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Instructions for propagating; rubber trees have recently been 

 issued by the Forestry Department of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture and Forestry. The department has recently secured sup- 

 plies of fresh Ceara rubber seeds and is distributing them to 

 anyone who will undertake to plant them and report to the 

 Board the results they obtain. At Nahiku, on Maui, Ceara rub- 

 ber trees have attained sixteen feet growth within a year and 

 it is desirous of experimenting in other localities in order to 

 ascertain under what conditions in Hawaii the Ceara grows 

 best. In its natural habitat, and in those localities in which 

 it has been cultivated with success, the tree has been subjected 

 to a moderately dry climate. It is therefore remarkable that 

 such a rapid development should have been attained at Nahiku 

 where the rainfall is excessive. It is hoped that the ofifer of 

 the Board of Forestry will be widely responded to in order 

 that the best rubber growing districts may be ascertained. 



By an agreement with Mr. H. P. Baldwin, representing the 

 large planting companies of central Maui, a largie tract of pri- 

 vate land comprising over forty thousand acres has been placed 

 for a period of seventeen years under the administration of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry. The government will 

 maintain the land in question together with its own portion of 

 the watershed of the northern side of Maui, as a forest reserve, 

 certain privileges of commercial use under the direction of the 

 Superintendent of Forestry being conceded the grantees. 



Instructions have recently been received from the Light- 

 house Board of Washington directing the immediate draught- 

 ing of plans for a lighthouse at Makapuu. Sixty thousand 

 dollars w^as appropriated for this purpose during the recent 

 congressional session. It is expected that the new light will be 

 a revolving one erected 150 feet above sea level. Such a light 

 is visible thirty miles at sea and its maintenance will require 

 the services of three men. 



