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A detailed report relative to this work will be submitted in the 

 near future. 



Twenty-two stream measurement stations and 6 rainfall meas- 

 urement stations were visited, and 12 discharge measurements 

 were made. 



Maui. 



R. C. Rice spent 12 days and H. A. R. Austin 15 days on Maui. 

 All stream and rainfall measurement stations were visited and 

 put in good order. Seven float wells were pumped out and all 

 foreign material removed. Twenty discharge measurements 

 were made. 



\^ery respectfully, 



G. K. Larrison, 

 Superintendent of Hydrography. 



BOARD APPOINTMENTS. 



During the calendar year 1916, appointments to the follow- 

 ing positions were made by the Board of Agriculture and For- 

 estry, and commissions issued to the following persons : 



January 6, Dr. H. L. Lyon, Honorary Plant Pathologist. 



May 16, Joseph F. Rock, Special Agent. 



June 21, Marion Cabral, District Fire Warden, Maui. 



June 21, John Fassoth, District Forester and Fire Warden, 

 Maui. 



June 21, A. A. Wilson, District Fire Warden, Oahu. 



Junt 21, Eric A. Knudsen, District Forester and Fire War- 

 den, Kauai. 



June 21, Marston Campbell, Jr., Laboratorv Assistant. 



June 2^1, Dr. A. R. Rowat, Dep. Terr. Vet.^ West Hawaii. 



July 15, Francis B. Dodge, Forest Ranger for Hawaii. 



November 28. F. S. Lvman, Jr., District Fire Warden, Oahu. 



November 28, James Lindsay, Forest Ranger, Maui. 



According to an article in the India Rubber World quoted 

 by the Agricultural News, W. I., there is some prospect that the 

 United States may become a rubber-producing country if an 

 active attempt is made to cultivate on an extensive scale the 

 silver-colored Guayule shrub, Parthcnutm argciitaturn, a member 

 of the aster family which grows wild in many sections of the 

 American south-west, as it does over the central plateau of 

 Mexico. On the basis that the plant yields 8 per cent of its dry 

 weight in rubber, which is a conservative estimate, an acre would 

 yield 4000 lb. worth $1520, according to the present low market 

 price of 38c. per lb. There is no doubt that, if the project is 

 practicable, the United States would greatly strengthen its 

 economic position if it could establish rubber within its own 

 territory. ^ 



