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2 special commendation from their respective Governments. ‘The
3 services of the latter officor have been of marked use in the
4 supply of sleepers and timber to the Rajputana Railway.
5 Among the Deputy Conservators, Mr. Ribbentrop has proved
6 himself an able and zealous officer, both in the Punjab planta-
7 tions and in connection with the formation of working plans
8 for that province. Captain Bailey, R. u., deserves special mention
9 for his management of the Din, where the revenue was nearly
10 trebled under his administration. Captain Duff’s services have
11 been most useful in the preparation of sleepers in the Bias Forests
12 for the Indus Valley Railway, and he has displayed much tact
13 and judgment in his settlement of difficult questions of forest
14 rights to the entire satisfaction of the people, and with the full
15 concurrence of the civil authorities of the district. In the
16 Central Provinces, Mr. Home has earned special praise as a most
17 useful and hard-working officer. He has also given valuable
18 assistance to the committee in the preparation of the Forest
19 Code.
20 Among the Assistants, Mr. Bagshawe (who since Captain
21 Lillingston’s death has had the entire control of the heavy
22 sleeper works in the Tonse Forests of the North-Western Provinces)
23 deserves hich eredit for the administrative abilities he has shown,
24 as well as for the tact and zeal with which he has conducted the
25 duties of what has perhaps been, during the past year, the heaviest
26 executive charge in the whole range of the Forest Department.
27 Mr. Reynolds also deserves mention for his excellent maps of
28 the Punjab Forests.
29 93. During the past year, five young officers— Messrs. Laird,
30 Whittall, Gamble, Ferrars, and Jellicoe—have joined the Forest
31 Department in India after receiving a training on the Continent.
32 They are all doing well, and there can be no possible doubt as to
33 the value of the system under which they have been trained,
34 that it is one calculated to turn out thoroughly good, useful, and
35 practical officors for our Indian forests. Of the above officers,
36 Messrs. Whittall and Gamble have come under the special notice of
37 the Government of India as young men of ability, and in every
38 way likely to prove a credit to the service generally, as well as to
39 their own department.