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Division of Forestry 



Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 8, 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 August. 1916: 



Round Top Forest Reserve. 



On August 10, the public hearing was held at the Board offices 

 to consider the setting apart of Round Top, near Honolulu, as 

 a forest reserve. The attendance at this hearing was rather 

 meager and, no objection being raised, the Governor on the 

 same day signed the proclamation setting apart the 115 acres of 

 government land as the Round Top Forest Reserve. 



Proposed A'e'-u' Forest Reserves. 



One day was spent in a combination trip to the western end 

 of the Waianae Mountains with Entomologist D. T. Fullaway. 

 In the morning Mr, Fullaway liberated several tubes of parasites 

 on the melon fly in cucumber and vegetable fields on the low- 

 lands in the region of Mokuleia and Kawaihapai. The rest oi 

 the day was spent on the mauka lands of Kealia in an examina- 

 tion of the western end of the proposed new Mokuleia Forest 

 Reserve to determine upon the proper forest boundaries. 



Three days were spent at Waiahole and Waianu I on Oahu 

 with two government surveyors in making an examination and 

 survey of boundaries of a proposed new forest reserve in this 

 region. On the return trip I acquainted myself with the estab- 

 lished boundaries of the proposed Hauula Forest Reserve. 



These three projects will be submitted to the Board as soon 

 as the final survey descriptions are ready. 



Siirz'ey at N^iiuaiiii Pali. 



A detailed survey of the land at the head of Nuuanu \^alley, 

 Oahu, was made by government surveyors during the month, in 

 order to determine the exact location of the boundary of the 

 Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve at the Pali. This was 

 found necessary in order to determine whether the land de- 

 sired by the Lord- Young Engineering Company for use as a 

 cableway landing was within the reserve. The area was in- 



