AUSTRALIAN RECOMMENDATIONS. XVIE. 
149. The carbon copy system of communication should be availed of 
largely. 
150. The adoption of the United States of America Forest Service Promise 
Card Box and “ follow up” system is recommended. 
151. Letter-size paper should be adopted as a standard size in lieu of the 
ancient cumbersome and uneconomical foolscap. 
152. A great deal of time, labour, and material would be saved by the 
elimination from all official correspondence of the department of the formal 
phraseology “I have the honour to be, Sir,” “ Your Obedient Servant,” and 
the replacement by “ Yours faithfully.” 
153. District forestry offices should be supplied with mimeographs for 
circularising purposes. 
(13.) Forest Bookkeeping. 
154. The payment of all royalties and charges in advance of operation 
is a feature of the United States of America system, which should be adopted, 
at all events, to the extent of requiring deposits equal to a month’s timber 
cut. 
155. The concentration of revenue collection at the district forestry offices, 
under the American system, would reduce bookkeeping work and the possi- 
bility of mistake or fraud. The system is recommended. It is virtually the 
Queensland system. 
156. In establishing an accounting plan for the Forest Service the card 
system should be adopted as the basis. 
157. A detailed cost-keeping scheme for the entire Forest Service should 
be drawn up and put into operation. 
158. District financial management should be based on a system of appro- 
priations and allotments consequent upon the submission of annual estimates. 
(14.) Publicity and Publications. 
The virtues of publicity in forestry work should be recognised. 
“Tt is desirable that all proper opportunities should be afforded the 
public to understand the work of the Forest Service and the principles 
and application of forestry.” 
159. District foresters should be authorised to supply forestry information 
for publication, with the proviso that controversy, self-advertisement, and 
partisan discussion of questions of policy, as well as criticisms of any other 
department, are to be avoided. 
160. Addresses by forest officers on-forestry matters should be encouraged, 
provided there is some administrative control thereof. 
161. Forest libraries for the use of the local staff should be established at 
each district office; forestry works, periodicals, scientific journals, and forest 
photographs should be furnished to such libraries. 
162. The publication of forestry information through the medium of 
departmental bulletins, pamphlets, reviews, and general news, should be 
widely extended. 
(15.) Timber Conversion and Utilisation. 
163. The adoption of scientific power logging should be encouraged, where 
the stand warrants, and where it will not be of detriment to the forest. The 
method of logging should be subject to Forest Service approval. 
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