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APPENDIX X Training and Recruitment, 1948-49

APPENDIX XI National Forest Survey

The above areas are derived by proportion from the sampling pattern of each unit.

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Course. | Serial No. 1 Period. Number Attended. Rotorita Forest Training Centre Professional Officer 2 1 week . . 14 Fourth-grade Rangers 3 8 weeks .. 18 Fourth-grade Rangers 4 8 weeks .. 14 Soil Science .. . . . . 4 days 20 Trainee Preliminary . . 5 4 weeks .. 21 Trainee Senior 2 8 weeks .. 18 Timber Inspectors 2 weeks .. 8 Timber Measurers 7 8 weeks . . 15 Clerical Officer 2 3 weeks .. 15 Clerical Officer 3 3 weeks .. 16 Fire Protection 2 2 weeks .. 17 Fire Protection 3 2 weeks .. 18 Tapanui Forest Vocational School Junior Labourers 12 1 2 weeks .. 16 Leading Hand 13 8 weeks .. j 19

Unit. Completed During 1948-49. Total Completed at 31st March, 1949. Number of • Plots. Area. Number of Plots. Area. Acres. Acres. Coromandel 879 140,000 1,484 236,000 Rotorua 15 2,000 1,087 328,000 Te Whaiti 438 67,000 West Taupo 1,222 278,000 East Coast 58 13,000 58 13,000 Taranaki .. 139 22,000 139 22,000 Westland . . . . 878 140,000 1,322 211,000 Woodlaw . . . . 255 6,000 345 8,000 West Waiau 461 147,000 1,001 322,000 Longwood 310 80,000 Waikaia .. 130 130,000 2,685 470,000 7,536 1,695,000