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17. Staff Requirements and Qualifications. —The staff of the Training Centre will consist of at least six lecturers (including the Principal), and will provide instruction in all essential subjects, tentatively grouped as follows : (1) Administration, Policy, Law, and Economics. (2) Forest Botany, Silviculture. (3) Utilization, Forest Products. (4) Surveying, Engineering. (5) Forest Management, Mensuration. (6) Forest Protection. The Principal and at least one lecturer will be full-time staff attached to the Training Centre. The remaining lecturers will be on the staff of the Forest Experiment Station. All lecturers, including the Principal, will have degree qualifications in forestry or cognate subjects and appropriate experience of high order, with the possible exception of the lecturer in surveying, who may be a registered surveyor with forestry experience. 18. Buildings and Equipment for Training Centre and Experiment Station. —An •educational and investigational enterprise of such magnitude and value is worthy of dignified and appropriately equipped buildings. The main separate uuits will consist of — (a) The school, with adequate provision for lecture-rooms, laboratories, museumassembly hall, and administration offices. (b) The hostel, to accommodate 30 to 40 students, with a cubicle for each student and a joint study for every two students. (c) The experiment station, with accommodation for investigational officers, laboratories, and forest-product-testing equipment. (d) Residences for married members of the staff. 19. Training for a Career in Forestry. —It is reasonable to assume that the State Forest Service will continue to be the employer of the great majority of students seeking a career in forestry. Thus, as a result of its recruitment and training policy inaugurated immediately prior to the war, the Forest Service is committed to the completion of the training of 103 young men (many until recently in the Armed Forces) appointed to the staff on probation as technical trainees, 3 of whom have completed their B.Sc. and 14 ■others of whom are at present studying for their degree in anticipation of post-graduate training. Further recruitment will be at the rate of 20 trainees a year, as this is the minimum that will give the final net annual accession of 12 after allowing for non-effectives due to transfers, losses, failures, and other causes. As previously indicated, students outside the Forest Service will be granted equal facilities at the Training Centre, but their -courses will have to be paid for at prescribed rates. 20. Independent Board of Management.—The cardinal function of the Training Centre is to teach forestry subjects, but instruction in departmental practices will also be given as a subordinate though nevertheless essential function. For this reason, in the case of both the post-graduate and the diploma courses (see clauses (a) and (b) of paragraph 16), only forestry tuition is planned, and in order to effect this objective it is proposed that their administration shall be entirely removed from departmental control by setting up 3, board of management to be under the control of and solely responsible to the Senate of the University of New Zealand. It has been tentatively suggested that the Board might consist of—(a) Representative nominated by the New Zealand University Senate (Chairman ex officio); (b) Representative nominated by the Auckland University Council as the nearest constituent University college ; (c) The Principal of the Training Centre ; (d) Representative of the New Zealand Institute of Foresters (not to be a member of the Forest Service) ; and (c) Representative of the Director of Forestry.

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