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iKHUKlary of Kalawahine to the main Tantalus road across the 

 forest and along- the same and the upper boundary of the Makiki 

 homestead lots : thence on the makai boundary of the Alakiki park 

 around the INIakiki valley to the summit of Sugar Loaf and down 

 the slope into jManoa ; thence around Alanoa valley at the base 

 of the steep pali and following the boundary of the government 

 land at the head of the valley to the Palolo ridge ; down the same 

 to the makai side of a small piece of government forest called 

 I'ukele. and thence across Palolo valley on the mauka boundary 

 of W'ailupe and of lot 13 of the Palolo homesteads. Returning, 

 the proposed boundary follows up the Waiomao-Waialae ridge to 

 the backbone ridge of the island and then west along it to the 

 lateral ridge separating Kalihi and Kahauiki, down which it runs 

 to the point of beginning. 



Considerable private land is included in this reserve, some of 

 it unavoidably, some purposely, as in Palolo valley, where it was 

 thought best to make the limits of the reserve take in certain 

 possible reservoir sites that it may some time be advisable for the 

 city to develop. As with other Hawaiian forest reserves, the fact 

 that these private lands are included within the boundary is to be 

 taken merely as a recommendation as to the line which this Board 

 thinks ought to be the permanent boundary of the forest. Only 

 the land owned by the government, of course, can actually be set 

 apart. 



Accompanying this report is the technical descrii^tion of boun- 

 dary prepared by the Government Survey Office as C. S. F. 

 No. 2429. 



Rccoiiniiciidatioii. 



For the reasons above set forth I do now recommend that the 

 P>oard approve this project and request the governor to create 

 the Honolulu forest reserve and to set apart in accordance with 

 law and custom, as portions thereof, the government lands williin 

 its boundary. 



\'ery respectfully, 



Ralph S. Hosmer, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



Modiiicatioii of Botiiularx, Moloaa Forest Rcsci^'C. Kauai. 



1 londhilu, June P), 1''13. 



Gentlemen: — I have to recommend a change of boundary in 

 the Moloaa forest reserve, Kauai, more particularly in that por- 

 tion which lies in what is now known as the district of Kawaihau. 

 The change will result in the elimination of i^.^ acres of open land 

 and the reduction of the total area of the reserve from 5670 acres 

 to .^.^X7 acres. Sevenlv-one acres is government land; the re- 



