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JULY PLANS. 



Kauai. — Most of the month will be spent in collecting and pre- 

 paring Kauai stream and ditch discharge and rainfall data for 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915. 



Three Gurley water stage registers have been ordered for in- 

 stallation, probably in August and September, on the three main 

 branches of the Waimea river. The registers, when established, 

 will furnish records of the entire flow of the upper Waimea 

 drainage at points above all ditch intakes. A ditch measure- 

 ment station will be re-established on the Kekaha ditch during 

 the month of July. 



Oahu. — Only routine field and maintenance work will be done, 

 as the entire force on the island wall be occupied in preparing 

 data for the report of the past fiscal year.. A field trip to all 

 windward Oahu stations will be made, and such low water meas- 

 urements will be made as are needed to bring rating curves up to 

 date. 



Maui. — Only routine work will be done. All private ditch 

 discharge and rainfall records for the past year which are avail- 

 able will be collected. 



Hazvaii. — No operations on this island are planned. 



Very respectfully, 



G. K. Larrison, 

 Superintendent of Hydrography. 



FOREST EXHIBIT FOR CALIFORNIA. 



Part of the government's exhibit for the Panama-California 

 Exposition at San Diego left Washington recently. This portion 

 has to do with the national forests of New Mexico, and will be 

 shown in the New Mexico building, the exhibit having been pre- 

 pared in cooperation with the state board of exposition commis- 

 sioners of that state. The material also shows specimens of the 

 principal timber trees of New Mexico and their uses. 



Other exposition material was to leave soon for San Fran- 

 cisco, where it will form a part of the Panama-Pacific Exposi- 

 tion. Part of this is being prepared through cooperation between 

 the forest service and the United States civil service commission. 

 The commission passes on the qualifications of all candidates for 

 positions in the forest service, testing the fitness of those who 

 wish to become forest officers through outdoor examinations in 

 riding, surveying, timber estimating, and similar matters, as well 

 as by more conventional methods. Its exhibit will illustrate the 

 duties of these officers. 



Cooperation also exists, in the preparation of exhibit material, 

 between the forest service and the bureau of education. This 

 shows how forest subjects are used in the public schools, in con- 



