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inspection of forest planting on Kohala Mountain, above Waimea 

 village, of fences on forest reserve boundaries on the land of 

 Humuula, and of forest planting in progress under the require- 

 ments of government leases on both the Kukaiau and the Parker 

 ranches. I also visited two oT the experimental tree-planting 

 plats on the slopes of Mauna Kea and the forest nurseries of- the 

 Parker Ranch at Waimea and Waikii. 



Owing to the long continued dry weather, all forest planting, 

 both on the Parker Ranch and at Kukaiau, has been delayed. 

 Especially at Waimea a large number of seedling' trees have had 

 to be held in the nursery awaiting suitable conditions until they 

 could be planted out. The trees planted in 1911 and 1912 on the 

 government land of Puukapu, above the old Puukapu Home- 

 steads and on the adjoining fee simple land of Waikoloa, have 

 made an encouraging start, with very few losses, but the trees are 

 not as far advanced in growth as they would have been had the 

 weather conditions been more favorable. 



While at Waimea I also looked carefully into the ciuestion of 

 doing further planting on the government land on the mountain 

 and of fencing the Kohala Mountain Forest Reserve boundary. 



Forest Fire Record. 



A forest fire in the upper portion of the Ninole Homesteads, 

 Kau, Hawaii, is reported by the local district fire warden, Mr. 

 Geo. Gibb of Naalehu, as having occurred on April 20. "About 

 300 acres of farm and scrub guava lands'' were burned over. The 

 burnt area "did not extend to the forest proper, confining itself 

 to the valley between Pakua and the land of Punaluu." It was 

 fought by laborers from the Makanau and Xinole camps of the 

 Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Company under the direction of 

 ]Mr. de la Nux, head luna for that section. 



At the meeting of the Board of Commissioners, held on April 

 23, 1913. the following additional appointments were made in the 

 staff of district fire wardens : 



Kauai. 



Mr. Frank A. Alexander, in and for that portion of the Dis- 

 trict of Kona extending from the Hanapepe Valley to the Puna 

 District line. 



Mr. Gaylord P. Wilcox, in and for that portion of the Dis- 

 tricts of Koolau and Puna extending from the land of Anahola 

 to the land of Olohena inclusive. 



Oahu. 



Mr. Andrew Adams, in and for that portion of the District of 

 Koolauloa lying to the north and east of the lands of Kaunala. 



