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boundary to include tlio land recently acquired by the Land Commissioner 

 from Mr. McCandless and added to the forest reserve and on which the 

 chaulmoogra tree ])lantation Avill soon be established, was completed on 

 October 19. The fence is 4,725 feet, or .89 mile, long and includes one 

 Watergate and a double gate across the wagon road leading up to the 

 Waiahole tunnel. The whole of Waiahole Valley proper in the forest re- 

 serve is now adequately protected by a substantial stock proof fence. In 

 the construction of the -n-ater gate and the fence, pickets and spreaders 

 made from the silk oak (Grevillca robusta) and sawed up at the Makiki 

 Nursery were used. They took the nails and staples well, and, being off the 

 ground, should last for a long time. Just inside of this new fence, a double 

 row of lemon gum trees will soon be planted, not only to mark the forest 

 boundary so that it may be seen from afar, but also to give protection from 

 the wind to the trees of the ehaulmoogra plantation soon to be established 

 there. 



The other fence, completed on October 31, is a hogproof and cattje- 

 proof fence built on the boundary of the Olaa Forest Reserve, Hawaii, 

 near 24 Miles on the Volcano Road by S. Kanamori, the holder of a gov- 

 ernment lease. This fence, which was begun in June, is substantially built 

 and is 4,319 feet or .82 mile in length. The builder will continue to con- 

 struct in co-operation with this Division a stockproof fence on the boundary 

 of this same reserve where it is adjacent to private land on which he 

 holds a lease. 



Incomplete reports indicate that several of the fences on Hawaii, re- 

 quired to be built under general lease or homestead agreement conditions, 

 and to which the Land Commissioner's attention was called last August 

 because of their poor condition or non-existence, have been constructed 

 lately. These will he reported on more in detail in my report for No- 

 vember. 



Repairs to reserve fences were made by Ranger Mackenzie and Lovell 

 in the Olaa Forest Park Reserve, Sec. A, and in the Kealia and Moloaii 

 Forest Reserves, respectively, and amounted to a total of 5,203 feet, or .98 

 mile of fences. 



KULA FOREST RESERVE FENCE. 



On October 10, in company with Mr. Kraebel, I made an inspection of 

 the fence on the boundary of the Kula Forest Reserve, Maui, where it em- 

 braces the government land of Kamaole, and Avhich is supposed to have been 

 maintained in stockproof condition in accordance with certain terms in 

 Land License No. 542, issued to the Raymond Ranch interests on September 

 20, 1902. Most of the old mamani posts on this fence line are almost com- 

 pletely rotted through and scarcely any section of it is stockproof. One 

 slight touch on one of the posts resulted in the falling over of about 50 

 feet of the fence. The three smooth wires and two barbed wires are 

 slackly stretched, making it possible for cattle to get through easily in a 

 dozen or more places. In fact, the whole fence exemplified a flagrant sub- 

 terfuge for a stockproof fence which is required to be constructed and 

 maintained by a stringent clause in a government contract. Although the 

 condition of the fence has repeatedly been called to the attention of the 

 proper official during the past decade, it has been allowed to remain in this 

 uiistockproof condition. 



I am glad to report, however, that after numerous conferences on the 

 subject with the present Land Commissioner he has issued as of August 

 24, 1921, a new License for Right of Way, No. 1363, to ths Board of Trus- 

 tees for James H. and Phoebe K. Raymond, giving them the right to take 

 their share (62.5%) of water of Polipoli Spring across the forest reserve 

 lands and requiring them in turn to construct by December 23, 1921, ;jnd 

 maintain on 2.6 miles of this boundary an Apierican wire fence. With such 

 a fence completed there should be no further trouble over cattle getting 



