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a number obtain forestry appointments in the Colonies. We 

 consider that increased provision should be made for the 

 training of men of this type. 



"8. To provide this increase, we consider that the capacity 

 of the above schools should be gradually extended. If, as 

 appears probable, this extension should render the working of 

 the woods in which the schools are situated more expensive, 

 we consider that any such extra charge should be met by special 

 grants made for the purpose of assisting forestry instruction. 



" 9. With the establishment of the Experimental Forests, to 

 which we alluded in our report on the first reference submitted 

 to us, further facilities will become available for giving practical 

 instruction on certain sides of forestry work, and we can see 

 no insuperable difficulties to arranging the courses at the 

 Forest of Dean School and the Chopwell Woods on the one 

 hand, and at the Experimental Forests on the other hand, 

 so that any congestion at the schools may be relieved. The 

 work at the one locality might conveniently supplement that 

 at the other. 



" ID. We consider it desirable that it should be possible for 

 boys who intend to become woodmen to find facilities for 

 qualifying for the position of working foreman and eventually 

 of head forester, and we recommend that the attendance at 

 the courses of the type provided in the Forest of Dean or 

 Chopwell Woods should be limited to those who can produce 

 satisfactory evidence of having already gained considerable 

 experience of the manual labour involved in forestry operations. 



"11. We recommend that on leaving school at the age of 

 14-15 years, such boys should be apprenticed as woodmen on 

 approved estates for a period of at least three years. At the 

 end of this period the youths on production of certificates of 

 conduct and health should go on to the Forest of Dean, the 

 Chopwell, or other similar school, where special facilities should 

 be provided for their further training. 



"12. We recommend that the Education Committees of 

 counties or groups of counties be invited to offer a limited 

 number of scholarships to assist the most promising of those 

 apprentices who might otherwise be unable to proceed to these 

 woodmen's schools. 



"13. We consider that the present course which is given at 

 the Forest of Dean is very satisfactory. We recommend, 



