IV. AUSTRALIAN RECOMMENDATIONS. 
9. The important work of forest investigation might be centred with 
advantage at a Forestry School, which would be styled: “The State School of 
Forestry and Institute of Forest. Research.” 
Provided that— 
(a) The section relating to Forest Products might be allocated under 
suitable agreement to institutions such as the Technological 
Museum of Sydney, and Engineering Schools of Universities. 
(b) The section relating to Dendrology and Botany might be shared 
with State Botanists. 
(c) The work of silvical research should be divided amongst Experi- 
mental and Demonstration areas, Forest Nurseries and Forest 
Stations, and general forest investigations. 
10. The State Forestry Museum might be attached to the Forest Institute. 
11. The services and records of Forest Officers generally and of Forest 
Assessors particularly should be available to the Institute in the collection 
and compilation of data. 
12. All specialist and investigative officers might be concentrated with 
advantage at the Forest Institute until such time as extension of departmental 
administrdtion justifies the establishment of distinct specialising branches. 
13. The research work undertaken at the Forest Institute should include 
the study of forest and timber industries and markets, with a view to 
developing improved methods and extended uses for native timbers, and 
furnishing advice and assistance generally to the public and the Forest Service 
in all its operations. 
14. The research work should include also the systematic investigation of 
the forest pests, including white ants, borers, mantis, &c., with a view to 
reducing the tremendous losses due thereto. 
15. The research work should include also the study and planning of 
administrative methods and the application of Scientific Management 
principles. 
16. The functions of the Forest Institute might include the preparation 
of manuals, circulars, text-books, reviews, and measures of publicity. 
17. Generally, the Forest Institute would be used by the Director of 
Forests as an agency wherewith to mould the new forestry. Therefore, it 
would come under his immediate control. 
ORGANISATION OF PERSONNEL. 
Personnel stock-taking is the first measure in organising an 
administration. 
It has been estimated that 75 per cent. of workers are in 
the wrong avocations. 
“The ideal for every employee is that he should be employed 
in that position which he is best fitted to fill, doing work which by 
natural aptitude, training, and experience, he is best qualified to do.” 
18. A preliminary measure should be vocational analysis under the 
Blackford Employment Plan, of each officer, present and prospective, of the 
Forest Service, with a view to the scientific determination of his especial bent 
and his allotment to that line of projected duty in which he is best fitted to 
engage. 
Most of the confusion in the world is due to the incorrect 
placing of the individual. Utopia cannot arrive until the right man 
