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however, that the entrance age be reduced to 19 years, and 

 that the students be given greater opportunities for study, by 

 reducing the hours of manual labour, but without reduction of 

 the existing rates of wages. As such a course would involve 

 a further charge on the Forest, we recommend that this charge 

 be made good by a grant under the head of Forestry Education. 



"41. We recommend that one or two scholarships of a value 

 of ;^5o be offered annually to enable the best of the students 

 who have gone through a woodmen's school to proceed for 

 one year to a centre for higher training. If no courses are 

 given at present which would prove entirely satisfactory for such 

 continuation students, a suitable course could no doubt be 

 arranged at some convenient centre. 



" 15. As supplementary to the above steps for the training 

 of woodmen, we consider that short courses of lectures at 

 convenient centres have a distinct value. The value of such 

 lectures lies not only in the knowledge imparted, but also in the 

 stimulus produced in those attending them. 



"16. We therefore recommend that it should be arranged 

 for short series of lectures in practical forestry to be given by 

 the Board's advisory officers at convenient centres in different 

 districts." 



Four appendices are added. The first is a memorandum by 

 Sir W. Schlich on the organisation of the Demonstration Area for 

 the purpose of practical instruction and experiments in silvi- 

 culture. We quote this appendix in full. 



APPENDIX I. 



Memorandum on the Organisation of the Demonstration 

 Area for the purpose of Practical Instruction and 

 Experiments in Silviculture. 



"The Advisory Committee, at their sitting on i8th May 

 1 91 2, defined the purposes of the Demonstration Forest as 

 follows : — 



(a) An object lesson on the benefits arising out of systematic 

 forest management, including accessory forest in- 

 dustries. 

 {d) A practical training ground for forestry students. 

 (c) A training ground for woodmen. 



