14 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 
CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION. TOTAL SALARIES. 
1 Director-General .. be EN ks s e oe 600 
3 Administrators, acting as general inspectors .. us oe 1,200 
1,025 
5,625 Inspectors 
11,800 Rangers 
Clerks we ee ie «s "M ee 
EXECUTIVE SERVICE. 
Total Area INSPECTORS. RANGERS, FOREST GUARDS. 24,750 Guards 
to be 
25 Inspectors. 100 Rangers. 450 Guards. 
divided into £45.000 
zm Cireumsceription.| Three or four tele £55 (ave- 
Ranges, Four ranges. classes ; sala- rage); house, 
Three classes; riesaveraging| garden d ADAE 
M ave- £118. firewood pro- or Fores 
g £225. | Range extend-| vided for; civil || Establishments. 
ingoverabout| pensi ( 
Aerei: 23,810 acres. ther mania Say £10,000 
2,881,000 
Forest guards have to do special work on survey and demarcation 
operations, and likewise on selection and marking operations ; they make 
forest roads and plantations; and besides their work of general supervision 
they may be called for special police or military service. In the above 
stated total number, 400 guards are intended for permanent residence and 
50 as a flying brigade. 
In reference to the item of civil pensions to be allowed to forest guards, 
it is necessary to explain that the suggestion as to its meaning and applica- 
tion is not in opposition to the principle on which civil pensions were 
abolished here. The institution, as it was constituted, involved the State 
in heavy liabilities without any actual compensation for the same, and 
also conferred privileges on a certain class of the people. 
Civil pensions in almost all countries are constituted under the principle 
that the Government servants have to pay for the pension, by a percentage of 
say, five per cent. being deducted from the nominal salaries. Experience in 
some countries has proved that such a percentage allows considerable profit 
to the State, owing to various causes of forfeiture, such as premature death, 
dismissal, and voluntary resignation of functions; further, the reduction 
of the nominal salary may also be considered as a guarantee for the good of 
the service, the probability being that those who have paid for the pension 
will not risk their future means of subsistence, through neglect of their 
official duties. 
The salaries of the forest guards being taken as from £50 to £60 per 
annum with house or barracks, firewood, garden, and paddock, will allow 
