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service  you  could  secure  a review  of  plans  by  the  Consulting 
Boards  of  the  Federal  Service,  just  as  Porto  Rico  and  each  project 
on  the  mainland  now  secure  such  reviews,  namely,  by  paying  the 
cost. 
In  any  event,  whether  your  Reclamation  be  Territorial  or  Na- 
tional, you  will  not  be  ready  to  commence  construction  for  four  or 
five  years  at  least.  Water  supplies  must  be  thoroughly  studied, 
storage  possibilities  investigated,  and  the  general  topographic  sur- 
veys, that  should  precede  detailed  Reclamation  surveys,  must  be 
made.  This  work  you  are  now  beginning  as  a result  of  the  fore- 
sight of  your  territorial  officers,  but  it  will  take  time  to  secure 
results.  These  results,  however,  must  be  secured  no  matter  what 
plan  of  Reclamation  is  finally  adopted.  No  time  therefore  is  being 
lost. 
Meanwhile  there  is  time  in  which  to  formulate  a policy  for  the 
future.  The  possibility  and  the  desirability  of  securing  necessary 
Congressional  action  can  probably  be  pretty  well  determined  in 
four  or  five  years,  and  if  it  should  prove  impracticable,  or  if  you 
should  decide  that  it  will  prove  unwise,  a carefully  drawn  Terri- 
torial Reclamation  Act  can  be  recommended  to  your  own  Legisla- 
ture, and  if  one  may  judge  by  your  success  in  securing  wise  legis- 
lation in  the  past,  there  should  be  little  doubt  about  its  enactment 
into  law. 
BY  AUTHORITY. 
PROCLAMATION. 
ARBOR  AND  CONSERVATION  DAY. 
The  practice  of  setting  aside  one  day  each  year  as  Arbor  Day  began 
in  Hawaii  in  1905.  Since  then,  on  the  mainland,  and  especially  during 
the  last  year  in  Hawaii,  the  larger  movement  for  the  conservation  and 
development  of  all  natural  resources,  of  which  Arbor  Day  represents  only 
one  phase,  has  received  tremendous  impetus.  Not  only  has  the  public 
conscience  and  interest  been  quickened  on  this  subject,  but  it  has  taken 
practical  form  in  the  inauguration  and  extension  of  actual  work  in  many 
directions  in  this  Territory,  rendered  possible  by  the  broad  and  far- 
sighted  action  of  the  last  Legislature. 
It  is,  therefore,  fitting  that  this  year  the  scope  of  the  day  be  enlarged, 
and,  accordingly,  I hereby  designate  Friday,  the  12th  day  of  November, 
1909,  as  ARBOR  AND  CONSERVATION  DAY  for  the  Territory  of  Ha- 
waii, and  recommend  that  on  that  day  appropriate  exercises  be  held  in 
all  the  schools  of  the  Territory  and  that  a part  of  the  day  be  devoted  to 
the  planting  of  trees  and  shrubs. 
Given  under  my  hand  and  the  Great  Seal  of  the  Territory 
[SEAL]  of  Hawaii  at  the  Capitol  in  Honolulu  this  14th  day  of  October, 
A.  D.  1909. 
W.  F.  FREAR. 
Governor  of  Hawaii. 
