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mountains and Avith the exception of a few kuleanas in the 

 Waianae-kai reserve consist wholly of government land. The 

 area of the Waianae-kai Forest Reserve is 3257 acres, that of 

 Luahialei 3743. 



The reports regarding the Waianae-kai Forest Reserve were 

 adopted and the resolution recommending its creation passed 

 by the Board at its meeting held on August 8th, 1906, while 

 similar action in regard to Luahialei was taken on October 

 31st, 1906. 



The public hearing to consider the Waianae-kai Forest Re- 

 serve was held on September 5th, and on September 7th Gov- 

 ernor Carter issued the proclamation officially setting the land 

 apart. 



The Luahialei hearing was held on November 28th. The 

 proclamation of that reserve is dated November 30, 1906. 



In accordance with the usual custom of the Board the reports 

 of the Committee on Forestry (two) and of the Superintendent 

 of Forestry (two) with the resolutions (two) adopted by the 

 Board in regard to these two reserves are published herewith. 

 There is also published a form of surrender signed by the Wai- 

 anae Company whereby the control of the land of Waianae- 

 kai reverts to the government on July ist, 1908. This action 

 was taken in order to enable the Governor to set apart the 

 reserve under the two-year clause of the law, and also to allow 

 new arrangements to be made for the use of the water from the 

 reserve. It is the first time that such a step has been taken and 

 is eloquent testimony as to what a leading plantation company 

 thinks of the value of forest reserves. 



RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE PROPOSED WAIANAE-KAI 

 FOREST RESERVE. 



Resolved, that those certain lands in the District of W^ai- 

 anae, Island of Oahu, bounded in general terms, as follows : 



Lying on the West and North slope of the Waianae valley, 

 bounded on the West by the land of Alakaha, on the North by 

 the land of Waianae-uka, on the East and South by a line 

 drawn approximately along the foot of the steep mountain 

 slope; and containing an area of 3,150 acres, more or less, as 

 recommended by a report of the Committee on Forestry, dated 

 August 8th, 1906, based on reports of the Superintendent of- 

 Forestry, dated April 4th and July 31st, 1906, which reports 



