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port shipments of all kinds of fruit, including bananas and pines, 

 to the Pacific Coast. iMr. Weinland has hardly had time to enter 

 upon any special line of work, but will no doubt do so very short- 

 ly. He is also expected to cooperate with the special line of cam- 

 paign work now under the supervision of your director. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. M. GiFFARD, 



Honorary Member Entomological Committee, 



Board of Agriculture and Forestry, T. H. 



DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



Honolulu, December 30, 1911. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit as follows the report 

 of the Division of Forestry for the month of December, 1911: 



H. S. P. A. Meeting. 



At the annual session of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Asso- 

 ciation, held the first week of December, I delivered a short ad- 

 dress on the need of forest work in Hawaii, with special refer- 

 ence to the sugar plantations, and, in connection with the sug- 

 gestion that the water revenues from forest reserves be used for 

 forest work, outlined briefly a plan for forest fencing, tree plant- 

 ing and protection by a ranger service on the more important 

 forests. 



Following the report of the chairman of the committee on 

 forestry, Mr. Albert Horner, the Association adopted a resolu- 

 tion calling upon the trustees to take action on the following 

 specific recommendations : ( 1 ) That a careful investigation be 

 made of the possibility of introducing insect-eating birds into 

 Hawaii; (2) that financial assistance be given the Division of 

 Forestry in its work of propagating seedling trees for corpora- 

 tions desiring large numbers of seedlings; (3) that "it be brought 

 forcibly to the attention of each plantation that it is the judgment 

 of the Association that, for their own interest and strictly from 

 a business standpoint, the individual plantations ought to pay 

 greater attention to tree planting and also to protecting the na- 

 tive forest by fencing;" (4) that "the Association approves the 

 adoption by the Territory, as its definite policy, of the suggestion 

 that as far as practicable the revenues derived by the government 

 from the leases or licenses of waters flowing from the forest re- 

 serves be used in forest work, and that the trustees be requested 

 so to recommend to the appropriate Territorial offi.cials " 



