357 



The greater part of the area included in the Hana Forest 

 Reserve is made up by the tract known as the Hana Forest. 

 The area of this tract as given in the last land list is ii,8oo 

 acres, of which 7,500 acres are under lease to the Kaeleku 

 Sugar Company, Limited, until ]May i, 1917. The remainder, 

 4.300 acres, is not now under lease. 



Other forest lands within the reserve under lease to the 

 Kaeleku Sugar Company, Limited, are the lands of Koali and 

 Puuhaoa, Lease No. 479B, which expires December 5, 1913; 

 a portion of Wakiu. Lease No. 518, which expires May 2, 1920; 

 and a portion of East Honomaele, Lease No. 474, which ex- 

 pires August 17, 1908. 



The important unleased government lands, portions of which 

 are within the reserve, are Puualu. Paehala, Wailua, AVaio- 

 honu and Kakio, as well as some remnants which cannot now 

 be accuratelv described. Wailua and Waiohonu were formerly 

 classed as * crown lands"'; all the other Territorial lands in the 

 reserve were "government lands." 



Portions of the following privately owned lands are also 

 within the reserve boundary: West Honomaele, Aleamai, Ha- 

 neoo and Ivluolea. These lands are all either owned or con- 

 trolled by the Kaeleku Sugar Company, Limited. The approx- 

 imate areas of the portions of them within the projposed forest 

 reserve is given by the Survey Office as follows : 



Acres. 



West Honomaele 187 



Aleamai 357 



Haneoo 84 



]\[uolea 430 



1058 



There are also some remnants of fee simple land above the 

 forest line, but their combined area is small. 



The total area of the reserve is given by the Survey Office 

 as approximately 14,825 acres. Of this about 8,100 acres is 

 covered by Leases Nos. 492 and 579B, about 1,058 acres is fee 

 simple land, while the remainder, 5,667 acres, more or less, is 

 for the most part unleased government forest land. It is this 

 portion that it is now proposed to set apart as a section of 

 the Hana Forest Reserve. 



