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(30) The work of the Forest Department should be decentralized 

 considerably, the Division being made the administrative unit and 

 Divisional Officers, who should ordinarily have not less than 5 years' 

 service, being given more responsibility : Assistant Conservators should 

 be employed in the capacity of Assistants (paragraph 54). 



(31) A revised cadre is proposed for the Administrative branch, 

 involving an increase of seven over the present sanctioned scale, and the 

 rate of recruitment during the next 5 years is estimated at two a year 

 (paragraph 55). 



(32) A revised scale of salaries is proposed for the Executive staff 

 (Foresters) (paragraph 56). 



(33) In the event of a union of the East African territories, a Chief 

 Conservator of Forests should be appointed (paragraph 57). 



R. S. TROUP. 

 15th March, 1922. 



