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lying principles of Conservation. Where it was feasible to 
do so the local branches of the Women's National Rivers and 
Harbors Congress furnished speakers, who addressed the 
school children on this subject. 
SPECIAL CONSERVATION MEETING. 
In connection with the annual meeting of the Hawaiian 
vSugar Planters' Association, there was held in Honolulu, on 
November 16, a special meeting to consider the underlying 
principles of Conservation in their applications to local con- 
ditions. The meeting was under the joint auspices of the 
Board of Agriculture and Forestry and of the Hawaiian Sugar 
Planters' Association, and was well attended both by mem- 
bers of that Association — sugar plantation managers and the 
leading men of affairs in the Territory — and by the general 
public. Short addresses were made by Governoir Frear, 
Messrs. Marston Campbell, R. S. Hosmer, Hon. W. O. Smith, 
Alonzo Gartley, Dr. E. V. Wilcox, Dr. W. C. Hobdy, and 
Prof. C. H. Hitchcock. In that there was thus brought home 
to a large body of the most influential men in this Territory 
the salient points of Conservation in its local application, the 
meeting may be regarded as a decided success. The addresses 
are being published, practically in full, in the issue of the 
Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist for January, 1911. 
In this connection I might say that I attended certain of 
the meetings of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association 
and took part in the discussion that followed the reading of 
the report of the Committee on Forestry. 
FOREST RESERVE REPORTS. 
At the end of November three forest reserve reports were 
submitted by me to the Board for final action; one recom- 
mending the creation of a reserve in South Kona, Hawaii ; 
two in connection with the modification and slight enlarge- 
ment of two existing forest reserves — Kau, Flawaii, and West 
Maui, Maui. 
TRIP TO MAUI. 
From November 29 to December 17, I was away from 
Honolulu on an inspection trip to the County of Maui. Going 
first to Wailuku, I spent two days in company with Mr. H. B. 
Penhallow, manager of the Wailuku Sugar Company, going 
carefully with him over the area planted by his company dur- 
ing the past two years. A most creditable showing has been 
made on the bare ridges and hills above Wailuku. The 
Wailuku Plantation is making an investment that cannot fail 
to yield good returns in years to come. 
