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and trained, schools were established to furnish 

 the recruits for this steadily growing service. 

 There is one at Cooper's Hill, England, where 

 a thorough course is intended to prepare men for 

 the superior staff positions, and the Imperial school 

 at Dehra Dun, which is to supply the great num- 

 ber of the executive staff, the young men starting 

 in usually as guards or rangers at a pay of about 

 $2$ per month, working their way up to places 

 worth $50 per month, and if well suited, eUgible 

 for further promotion. In the Dehra Dun school 

 and the executive staff, the native element is fast 

 making itself felt, and there is little doubt that the 

 men of India will soon be able to manage the for- 

 ests of their own native land. 



In most of the English colonies, there exist also 

 beginnings of a forest policy, and in several of them, 

 at least, forestry departments, albeit inefficient or 

 impotent, as in New South Wales, whose timber 

 wealth, originally enormous, is now rapidly deterio- 

 rating under a loosely managed license system, 

 although the department of agriculture and for- 

 estry employs some 350 "foresters" and assistants 

 on the 5,500,000 acres of forest land belonging to 

 the government. 



Similarly in Western Australia, the conservator 

 of the department of woods and forests is appar- 

 ently powerless to extend any improved system of 

 utilization over the 20,000,000 acres of woodlands 

 to which the magnificent Eucalypts, especially the 



