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On all of these lands it is the policy of the owner to protect 

 the forest and carry out provisions looking- to the maintenance 

 of the area as a forest reserve. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



For the reasons ahove set forth, I therefore recommend that 

 the Board adopt a resolution requesting the Acting Governor (i) 

 to declare as the Kau Forest l\.e.<^erve 1;he area described above, 

 and (2) to set apart as portions thereof all of the government 

 lands lying within the said boundary, which are not now under 

 lease or on which the existing leases are within two years of 

 expiration. 



I further recommend that whenever new leases are made, either 

 for the lands adjoining the reserve or for the rights to prospect 

 for and develop water within the reserve itself, clauses be in- 

 serted providing that the existing forest reserve boundary fences 

 be maintained in good condition ; and, whenever and wherever 

 it may become necessary in the future to better protect the forest in 

 localities not now fenced, that the lessee be required to build and 

 maintain fences along such portions of the forest line. 



If the lands continue to be used as at present such fencing 

 will, except perhaps in a few cases, be unnecessary. A case in 

 point is the section above Pahala where the line of the Emerson 

 flume is taken as the boundary of the reserve. It is expected 

 that this line will serve without needing to be fenced, but if 

 in the future it should appear that the forest above is receding 

 or being injured through lack of protection, the clause suggested 

 would remedy the difficulty. 



I would again call attention here to the suggestion made above 

 that if it is possible under the law, some recognition should in my 

 judgment be taken of the work done by the plantation interests 

 in Kau in developing a water supply on government land, where- 

 by it has been possible to bring considerable additional areas 

 under a high state of cultivation, with corresponding financial 

 returns. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



In closing this report I wash to express my appreciation of the 

 courtesies extended to- me during my visits to Kau by Messrs. 

 C. Wolters and Julian Monsarrat. To both these gentlemen, 

 particularly to Mr. Monsarrat, I am indebted for assistance en- 



