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class in English every Wednesday afternoon in which they re- 

 ceived such drill as should have been received in the lower grades. 

 Prof. Scott remarked that even high school seniors continued to 

 make these common errors, already mentioned, and the only solu- 

 tion to the problem was to constantly drill them in good English 

 and insist on their using it in speaking and writing. He said the 

 Chinese made the most mistakes, and second the Hawaiians and 

 part-Hawaiians, who spoke Hawaiian at home. He asked that 

 the primary and grammar grades do their part in preparing the 

 students for the high school and then the high school teachers 

 would do the rest. 



Apropos of tree planting by sugar plantation companies, the 

 suggestion made by Mr. James Gibb, manager of Honolulu Plan- 

 tation, Oahu, at the annual meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar 

 Planters' Association, is of interest as indicating the trend of 

 opinion among plantation men. Mr. Gibb recommended that each 

 plantation company set out one tree for every ton of sugar pro- 

 duced during the past year. As the total output for the Territory 

 for 1911 was 566,821 tons, this would make a very creditable 

 showing. 



FRUITFLY CONTROL. 



Honolulu, February 26, 1912. 



To the President and Commissioners of the Board of Agriculture 

 and Forestry, Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentlemen : — As previously advised, the Mediterranean fruit- 

 fly made its appearance in the North Kohala district on the Island 

 of Hawaii during the latter part of January. In consequence of 

 this and in order to prevent, if possible, its introduction into other 

 districts of that Island, your director suggested that he and the 

 superintendent of entomology visit Hawaii for the inirpose of 

 hastening the organization of committees to take charge of such 

 campaign as might be found necessary. With the permission of 

 the president of the board, I requested that Mr. Ehrhorn be sent 

 direct to Kohala to investigate that district and to, if possible, 

 secure data as to the limits of infestation. He was also requested 

 to secure the organization of a special committee to handle con- 

 ditions in such manner as any subse(|uent regulations of your 

 board might make necessary. Mr. Ehrhorn's visit to Kohala and 

 the result of his work and investigation are given in dilail in his 

 report to me under date of Voh. 20, a copy of which I beg to 

 submit herewith. His report is self-explanatory. 



The organization of campaign committees in the llilo, Kau 

 and Kona districts was ])ersonally attended to tluring a recent visit 



