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Forest Fire Service, 
On June 12, and again on June 18, forest fires were reported 
from the Koolau District, Kauai, on lands mauka of the Kilauea 
Sugar Plantation Company. These fires were both put out by 
plantation laborers acting under the direction of Mr. J. R. Myers, 
manager of the plantation and district fire warden. Something 
over one hundred acres were burned over. Efforts are being 
made to apprehend the persons supposed to have started the 
fires. 
In order more efficiently to cover the Ewa District, Oahu, ad- 
ditional district fire wardens have been appointed, as follows : 
Mr. H. C. Dolhver, for the section between the land of Manana 
and the Kaukonahua Gulch ; Mr. James Gibb, for the lands from 
Moanalua to Waiawa. For Palolo Valley, Oahu, Mr. Samuel 
R. Stone, and for the Districts of Honuaula and Kahikinui, 
Maui, Mr. Ahka Dowsett. 
Forest Reserves. 
Following a public hearing held on June 28, Governor Frear,* 
on June 29, signed a proclamation setting apart 19,850 acres of 
government land in the District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, as 
the Puna Forest Reserve. This reserve includes the section of 
ohia forest now being logged under a timber license held by the 
Hawaiian Development Company. The land having been set 
apart as a forest reserve, a payment of $2,955.00, due from that 
company for timber already cut, will be paid over to this Board 
to form a special fund expendable for forest purposes. This is 
the first instance where the section of the forest reserve law re- 
lating to revenue from forest reserves has become operative. 
During June an arrangement was consummated between 
the government and Mr. Eben P. Low, lessee of the Island of 
Kahoolawe, whereby in consideration of the remission of unpaid 
rents, Mr. Low agrees to kill off all the goats on the island and 
remove all of his remaining sheep during this calendar year. 
Kahoolawe has been set apart as a forest reserve in order that 
this Board may undertake systematic steps towards its reclama- 
tion. The present action permits this work to be begun a year 
sooner than would otherwise be possible. 
Very respectfully, 
Ralph S. Hosmer, 
Superintendent of Forestry. 
