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the area burned over at looo acres. He states that the damage is 

 nominal as the trees burned were mostly dead timber. 



Mr. John A. Scott, District Fire Warden for Hilo, reports 

 brush fires on one of the Ponohawaii homestead lots and also on 

 one of the homestead lots on the land of Kukuau Second, back of 

 Hilo Town both of which were got under control before any 

 damage was done to the forest. These fires occurred on 

 March 7th. 



Mr. Scott also reports a grass fire that started on the Waiakea 

 beach lands on March 12th. This fire died out when the wind 

 which was spreading it went down. If the wind had not abated, it 

 is quite likely that it would have run in the same direction as 

 did a fire two years ago, which burned over a section of the 

 lower Waiakea forest. 



Two other fires on Hawaii have also been reported, both of 

 which started on the 7th of ]\Iarch. One of these was in the 

 vicinity of Puu Oo, at the upper edge of the Hilo Forest Re- 

 serve, back of Hilo Town. Of this fire I have not yet learned 

 the details. The other fire started on Pakua Hill near Hilea, 

 Kau, back of the Naalehu plantation. This fire was reported to" 

 me by Messrs, W. G. Irwin & Company, who had received word 

 from Mr. C. Wolters, the manager and District Fire Warden. I 

 have since received a report directly from ]\Ir. \A'olters. The 

 plantation turned out a large gang of men which, after a hard 

 fight, extinguished the fire on the afternoon of March 8th. Mr. 

 Wolters says that "it was only by great and repeated efforts that 

 the flames were prevented from escaping into the Ninole and 

 Kaalaiki Hills, from whence they would have spread over the 

 whole mountain side." 



I have also been informed by Messrs. W. G. Irwin & Company 

 that a fire had been started by some natives who had been burn- 

 ing brush on one of the Kamae homesteads, back of Hakalau 

 plantation, and was only stopped from getting into the forest by 

 the efforts of a gang of 300 men. 



On Alarch 20th, a fire was reported by Mr. G. W. McDougall 

 on the land of Honokua, District of Kona. The Board, being 

 unable to order out men to fight this fire, instructed Mr. Mc- 

 Dougall to warn the persons on whose land the fire had been 

 started, that they would be held responsible if the fire escaped 

 and did injury to other lands. I expect to hear further from Mr. 

 McDougall in regard to this fire. 



