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the Heeia Agricultural Co. in the Heeia and Kaneohe valleys will 

 be checked by measurements. Additional measurements and in- 

 vestigations will be made relative to the Punaluu water utilization 

 project. Further information and data will be gathered in rela- 

 tion to Honolulu's future water supply. 



MAUI. 



Seepage losses from the ditches of the Alatii Agricultural Co., 

 the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. and the Pioneer AliJ! Co. 

 will be investigated. 



Very respectfully, 



L. K. Larrison, 

 Superintendent of Hydrography. 



LIST OF GAGING STATIONS MAINTAINED BY THE DIVISION OF 

 HYDROGRAPHY ON FEBRUARY 28, 1915. 



^Maintain- Discon- Establish- Maint. Measurements. 



Island. cd on tinned in ed in on Regu- Miscel- 



Jan. 31. February. February. Feb. 28. lar. laneous. 



Kauai 33 a* a* 33a''' 3 



Oahu 46 1 47 5 8 



Maui 42 42 6 1 



Total.... 121 1 122 14 9 



Note. — In addition to above, !Mr. Kimble made about 10 seep- 

 age measurements during the month, 

 a* — Kauai report not yet in to date. 



WAR, WHEAT. AX I) TROPICAL FOODSTin-FS. 



Referring t<j our leader last August (M1 the above subject, 

 wherein we discuss how the tropics can supply us with foodstuffs 

 to replace wheat and cereals to some degree, and relate how one 

 wheat-consuming center which liad increased its demands by 22 

 per cent during the same j^eriod that its supplies have increased 

 only 4j/2 per cent, since that article was written we have noted, 

 esjjecially of late, repeated references in the international press. 

 and csj)ecially the l^nglish ])a])ers, to the tendency of the ])rice <^f 

 wheat, and therefore of bread, to further advance, a fact that is 

 not failing to strike home to all thinking men and women. Among 

 the journals whose notes strike us as being' particularly useful 

 just now is the Colonial Journal for January. I'irstly. in the 

 way it has reviewed the government's arrangements to keep our 

 tro])ieal cnl(»nies and dependencies going, and especialh- where 



