doubtful, however, as to whether it would be to the 

 public advantage to publish the maps when completed." 



Mr Munro Ferguson adds the following note at the end of 

 this report: — 



" I am of opinion that ;^2ooo is a sufficient sum to apply to 

 survey work for the next two years, after which the expenditure 

 could be reviewed in the light of experience." 



Report on Second Reference. 



" I. We have given the second of the three references 

 submitted to us — 'To draw up plans for experiments in silvi- 

 culture, and to report upon questions relating to the selection 

 and laying out of forestal demonstration areas ' — very careful 

 consideration. 



" 2. We have divided our Report into two sections, the first 

 part dealing with the question of a Demonstration Area, and 

 the second part with Forestry Experiments, 



