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 DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



Honolulu, July 13, 1915. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit tbe following routine re- 

 port for the Division of Forestry for the month of June, 1915 : 



MOLOKAI TRIP. 



During the first week of June I was on Molokai finishing up 

 the work of which I wrote in my May routine report. 



FENCE WIRE. 



On June 7, bids for furnishing 520 coils of No. 6 gauge Ameri- 

 can Special extra heavy coated galvanized fence wire were open- 

 ed, and were as follows : 



Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd $3.52 per coil. 



Fred L. Waldron, Ltd 3.74 



Inter-Island Steam Nav. Co., Ltd 3.75 



The lowest bid was accepted and contract and bond calHng for 

 delivery of 150 coils by June 24 and the balance by August 10. 

 1915. and involving a total payment of $1830.40. to come out of 

 the appropriation for the period ending June 30, 1915, were ex- 

 ecuted and approved. 



GRASS CUTTING. 



An application to cut grass in the reserve on Tantalus was 

 refused on the same grounds thai similar requests in the past were 

 not granted — the objection of residents of Tantalus to the dam- 

 age done to the roads by the grass wagons and the need of the 

 grass for fire protection. 



USE OF LAND. 



An application was received for the use of about 40 acres of 

 land in a kipuka within the South Kona reserve, Hawaii. In a 

 special report on this application I have recommended that it be 

 not granted on the grounds that it would be inconsistent with our 

 forest reserve policy. 



MANUSCRIPT FOR BULLETIN. 



^^onsultinjET Botanist Joseph F. Rock has revised and submitted 

 his manuscript on "The Forests of the Hawaiian Islands," bein? 

 a description of the forest covering of each of the eight principal 



