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that up to that time was in doubt. The full results of this investi- 

 gation were published early in 1910. as Bulletin No. 19 of the 

 Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station. 



EXHIBITS AND EDUCATIONAL WORK. 



Following the policy that with a subject of such general in- 

 terest to the people of the Territory as is Forestry, a legitimate 

 amount of publicity is not only permissible but wise, the Division 

 of Forestry prepared exhibits illustrating its work for the annual 

 shows of the Hawaiian Poultry Association in 1909 and 1910, 

 and for the Hawaii Building at the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposi- 

 tion at Seattle, Washington, during the summer of 1909. In Mr. 

 Rock's report will be found a description of this latter exhibit. 

 For it the Board of Agriculture and Forestry was awarded a 

 special diploma and a gold medal. The exhibit, being the prop- 

 erty of the Territory, was returned to Honolulu, where it is now 

 held with other like material until such time as it may again be 

 needed. If there were space for it, this exhibit could well be set 

 up in the Board's office, but the cramped quarters at the Govern- 

 ment Nursery utterly preclude such a possibility. 



Other educational work in forestry and in the closely related 

 but still broader field of Conservation, has been carried on during 

 the past two years by addresses and talks made by the Superin- 

 tendent of Forestry before various assemblies, and by articles 

 dealing with forestry prepared for various local publications. 



In particular two Conservation meetings are to be recalled. 

 The first was a joint session of the Senate and House of Rep- 

 resentatives of the Territory of Hawaii, held in the Throne 

 Room on March 1, 1909. It was called that the members of the 

 Legislature might listen to addresses on the meaning and local 

 necessity for Conservation. A complete report of this meeting 

 was later published in pamphlet form, both in English and in 

 Hawaiian, and generally distributed throughout the Territory. 



The second meeting was somewhat similar in general char- 

 acter, being a public meeting held in the Throne Room on No- 

 vember 16, 1910, under the joint auspices of the Board of Agri- 

 culture and Forestry and the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Associa- 

 tion, to consider the practical application of the principles of 

 Conservation to certain of our local economic problems. As in 

 the case of the former meeting-, addresses were made by a number 

 of the men locally best qualified to present authoritative state- 

 ments in regard to the several phases of the subject. A full 

 report of this latter meeting appears in the Hawaiian Forester 

 and Agriculturist for January, 1911. Because containing state- 

 ments of general interest, not found elsewhere in just this form, 

 the address of the Superintendent of Forestry is reprinted as a 

 part of this report. 



