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KAU FOREST RESERVE. 
Honolulu, Hawaii, November 28, 1910. 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Hono- 
lulu, Oahu. 
Gentlemen : — I have to submit as follows a report recom- 
mending that the boundary line of the Kau Forest Reserve, 
in the District of Kau, Island of Hawaii, be so modified as 
to include a small additional area of land that for the best 
interests of all concerned should be under forest. 
When the Kau Forest Reserve was created by proclama- 
tion of Governor G. R. Carter, on August 2, 1906, this sec- 
tion of the boundary was drawn between fixed points, with 
the understanding that the actual line on the ground should 
follow a flume that roughly paralleled the line of which at 
that time it was not possible to obtain a technical descrip- 
tion. Recently, at the expense of the Hawaiian Agricultural 
Company, a survey of this flume has been made by Mr. A. 
C. Alexander, C. E. The present action is, therefore, in 
effect, to substitute a detailed technical description of the 
line for the one or two simple courses betAveen points. As 
the flume is somewhat makai of the former line, some 216 
acres are added to the reserve. 
The area proposed to be added to the Kau Forest Reserve 
consists of four strips, aggregating altogether 216.2 acres, 
being parts of the following lands : 
Kaalaala-Makakupu Tract: Govt. (Lease No. 637) 82 acres 
Keaiwa: Bishop Estate 23 " 
Kaauhuhuula Tract: Govt. (Unleased) 109 
Palima: Govt. (Lease No. 591) 2.2 " 
216.2 " 
The Government lands are in part now under lease to the 
Hawaiian Agricultural Company, at whose request the pro- 
posed change of boundary is made. One of the leases expires 
in 1911, the other in 1918, but both carry the ''withdrawal-for- 
public purposes" clause, so that the reservation can go into 
full effect at once. 
The object of the Kau Forest Reserve is to protect the 
forest cover on a section from which water is developed for 
use on the agricultural lands below. The addition of the land 
now under consideration will enable the objects of the re- 
serve the better to be accomplished, particularly in making 
a boundary that can more easily be policed. 
