PRESS BU LLETi N NO. 12. O I V I S I O IM OR RORELSTRY 



Boinl of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry 



TERRITORY OF HAWAII 

 DIVISION OF FORESTRY 



RALPH S. HOSMER 



SUPERINTENDENT 



Suggestions in Regard to the Arbor Day Tree Planting 



Contest. 



[Prepared under the direction of the Superintendent of Forestry.] 



To fittingly inaugurate the first Arbor Day to be officially ob- 

 served in Hawaii there has been raised, through the generosity and 

 public spirit of Governor G. R. Carter and a number of firms and 

 individuals in Honolulu, an Arbor Day Tree Planting Prize Fund. 

 From this fund a prize to the value of five dollars is offered in each 

 of the public schools in the Territory according to terms set forth 

 in the report of a Special Arbor Day Committee. 



The committee's report is as follows : 



Honolulu, Oct. "24, 1905. 

 Honorable A. L. C. Atkinson, 



Secretary of Hawaii, Honolulu. 



Sir: We, the undersigned, appointed by you as a committee to arrange the 

 details of the Arbor Day tree planting contest, beg leave to report as follows: 



We are heartily in favor of the proposed contest, because we believe it is 

 based on the true spirit of Arbor Day, which is to awaken and maintain a con- 

 tinued interest in the planting and care of trees on school grounds and else- 

 where. 



To carry out the plan in a successful way, and to arouse the lasting interest 

 of both teachers and children, we recommend: 



First, that to every school making application to tin* Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, a prize of not less than five dollars in value, consisiing of 



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