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Valley on the right hand side of the road as one goes toward 

 the Pali just mauka of where the new road turns off from the old. 

 Another was placed on the boundary line in the bottom of Pauoa 

 Valley. In locating the latter it was found that a Japanese, one 

 Sora Sakido, had about a year ago moved his house from low 

 land on the Booth Estate, a parcel of which he rents for the pur- 

 pose of raising violets, to higher land and, not knowing the 

 boundaries, had inadvertently built a part of it on a few square 

 feet of government land at the very corner of the reserve. The 

 Japanese, who makes a scanty living from his violets, gets no 

 return from the use of these few square feet of government land 

 but, in order to legitimize his occupancy, I propose to issue him 

 a temporary permit for the use of this land, to be renewed 

 quarterly subject to his compliance with our rules, and require him 

 to pay rental at the rate of $3.00 per year. 



Protection of Nunanu Reservoir Region. 



During the month I have studied the subject of how better 

 protection could be afforded to the land draining into the three 

 upper reservoirs in Nuuanu Valley,, which are within the Hono- 

 lulu Watershed Forest Reserve, and more particularly with re- 

 spect to how trespassers may be kept out. This is an essential 

 step concomitant with the desirability of the establishing of a 

 filtration plant and preventing road seepage from draining into 

 the reservoirs. Visits were made to the land with representatives 

 of the Board of Health and of the Survey Office and I have pre- 

 pared and am submitting to you, with a special report, for 

 approval, a new rule creating a tabu on a part of this Forest 

 Reserve. 



Inspection of Planting. 



On February 16, the Forest Nurseryman and I inspected the 

 experimental planting of 500 Ironwood trees done for this Divi- 

 sion by Mr. Mark Robinson on one of the water reserves in the 

 Pupukea Forest Reserve, Oahu, and found the trees to be grow- 

 ing in a satisfactory manner. On our way back, an inspection 

 of the lemon gum and swamp mahogany trees planted by Manager 

 A. A. Wilson around the Wahiawa reservoir disclosed the suc- 

 cess which he has obtained from his initial plantings. 



In this connection you may be interested to know that the re- 

 turns of trees planted during the calendar year 1915 are now in 

 and show a total of 862,364. Of this number 83 per cent were 

 planted by sugar plantation companies. 



