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A few more points remain. The collection of hut-tax in rubber where cash is not available; the purchase of rubber and other produce at tariff rate by every 
Administratador so as to protect the native from the wily Banyan ; the extensive sowing of Mangrove where White Mangrove now predominates ; and the opemng up of the 
ZTaToTer hardwood forests along the main and Swaziland lines under payment of a royalty per ton where loaded on rad ; these constitute the further points of action 
necessary to utilise the forests and forest products to their best advantage. 
Whether all these recommendations, if adopted, can be carried out by the departmental staffs as presently constituted, or require the addition of another department 
or sub-department or of additional officers, is an administrative matter which the exigencies of the public service must decide. The Government is particularly fortunate in such 
of its officers as I had the opportunity to meet, but it appeared to me that, in regard to the country ones at least, each had already more ,n hand than one man could well do. 
The technical work involved in transforming a whole forest district into a productive and remunerative agricultural area covers the whole stretch of science and art, and it is 
almost too much to expect that officers trained principally to the collection of hut-tax and administration of justice can at once pick up all the threads. The work must proceed 
gradually in any case, but what is necessary to ensure a good foundation, is the evolution and adoption of such a plan of action as can be taken up piece by piece, partly m one 
place and partly elsewhere, carried on when funds are available, held in partial suspense when funds are low, but which in every action undertaken works towards one common 
aim, and finally arrives at the goal it started for. t f 
The whole process may be objected to by some on the ground that it is de-forestation, and that it carries climatic effects m its train. That it is de-forestation in the 
first case is true, but it is only recommended as clearing for agriculture, and that agriculture may either at once or after a time include afforestation on regular lines and in 
paying crops. The forest under present circumstances yields practically nothing ; selection from it would extract its value and leave an empty skeleton, as has happened 
in so many other countries ; what I recommend is its utilization piece by piece and in such manner that what is cleared must go into other crop, while what is not cleared is 
left intact. In this way agriculture in places replaces natural forest, the climate may be altered but in the direction of being more healthy, and if any effect on the local rainfall 
is produced, it can only be after the execution of operations on a larger scale than I can anticipate in the near future. 
The Province is full of potential wealth, it only requires careful handling in the extraction of that wealth, to use and not abuse the legacy which nature has so lavishly 
provided. 
