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the business of basket and furniture making. The willows are 

 now ready for cutting and we will supply the company with as 

 many cuttings as we can spare. 



Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve. 



The work of rooting out the Caesalpinia bonduc in Hering 

 Valley constituted the principal work done during the month. In 

 about ten days more we expect to have it entirely eradicated from 

 this valley. In Makiki main valley there are several patches of 

 C. bonduc which we intend rooting out as soon as we can get at it. 



Advice and Assistance. 



At the request of T. A. Clowes, acting principal Lahainaluna 

 School, Lahaina, Maui, for information in regard to planting 

 trees on lands belonging to the school, the writer paid a visit to 

 Lahainaluna on April 8 for that purpose. 



An examination of the land intended to be planted was made 

 and advice given in regard to planting. The algaroba trees sent 

 from this Nursery in February were also examined and were 

 found to be doing very well. Owing to the dry condition of the 

 land no more planting will be attempted until about November or 

 December. We will then have suitable trees ready for planting 

 the tract. 



The following is the number of requests received for advice 

 and assistance from people in and around the city : Calls made, 

 12; advice by telephone, 15; advice to callers at Nursery, 11; 

 total, 38. 



Respectfully submitted, 



David Haughs, 



Forest Nurseryman. 



REPORT FOR MAY. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, June 16, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit the following routine re- 

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



PERMITS TO SQUATTERS. 



In order to legalize the occupancy of certain land in lower 

 Makiki Valley within the Flonolulu Watershed Forest Reserve, 

 in compliance with Clause g. Section 1, of Rule II of the Divi- 

 sion of Forestry, which forbids squatting upon government land 

 in a forest reserve without a permit, I issued on May 10 free 



