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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 



Honolulu, T. H., Nov. i, 1906. 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — Your Committee has had under consideration the 

 report of the Superintendent of Forestry, dated Oct. 13th, 1906, 

 concerning the land of Kaohe, District of Flamakua, Island of 

 Hawaii. 



The upper portion of the said land should, in the judgment of 

 your Committee, be classed as waste land, being unsuited for any 

 economic use now known. 



But in order that it may be available in future when it is pos- 

 sible that some use may be found for it, your Committee are in 

 favor of its retention from sale or lease by the Government. 



Your Committee therefore recommend that the Board approve 

 the suggestions of the Superintendent of Forestry and that a rec- 

 ommendation embodying them be adopted by the Board and trans- 

 mitted to the Governor and to the Commissioner of Public Lands. 



We remam, Your obedient servants. 



Very respectfully, 



L. A. Thurston, 



W. M. GiFFARD, 



Committee on Forestry. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY. 



Honolulu, Oct. 13, 1906. 

 Committee on Forestry, 



Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I have to submit the following report upon the 

 land of Kaohe, District of Hamakua, Island and County of Ha- 

 waii, with the recommendation that certain portions of this tract 

 be reserved from sale or lease, as waste land. 



Kaohe is the largest single land in the Territory, its area being 

 given in the last Land Office List as 218,257 acres. It includes 

 practically all of the upper slopes of Mauna Kea and a good share 

 of the northern slope of Mauna Loa. For purposes of classifica- 

 tion in the Land Office, Kaohe is divided into six parts. Kaohe 1 

 is cane land under a five-year lease, expiring in 1909. Kaohe 6 

 is open grazing land not under lease. All of the remainder of 

 Kaohe consists of grazing, open forest and waste land. A portion 

 of Kaohe 2 (1,035.6 acres) is under lease until January 10, 1909. 

 The lease on the remainder of Kaohe 2, wnth those on Kaohe 3, 

 4 and 5 expired on September 9, 1906, but a new 21 -year lease 



