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forest affords stock the Kukaiau Plantation has proposed to 

 Mr. Pratt that he put up Kaohe 2 for lease with the require- 

 ment that a certain part of the land be planted with Blue gum 

 (Eucalyptus globulus) trees ; the stock to be kept out until the 

 trees grow large enough to care for themselves. I heartily 

 approve of this plan and am now having prepared by Mr. 

 Haughs a planting plan under which the work could be done. 

 If natural reproduction of Blue gum takes place in Hama- 

 kua as it has in certain other upland districts of the Territory 

 this section may in time come under a forest cover of this 

 Eucalypt. 



• Very respectfully, 



Ralph S. Hosmer, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



CHANGE OF FOREST RESERVE BOUNDARY. 



Significant action was taken by the Board of Agriculture 

 and Forestry on December 21, 1906, when a resolution was 

 adopted approving the recommendation of the Superintendent 

 of Forestrv that the location of the boundary of the Halelea 

 Forest Reserve be modified to exclude certain land that it had 

 been found could be used for agriculture. This is the first 

 case to come up under the law passed* at the last session of 

 the Legislature (Act 65 of IQ05) that permits the Governor 

 to withdraw land from forest reserves. A surveyor is now on 

 the ground. When his work is completed a further report, 

 with recommendations will be submitted to the Board by the 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



Following are the reports and resolution above mentioned : 



RESOLUTION IN REGARD TO A PROPOSED CHANGE IN THE BOUNDARY 

 OF THE HALELEA FOREST RESERVE^ ISLAND OF KAUAI. 



(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 Forestry in a report dated November ist, 1906, based on a 

 report of the Superintendent of Forestry, dated October 15th, 

 1906, that the makai boundary line of the Halelea Forest Re- 

 serve be relocated with the idea of excluding from the reserve 

 certain areas which it is believed can be used for diversified 

 industries more advantageously than for forest. 



Resolved, that the Board approve as defining its policy on 

 the subject so brought up, the statement, that when it becomes 

 possible through changed conditions of market, transportation, 



