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nuts from the lower government lands in the forest reserve in 

 Palolo Valley. If he can secure permission to take kukui nuts 

 from other lands in Palolo as well as from the forest reserve, 

 Mr. Rice plans to establish an oil extraction outfit with the idea 

 of putting- kukui nut oil on the market. He believes that he can 

 sell the oil for about the same price as linseed oil — 75 cents per 

 gallon. Since I can see no way in which the forest would be 

 injured by the gathering of the fallen nuts and I believe that an 

 industry of this nature should be encouraged, it is my plan to 

 issue, with your approval, a preliminary permit to Mr. Rice for 

 this purpose, making a nominal charge for the nuts of say 5 cents 

 per hundred pounds, this price to be readjusted after experiments 

 have determined how much oil can be extracted from 100 pounds 

 of nuts. 



Kahoolazi'c. During the month two applications were received 

 for privileges on the Kahoolawe forest reserve ; one from Ed. K 

 Duvauchelle of Pukoo, Molokai, to shoot goats on the island, the 

 other from W. J. Coelho of Honolulu who desires the sole privi- 

 lege of occupying the island for 20 years free of rent in order to 

 establish a fishing station, and stock the island with game birds 

 and poultry. In return he would kill off the goats and plant 

 trees on the island. In view of the fact that the former tenant 

 of the island has not yet removed all of his sheep and may claim 

 that he still has rights there, it would seem that these two new 

 applications should not be considered until there is some definite 

 understanding as to future plans concerning the island. With 

 this in view I intend soon to take up the whole question with 

 you in the form of a special report. 



FOREST FIRFS. 



A report of forest fires in the woods back of Olaa, Hawaii, 

 during March led me to inquire from District Fire Warden C. 

 F. Eckart of the Puna district as to their extent and he has in- 

 fomed me that there had been four fires in the mauka lands to 

 the southeast of the Olaa section, but that at the end of the 

 month showers had extinguished them. A later report from Mr. 

 Eckart showed that after a personal examination no evidence of 

 fire was found in the forests on government lands or in any 

 other heavily wooded land in that section. The fires had aH 

 been on pasture lands controlled by the Shipman interests. 



HILO FOREST RESERVE. 



Concerning the question, referred to the President by the Gov- 

 ernor, of a possible elimination for homesteading of land at the 

 northwest corner of the Hilo forest reserve, Hawaii, on the land 

 of Humuula, I found that the matter had been before the Board 



