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mately .8 mile north to connect up with the fence across the maka.i 

 boundary of the Moloaa Reserve, recently completed by Mr. C. 

 A. Rice. By building this 3.5 miles of fence the forest reserve 

 in this region will be completely protected from cattle which now 

 wander into it. I plan to use the services of our newly appointed 

 Forest Ranger, INIr. Kaina D. Lovell, in constructing this fence. 

 A brief visit around Lihue, Kauai, showed the continued inter- 

 est that is being shown in forest tree planting on an extensive 

 scale by people who are now beginning to reap the harvest of 

 earlier plantings and are selling the wood for local use. 



FENCE WIRE. 



Four bids were received on April 30 in response to the call for 

 tenders for furnishing No. 8 galvanized fence wire, but those 

 necessarily were all rejected on account of the desire, expressed 

 at the Board meeting of April 28, that a better quality of wire 

 with more lasting properties be used in our forest reserve fenc- 

 ing. In accordance with the directions of the Board I have in- 

 quired concerning the best quality of wire available and find that 

 it would be useless to attempt now to secure English wire on 

 account of the great uncertainty of delivery and very high price 

 due to the war. I find that an American Special No. 6 extra 

 heavy-coated galvanized fence wire manufactured by the Ameri- 

 can Steel & Wire Co. has been used with equal satisfaction as the 

 English wire on Hawaii, and I propose soon to call for bids on 

 a sufficient amount of this wire to fence twenty miles of forest 

 reserve boundary. 



GRASS CUTTING ON TANTALUS. 



A complaint was received concerning grass cutting on Tantalus 

 and was at once investigated. No permits have been issued since 

 last summer for this purpose, but it seems evident that some 

 loads of grass or honohono have been cut from time to time from 

 the government forest reserve in this region. Ranger Kapihi 

 was several times instructed to keep closer watch to prevent this 

 trespass and he has been required to move up to his mauka house 

 where he is now on hand to warn grass cutters to keep off the 

 reserve. 



APPOINTMENTS. 



To fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Wilbur 

 A. Anderson, Mr. John S. Goodell of Nahiku, Maui, was on 

 April 28 appointed District Fire Warden for that portion of 

 Koolau, ]\Iaui, lying to the east of Makapipi Gulch. 



On May 1, Mr. Kaina D. Lovell of Anahola, Kauai, was ap- 



