WOEK ON HAWAII 
The whole of the month was spent on the island of Hawaii, where I 
made headquarters at the Kilauea Kanger Station and devoted almost 
the entire time to the various fencing projects on the boundaries .of the 
Hilo and Olaa Forest Reserves. With my assistant I checked the de- 
scriptions of survey and maps of the pending revision of the Hilo Forest 
Reserve and of the new Waiakea Forest Reserve and the addition to the 
Upper Olaa Forest Reserve, which had been received from the Survey 
Office only a few weeks previous to my departure for Hawaii. Many 
(Errors, due to carelessness in office compilation and draughting, were de- 
tected and additions and changes made possible from our intimate knowl- 
edge of field conditions were- lioted and sent back to the Surveyor so 
that the maps and descriptions could be perfected before being sub- 
mitted to you for acceptance. 
WAIAKEA RESERVE 
Field work was done on a portion of the northern boundary of the 
new Waiakea Forest Reserve and consisted of moving several corners of 
the boundary, which had been placed out in open land, back to the 
heavily forested edge of the a-a lava flow which here is the natural and 
logical boundary. This change will throw a greater acreage into the 
Waiakea pasture land which i" about to be leased for grazing and agri- 
cultural purposes. 
A suggestion was also made to the Land Commissioner, after a con- 
ference in Hilo with Sugar Expert Horner, that proper provisions be 
made in the new lease of the remnant of government land between the 
Waiakea Homesteads and the land of Kukuau 1, so that the government 
would receive the full stumpage value of timber cut on the land and so 
that such timber would be cut only on land which could and would im- 
mediately thereafter be cultivated in cane. 
HILO FOREST RESERVE 
Inspection of fences and checking the boundary line of this reserve 
for proper location were made during the month from Punahoa 2 to 
Huniuula in the following places along the 35 miles of the makai bound- 
ary: Punahoa 2, Piihonua, Puueo, Makahanaloa, Kaupakuea, Honomu, 
Kaiwiki, Waikaumalo and Mauluanui. Fences, where necessary, have 
been or are being constructed on the reserve boundary crossing these 
lands. 
On the privately ow^ned land of Punahoa 2, where the boundary of 
the Hilo Forest Reserve forms a corner to embrace 403 acres of forest 
land upon which both the Olaa and the Hilo Sugar Company flumes have 
their intakes, there formerly existed a very unsatisfactory situation 
from the viewpoint of forest protection to which the owners of the 
land seemed rather indifferent. Cattle belonging to Portuguese dairy- 
men had been wandering at will through the woods back of the intakes 
as far as, and beyond the Wailuku River because of the total lack of 
fences. When the situation was clearly presented to the three owners 
they at once accepted our advice and agreed to building 2.80 miles of 
fence to protect the forest on this valuable w^ater producing area. On a 
part of this boundary a tenant was required by his lease to build .98 
mile of fence on the Piihonua boundary. The Division cooperated on 
this stretch to the extent of furnishing the wire, was instrumental in 
getting the project started, and the fence was completed in July. The 
same tenant has completed .24 mile on the rest of his boundary and on 
the remainder, a reliable plantation fence gang is rapidly progressing 
and has cut 300 posts and cleared 2800 feet of line. On a part of the 
