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41. On the forest stations must be built as required—Overseer’s head- 
quarters and offices, nurseries and experiment areas, camps, paddocks and 
pounds, and look-outs, &c, Standard specifications should be drawn up by 
the Branch of Forest Engineering. 
42. Logging railroads and chutes should be laid out into bodies of other- 
wise inaccessible timber. 
43, Telephone lines may have to be built in some instances, to connect 
forest stations to settlements. 
All this work is within the especial province of the proposed 
branch of Forest Engineering. 
Its execution should be under the direction of the forest 
supervisor and the foremanship of the forest overseer. Under this 
organisation, day labour should be most appropriate and effective 
in forest work. 
BUILDING A SYSTEM. 
The goal of a Forest Service in every aspect of its work should 
be “100 per cent. Efficiency.” ° 
That goal can never be attained by the adoption of a 
“muddling through” policy. There must be a persistent scientific 
attack upon the problems to be solved. The importance of detail 
must be recognised. The principles of efficiency engineering should 
be incorporated into departmental routine. 
There should be an early stocktaking of existing methods—a 
setting. down in writing of the accumulated “head” knowledge and . 
experience of all officers, an inventory of laws, regulations, precedents 
and procedure. Thére must be a sorting out and a standardisation. 
A provisional system must be adopted as a basis for progressive 
revision. 
I suggest— 
44, The preparation of a State Forest Manual parallel to that of the 
United State of America Forest Service; to be bound on the loose leaf 
principle so as to allow of revision by the substitution of new pages for old. 
45. The delegation of a epee officer to undertake its compilation and 
progressive revision. 
In the meantime, the following suggestions are offered by the United 
States of America experience with respect to the development of a system for 
each branch of forestry work. 
(1.) Forest Classification. 
Timber is an elementary necessity of State. Forest demarca- 
tion is a vital issue. 
There must be an early and complete stocktaking of the timber 
resources of each State, with a view to determining what areas 
should be reserved permanently, what temporarily, and what made 
available for settlement. Australia is a comparatively timberless 
country, and it limited forest areas are particularly precious. But 
the forests generally are situated in the regions of greatest rainfall 
and accessibility, where settlement congregates. Their possession 
consequently has been contested fiercely by the opposing interests. 
The theory of setting apart the poorer lands for forestry holds 
to an infinitely less degree here than even in Europe or America, 
since the climate, configuration, and location are such as to make in 
Australia even comparatively poor lands desirable in the eyes of 
the settler and the land speculator. 
