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apparent that no systematic work as to efficient disposal of fruit 

 can be expected from the county vmtil it adopts a free garbage 

 system and increases its equipment. In the meantime we are our- 

 selves hauling to the incinerator as much infested fruit as our 

 limited means will allow. A number of householders, within the 

 garbage limits, having sufficient trash on their premises to burn 

 their fallen fruit, prefer that method to taking chances on a 

 weekly or bi-weekly system of collecting as at present prevails. 

 Furthermore, householders complain that when the fruit is not 

 promptly carted away from the sidewalk by the garbage depart- 

 ment, certain classes of school children rummage the containers 

 and distribute a part of the contents on the sidewalk, where it i,s 

 left to rot unless the householder troubles himself to sweep it up. 

 The complaints referred to are not particularly against the offi- 

 cials of the garbage department, as these have from the beginning 

 of the campaign shown a desire to cooperate to the best of their 

 ability. The trouble evidently lies in the fact that there is no 

 free garbage system and because of a shortage of teams to col- 

 lect daily and bi-weekly on all thoroughfares throughout the 

 garbage limits. 



INSULAR CONDITIONS. 



A sample of fruit infested with the larvae of a species of fly 

 has been sent this department from the W'aikapu district on the 

 Island of Maui. Others gathered in Kula and Ulupalakua, 

 Maui, by Mr. G. P. Wilder, were also turned over to us for ex- 

 amination. All these samples are exceedingly suspicious and it 

 is quite probable that the Mediterranean fruitfly will be bred from 

 at least one, if not all, of them. Should such be the case and 

 owing to the wide range of distribution, it would go far to show 

 that, in all probability, the fly has been on. Maui for some months, 

 but for some reason or another has not been discovered by either 

 the local authorities or residents. The same conditions may also 

 prevail in districts on Hawaii, where, up to the present, the pest 

 has not been discovered. It is quite unfortunate that the lack of 

 funds prevented Hawaii and Maui from organizing and exclud- 

 ing Hawaiian grown fruits from their local ports at an earlier 

 period than they did. This they and all the other islands should 

 have done as soon as it was reported that the fruitfly existed on 

 Oahu. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



As intimated in my last report the services of Dr. F. Silvestri 

 have been secured for a twelve months' period to search for 

 specific parasites on the Mediterranean fruitfly and cotton boll- 

 worm. Final instructions were sent to Dr. Silvestri about three 

 weeks ago and he is probably on his way to tropical West Africa 

 by this time. Two or three months ago I communicated with 

 the minister of agriculture for West Australia in connection with 



