AUSTRALIAN RECOMMENDATIONS. 
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The four corner stones of Australian Forestry development are :— 
(a) The immediate provision of a scheme of forestry training. 
(0) The building-up of a forest science by research. 
(c) The establishment of an organisation. 
(d) The construction of a system. 
FORESTRY TRAINING. 
1. There should be attached to each State Forest Service, for the purpose 
of staff training, a School of Forestry. 
-2. That School of Forestry should be neither a professional nor a trade 
institution like those of Europe, but a vocational one bearing the same relation 
to forestry and the timber industry that a School of Mines bears to mining 
and the mine industries. 
3. Both a three (or four) years’ undergraduate course for a junior staff. 
in training, and a three months’ short course for officers already employed 
should be provided. 
4, An appropriate syllabus is suggested on pages 35-39 of this memoir. 
5, The school should be so located as to be of ready access to the forest 
and its administrative headquarters, the timber industries’ operations, a 
District Forestry Office, a railway, and a town. 
6. The students should be selected carefully, and- appointed on an 
apprenticeship basis, with board and residence, and a living allowance of, 
say, 10s. per week. 
7. An appropriation of approximately £3,500 should be allotted to defray 
capital cost, with a like amount annually for upkeep. 
8. The course should include work in the forest, experience in forest 
assessment camps, forest nurseries and experiment stations, demonstration 
forests, and forest offices. 
DEVELOPMENT OF FOREST SCIENCE. 
Education and research go hand in hand, and considerable 
advantages flow from the combination. The work of the Forestry 
School should be not alone instructive, but investigative and experi- 
mental also. In some measure, the school should be a clearing house 
for new ideas—analogous to some extent to the planning and training 
department of scientific management. 
Many problems must be solved before Australian forest 
practice can be established soundly. Due preparation and planning 
make for economy of administration in the long run. The field of 
forest research is very wide. The task should be commenced forth- 
with in a comprehensive way. Ss : 
