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Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



Centbal Admiotsteation. 



TOTAIi Salaeies. 



1 Director-General 



3 Administrators, acting as general inspectors . . 



Clerks 



£ 

 •600 



1,200 



1,025 



5,625 Inspectors 

 11,800 Eangers 

 24,750 Guards 



Total Area 



to be 



divided into 



100 



Ranges, 



Executive Seevice. 



Inspectoes. 



Eangees. 



FOEEST GUAEDS. 



25 Inspectors. 



100 Rangers. 



450 Guards. 



£45,000 



Circumscription. 

 Four ranges. 



Three classes ; 

 salaries ave- 

 raging £225. 



Three or four 

 classes ; sala- 

 ries averaging 

 £118. 



Eange extend- 

 ing over about 

 23,810 acres. 



Salary, £55 (ave- 

 rage) ; house, 

 garden, and 

 firewood pro- 

 vided for ; civil 

 pension (fur- 

 ther mention- 

 ed). 



For Forest 



B stablishments. 



Acres. 

 2,381,000 



Say £10,000 



Forest guards liave 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 meanuig and appHca- 

 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 probabihty beuag 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, fii'ewood, garden, and paddock, will allow 



