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Division of Forestr}' 



HonoKiln, Hawaii, February 12, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriciiltrre and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit the following routine re- 

 port of the Division of Forestry for the month of January, 1916: 



FOREST FENCING. 



As authorized by the Board at the January 6 meeting, I ad- 

 vertised for bids for the fencing of Section A of the Olaa Forest 

 Park Reserve, Hawaii, and on January 29 opened the two bids 

 which were received. One amounted to $732.80, and the other 

 to $2193.75. Owing to the great difference between these two 

 amounts, I surmised that the lowest bidder had not well enough 

 acquainted himself with the conditions on the ground, which, on 

 account of the presence of lava rock, will make the cost of post- 

 hole digging quite expensive. I called this matter to his atten- 

 tion, and he submitted a new bid in the sum of $1025. Believing 

 that the public interest would be subserved thereby, and in fair- 

 ness to the other bidder, I rejected both bids and have readver- 

 tised a call for bids to be opened in this office on February 28. 



AWA PERMIT. 



The permit of Mr. C. ]\I. Hudson for gathering two tons of 

 awa in the Puna Forest Reserve, Havv^aii, was on January 7 ex- 

 tended so that he has until [March 1, 1916, to gather this mate- 

 rial. This extension was authorized at the Board meeting of 

 January 6. 



HAW' All TRIP. 



From January 19 to 25 I was on a trip to the Island of Hawaii 

 and spent a large part of the time acquainting myself with the 

 government land of Piha, in the Hilo Forest Reserve, preliminary 

 to submitting my final recommendations as to what should be 

 done with this land. The Kukaiau Ranch has been engaged in 

 taking the cattle out of the upper part of this land, and approxi- 

 mately 130 head have already been removed. There are said to 

 be about 100 more head in the forest reserve farther makai. 

 These are, however, being taken out as rapidly as they can be 

 caught. Owing to the erroneous maps of this region and in- 

 definite location of some of the government land boundaries in 

 this part of the Hilo reserve, I have requested the government 

 surveyor to have the essential lines rerun, and he has promised 

 to send up a surveyor during February for this purpose. The 

 resulting map will, undoubtedly, show the correct boundary lines 



