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GRASS CUTTING ON NUUANU WATERSHED. 



Oil January 26, an application was received to cut grass on the 

 Honolulu Watershed forest reserve in Xnuanu X'alley in the re- 

 gion of Luakaha. In view of Forestry Rule 1 which was passed 

 by the board and approved by the Governor on August 22, 1914, 

 and which prohibits such cutting without permit, the application 

 was denied, at least pending further investigation. At the same 

 time it was called to my attention that certain grass cutting was 

 going on in the reserve, especially near the Nuuanu reservoir. 

 1 have made a preliminary investigation of the matter, the solution 

 of which will doubtless involve, in part, cooperation with the 

 County and possibly also with the Board of Health, and as soon 

 as my investigation is completed I am sure that the matter will 

 be adjusted in a manner which will be satisfactory and which will 

 safeguard the purity of Honolulu's water. 



PERMIT TO REMONE STONES. 



During the month an application was received for permission 

 to remove ten (10) cubic yards of stone from the Honolulu 

 Watershed forest reserve in Makiki. After a personal investiga- 

 tion with the applicant on the ground, and consultation with the 

 president, I issued, on January 17 , a permit for the removal of 

 the material, within six (6) months, from a designated spot in 

 the valley bottom near the lower boundary of the reserve, where 

 the removal of stone will be a benefit rather than a detriment to 

 the land. 



FOLIC V. 



At the ince])tion of my work as Superintendent of T'orestry I 

 wish to take this opportunity to express my strong belief in the 

 established policy of the board of rigid protection of the indigen- 

 ous Hawaiian forests for the purpose of water conservation and 

 to assert that it will give me great pleasure, with the means at my 

 disposal, to u])hold and carry out this jKilicy. The work of great- 

 est importance at present appears to be the securing of this pro- 

 tection to the forests by means of fence construction on the boun- 

 daries of the forest reserves where it is needed and this will 

 receive my early and diligent attention. 



STrDN' oi- Hawaii's woud Ki:(jiiKi:.Mi-:Nfs. 



The ])arani(nir,t value of the fiire>t I'eserves of native Hawaiian 

 forests lies in their function of conserving the sources of water 

 supply and ef|uali/.ing the run off and it is of the greatest import- 

 ance tint this function shouhl W c<mtinue(l and devel()])ed through 



