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MR. CURRAN'S REPORT. 
Attention is called to the short report on the ^^laui forests by 
Mr. H. M. Curran, that appears in this issue of the Forester. 
Mr. Curran is one of the senior forest officers in the Philippine 
Bureau of Forestry. Through the courtesy of the Director of that 
Bureau, Major George P. Ahern, it was arranged for Mr. Curran 
to stop over in Hawaii for a month on his return to Manila from 
a trip around the world, to consult with the staff of the Division 
of Forestry in regard to certain intricate forest problems on 
Maui. Mr. Curran's findings and recommendations are given in 
the report printed elsewhere. 
SOUTH KONA FOREST RESERVE. 
On another page of this issue of the Forester appears Governor 
Frear's proclamation creating the South Kona Forest Reserve, 
in the districts of South Kona and Kau, Island of Hawaii. The 
total area of this reserve is 36,952 acres, of which 29,260 acres 
belongs to the Territorial Government. 
When the South Kona Reserve was first reported on by the 
Superintendent of Forestry it was recommended that the area to 
be included within the boundaries be 50,612 acres. At the public 
hearing, held on January 28, 1911, some opposition developed to 
the setting apart of a portion of this land, in that it was claimed 
to be adapted for homesteading. Believing these objections to 
be well founded Governor Frear directed that a new description 
be prepared eliminating the lands in question. This having been 
done, he signed the proclamation on May 17, 1911. The report 
of the Superintendent of Forestry giving the reasons for the 
creation of the South Kona Forest Reserve may be found in the 
Forester and Agriculturist for February, 1911, Vol. VIII, No. 2, 
pp. 65-69. 
MARKETING OF PRODUCTS. 
One of several acts of the last Legislature for the promotion of 
diversified agriculture from which much benefit is justly expected 
provides for a market superintendent, who shall arrange for the 
disposal of Hawaiian products in the mainland markets, as well 
as in those supplying home demand besides advising and directing 
producers with regard to the ripening, packing and shipping of 
the commodities. This is the very service which the Forester and 
Agriculturist advocated having attended to, in several articles 
published six or seven years ago. The only difference was that 
this magazine then recommended the growers of marketable 
staples to accomplish the object on their own behalf by coopera- 
tion. No doubt self help to this end would in time have been in- 
voked and with success, but it would appear that circumstances 
