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would obtain some return for the money expended, 

 as forestry would provide congenial employment for 

 those who have been fighting the country's battles, 

 both officers and men, a proportion of whom have 

 already expressed an intention of desiring to obtain 

 open-air employment. If the pay and prospects 

 offered under the new afforestation schemes are 

 made sufficiently attractive, there should be no diffi- 

 culty on the score of obtaining and training the staff 

 required. And even if the terms offered were on the 

 liberal side, the nation would only be repaying a 

 part of the debt it owes to these men, and the extra 

 rates offered them need not form a precedent in 

 fixing the scale of salaries to their successors, or 

 those who have not served actively in the war. 



