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1. European Staff' (superior Forest Service) This should 

 consist of: 



(a.) A Conservator with a salary of 1,000 to 1,200 on a 

 yearly increment of 50, and duty pay of 200 per 

 annum. 



(b.) A Deputy Conservator on a salary of 700 to 900, with 

 a yearly increment of 50 and duty pay of 140 a 

 year. 



(c.) Senior Assistant Conservators (1st grade) with salaries 

 of 450 to 650 per annum, a yearly increment of 

 25, and duty pay at the rate of 90 per annum. 



(d.} Junior Assistant Conservators (2nd grade) with salaries 

 of 300 to 400, and yearly increments of 25. 



The Deputy Conservator will act for the Conservator when the 

 latter is absent on leave, and will be his second in command. 



The Senior As-sistan-ts will ordinarily hold .charge of the larger 

 Administrative Divisions, such as the Gold Coast, Ashanti, and 

 the Northern Territories. 



The Junior Assistants will hold charge of groups of Districts 

 corresponding to the Political Divisions known as Provinces. 



The Conservator, Deputy Conservator, and Senior Assistants 

 should, as far a<s possible, be recruited from professionally 

 trained men who have already had some experience of actual 

 executive and administrative work. 



The Junior Assistants should be recruited from amongst men 

 who have just passed through University or other 'similar courses 

 of instruction in Forestry. 



In proposing the above 'Salaries, I have been guided mainly 

 by the urgent necessity that exists for procuring trained men 

 to fill the appointments, and the lowest existing market rates 

 at which good men with those qualifications can be obtained. 

 When the peculiar natiire of "the duties involved, the special 

 training necessary, and the opportunities that exist for careless 

 or improper treatment (the effects of which very often cannot 

 be ascertained till generations have passed, and the officers con- 

 cerned also gone) to seriously damage the forests are recalled, 

 I think it will be admitted that the scale of salary proposed above 

 is none too liberal. 



Applications should be made to the India Office to induce men 

 from the Indian Imperial and Provincial Forest Services to 

 accept the higher-paid appointments. If necessary the appoint- 

 ments may be offered for three years to begin with, with the 

 option of making them permanent at the end of that period by 

 mutual consent. This may induce persons who are loath to leave 

 India permanently for residence in unhealthy climates like that 

 of West Africa to defer their decisions on this matter till they 

 have actually had experience of the climate on the Coast and 

 their reactions towards it. I am confident that once it is 

 generally known in India that the climate of the West Coast of 

 Africa is not quite so black as it is painted, and that the general 



