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Proposed Planting at Honokaa. 
Just prior to returning to Honolulu I visited the Honokaa 
plantation and arranged with the manager, Mr. A. Morrison, to 
supply him with seedlings for extensive shelter-belt planting along 
the sea bluff makai of the cane fields. Thirty thousand seedlings 
will be set out during the next few months. 
During the remainder of the month I was in my office in 
Honolulu. 
Tree Distribution. 
The furnishing of trees from the Government Nursery and the 
substations at Hilo and at Homestead, Kauai, goes on steadily. 
1 submit herewith Mr. Haughs' report for August, which gives 
the details of this work at Honolulu. Brother Matthias Newell 
reports from Hilo that the total distribution from January to 
June, 1911, inclusive, amounted to 3235 trees. 
Botanical Survey. 
During a good part of July, Mr. Rock was in the field on Ha- 
waii, collecting in the proposed National Park near the Volcano. 
He returned to Honolulu early in August, and was at work in 
the herbarium the greater part of that month. 
Owing to limited amounts available for carrying on the work 
of the Board, it has been considered advisable to transfer the 
botanical investigations, that for the past three years have formed 
a part of the activities of the Board, to the College of Hawaii. 
On September 1, Mr. Rock becomes a member of the college 
staff, while the herbarium is loaned to the college for an indefi- 
nite period. Until the new home of the college is ready, Mr. 
Rock will continue to occupy his present quarters at the Govern- 
ment Nursery. 
Forest Fire Notes. 
I am informed by the district fire warden at Wahiawa that the 
Korean arrested for setting a grass fire near the Wahiawa dam 
on August 2, 1911, pleaded guilty when arraigned before the 
district magistrate at Waialua, receiving a suspended sentence 
for thirteen months. ''This," says the district fire warden, 'T 
regard as a victory for the law, that will meet the requirements 
quite as well as the imposition of a fine, which the man could 
probably not afford to pay." 
In this connection I would report that while I was at Kukui- 
haele a Japanese laborer employed on the plantation shot three 
Hawaiian geese, nene, on which by Act 68 of the Session Laws 
of 1909, there is a four-year tabu. I made complaint to the 
