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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 

 Division of Forestry* 



GOVERNMENT WASTE LAND. 



At a meeting of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, held 

 on December 21, 1906, there was passed a resolution, based on 

 reports submitted by the Superintendent for Forestry and by the 

 Committee on Forestry, that further defines the policy of the 

 Board in regard to the disposition of waste land belonging to 

 the Territorial Government. 



Another report on the land of Kaohe, similar in tenor and pur- 

 port to those given below, was. approved by the Board in Decem- 

 ber, 1904, and appeared in this magazine in the issue of May, 

 1905, Vol. II, pp. 124-127. 



Following are the resolution and reports first mentioned : 



RESOLUTION IN REGARD TO THE LAND OF KAOHE, HAMAKUA, 



HAWAII. 



(Adopted by the Board of Agriculture and Forestry on December 



21, 1906.) 



Resolved, that the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and 

 Forestry approves the recommendation of the Committee on For- 

 estry in regard to the retention by the Government from sale or 

 lease of the mauka part ot the land of Kaohe, District of Hamakua, 

 Island of Hawaii, contained in a report dated Nov. ist, 1906, based 

 on a report of the Superintendent of Forestry dated Oct. 13th, 

 1906. 



Resolved, that the Board reconmiends to the Governor that the 

 portion of Kaohe lying above a line roughly described as begin- 

 ning on the boundary between Kaohe 4 and 5 at the end of the 

 mauka fence required to be built across Kaohe 4 by a lease sold 

 to Mr. A. M. Brown m December, 1904, and running in a general 

 northwesterly direction, mauka of Puu Ahumoa to Puu Laau, 

 thence northeasterly along the mauka boundary of Paauhau to Puu 

 Kemole, thence mauka of Puu Kahiamakani to a point on the divi- 

 sion line between Kaohe 3 and Kaohe 5, thence along said division 

 line to the northwest end of the existing fence across Kaohe 5, 

 built by the Kukaiau Plantation Company, thence in a general 

 southeasterly direction across Kaohe 5, following said fence, to the 

 Humuula boundary, thence following said Humuula boundary to 

 the south and west around Mauna Kea to the southeast line of 

 Kaohe 4, thence across Kaohe 4, following the above described 

 fence to the point of beginning, and also the portion of the land 

 of Kaohe that lies above the Keamuku and the 1843 ^^va flows on 

 the north slope of Mauna Loa, be for the present reserved bv the 

 Government fiom sale or lease and retained by the Land Office 

 as waste land. 



