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side world for the supply of many important commodities. The 

 annual importations ot lime are valued at about an eighth of a 

 million dollars, and if the quality of the new company's product 

 continues to be equal to that of its first samples, there is little 

 doubt that the local firm will be called upon to supply most of the 

 Hawaiian market. 



The new kilns at Iwilei are thoroughly modern, and although 

 they bear little resemblance to the old type of apparatus, the 

 process involved in the manufacture of lime is identical with that 

 carried on for countless ages. Each kiln consists in brief of a 

 large vertical steel cylinder, thickly lined with fire brick and hav- 

 ing an inside diameter of four feet six inches. The fuel used is 

 oil, and while the calcining process is continued the lime is re- 

 moved from below and fresh supplies of limestone added to the 

 top of the kiln. The latter is constructed so as to be kept in 

 operation day and night, thus obviating the former method of 

 allowing time for cooling. The lime is collected upon a cement 

 floor, where after cooling, it is packed into barrels and' is then 

 ready for shipment. The kilns have an estimated capacity of one 

 hundred tons each per day of twenty-four hours. 



The limestone used is quarried at Waianae, from whence it is 

 brought by rail direct to the kilns. The company has also estab- 

 lished a cooper shop w^here it is constructing its own barrels. 



THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC 



ARTS. 



APPOINTMENT OF ACTING DEAN. 



Mr. Willis T. Pope, of the science department of the Honolulu 

 Normal School, has been appointed Acting Dean of the College 

 of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory, in the place 

 of the late Mr. J. E. Roadhouse, whose decease was recently an- 

 nounced. The organization of the new institution will be pro- 

 ceeded with immediately on the new High School site near 

 Thomas Square. As soon as the development of the College per- 

 mits, it will remove to its permanent quarters in Manoa Valley, 

 adjoining the Mid-Pacific Institute, where a tract of over thirty 

 acres of excellent land is reserved for it. 



The task of establishing a College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts in its numerous departments will be no light one. In the 

 selection of Mr. Pope for this work, however, the Regents have 

 acquired one who, besides the ordinary requisites of education 

 and experience, has knowledge- of tropical and local agriculture, 

 and possesses the confidence of the community. 



