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APPROPRIATIONS. 



For the past two years the expenses of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture and Forestry have been met from the Conservation Fund. 

 Of this the expenditures of the Division of Forestry were as fol- 

 lows: 



Salaries and 

 Year. Pay Rolls. Current Expenses. Total. 



1911 $9,765.05 $ 807.63 $10,572.68 



1912 8,813.43 1,246.97 10,060.40 



From special allotments there was also expended during these 

 years for forest work: 



Forest Planting, Pupukea, Oahu $ 831.30 



Kohala Mountain, Hawaii.. 3,421.60 



$4,252.90 



From the sale of Ohia timber, under a territorial license, in the 

 Puna Forest Reserve, Hawaii, the sum of $2,955 was realized in 

 June, 1911. This amount was set apart, under the law, as a spe- 

 cial fund for forest work. In 1912 this money was transferred 

 to the account of forest planting on Kohala Mountain- 



At the close of 1912 there still remains available $4,402.25 for 

 additional planting in this account. 



As general realizations from the sale of seeds, plants, etc., 

 and of dead wood from the Tantalus forest, there have been 

 turned into the Territorial Treasury by the Division of Forestry 

 the following amounts : 



For the year 1911 $612.75 



1912 295.40 



FOREST RESERVES. 



To those who have followed the earlier reports of this office, 

 the reasons underlying the creation of forest reserves in Hawaii 

 are an old story. But the need for forest protection and forest 

 work remains and will always continue in Hawai to be a vital 

 one. 



Many of the great functions of the Government now go on so 

 smoothly that we have ceased to think much about them, but 

 nevertheless it is well for us that our fundamental rights are 

 safeguarded. 



In a somewhat similar way it must not be forgotten that agri- 

 culture cannot exist in these islands in a large way, without irri- 



