SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
of the interior. Such a range of forest conditions would enable a student to 
acquire knowledge which would equip him for service in any forests in Australia. 
The New South Wales authorities have chosen a site for a school near Gosford, 
and are now seeking a principal and staff. It is to be hoped that the school will 
be soon an established fact, and that it will be on such broad lines that it will 
become the school for the whole Commonwealth. With the working plans oflicers 
to lay down the plans of the management of the State forests, and the Australian- 
trained staff of district officers to supervise the carrying out of the plans, the 
foundations of the professional staff will be well laid. 
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TIMBER COUNTRY AT NAYOOK, VICTORIA. 
The next requirement will be a trained subordinate staff of foresters. These 
men will be the N.C.O.’s of the forest army, and it is essential that they also should 
receive a thorough practical training, though it is not necessary for them to reach 
the high degree of education and theoretical training that the professional 
foresters attain. It is possible that a system of apprenticeship, combined with 
instruction given in camps from time to time by a peripatetic lecturer, would give 
good results. The forester’s duties should consist of looking after the gangs of 
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