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apart and because of this much of the inspection period is wasted 

 in covering- each respective district. Until the staff of inspectors 

 is materially increased it will be absolutely impossible to properly 

 inspect not only the three important districts above named, but 

 also district 8. This latter takes in the Kaimuki and Kapiolani 

 Park residential areas, a section which is at present very badly 

 infected. 



General Conditions in Inspected Districts. 



The destruction of large quantities of fruit (principally sweet 

 and Chinese oranges, loquats, coffee berries and eugenias, etc., 

 in districts 3, 4, 5 and 6 has brought about a marked improve- 

 ment in the inspection of these sect.ons. It is, however, to be re- 

 gretted that there are still a few residents who do not care to 

 strip their orange and other trees of uninfected ripe or part ripe 

 fruit. The majority, however, have heartily cooperated and are 

 still doing what they can to assist the work in hand. If all the 

 residents in the above districts worked heartily and hand in hand to 

 keep their orange, coft'ee and other trees entirely stripped of fruit 

 for the next three months there would no doubt be a marked dif- 

 ference in the infestation of mango and alligator pear trees when 

 these come into bearing shortly. Leaving fruit on the trees at 

 this season and under the improved fruit Hy conditions, which at 

 this time exist in the districts above named, only enhances the 

 chances for reinfestation of the whole neighborhood where such 

 fruits have been allowed to remain on trees. Some residents have 

 altogether stripped their trees of the remaining fruits, preferring 

 if possible, to secure comparative immunity from infestation when 

 their alligator pears come into season, while others do not appear 

 to take any interest in this phase of the situation, preferring, it 

 would appear, to leave their part-ripe fruit on the-trees and there- 

 by bring about the reinfestation above referred to. That a few 

 scattered residents should take this attitude is to be deplored. 

 Fortunately, such people are in the minority, but in sufffcient num- 

 ber to cause much extra work because of repeated inspection of 

 their fruit trees. The scarcity of ripe fruit at the present time in 

 the districts named must compel the adult flies to seek hosts in 

 which to breed, and all g-reen or part-ripe fruit left on the trees 

 will in consequence be attacked long before it would be in a con- 

 dition for use. Such being the case, it is regrettable. that a whole- 

 sale clean-up of the balance of the orange crops cannot be inaug- 

 urated. Unless the fruit shows signs of infection the inspectors 

 are powerless under the present regulations. On the contrary, 

 should the inspector notice infected fruit on the tree he can and 

 does compel its destruction. 



