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Forest Keserve eleven head of cattle, which had broken through flimsy 
homestead fences and which belonged to the following owners: 
Naomi Mahi, one cow found near Lot 23. 
M. P. Silva, two cows found next to land in Lease No. 926. 
John Kia, eight head of cattle found near Lot 23. 
Under 9A of Sec. 2, Act 222, S. L. 1921, the owners were fined $5.00 
per head. The total amount of $55.00 was thus paid in to the special 
forestry fund and it is planned to expend this sum in the hire of labor 
for planting trees on the same area where these cattle damaged the 
forest. Arrangements have also been made with the owners to con- 
struct stockproof fences on the boundary of the reserve in this region. 
Under 9B of Sec. 2 of this same Act, notice was on September 4, 
served on Manuel and Joseph Silva to remove within ten days cattle 
belonging to them M^hicli had been seen in trespass on the Waianae-kai 
Forest Eeserve, Oahu, having gained access through a gap in the stone- 
wall. It was reported that all but two or three head of these cattle were 
removed within the time limit, after which the stonewall was repaired 
and made stockproof. A personal visit to the area revealed old cattle 
tracks and if these few cattle are still in the dense jungle of klu and 
cactus in the reserve they must be up toward Kumaipo where there is 
running water and where an attempt will be made to capture or shoot 
them. 
FOEEST FIEE. 
September 1, 1922. Kilauea, Kauai. A fire was reported by Fire 
Warden L. D. Larsen to have started on this date through the care- 
lessness of cowboys who had been burning pasture farther makai and 
had apparently not completely extinguished the burnings. About 20 
acres of private lands covered with staghorn fern and a light stand of 
timber were burned over before the fire was extinguished the same day. 
GEASS CUTTEES AEEESTED. 
Through the inefficiency of a local ranger, grass cutting operations on 
Tantalus and Eound Top became so frequent that a strenuous campaign 
was undertaken to put a stop to this trespass. After first giving fre- 
quent warnings, on September 13, my assistant arrested eight trespassers 
and had them booked at the police station. On the following day all 
of them, with the exception of one whose case was continued, plead 
guilty and were given suspended sentences. On the occasion of these 
arrests, the aforementioned ranger was found condoning the trespass 
rather than preventing it and this led me to suspend him at the end 
of the month, which action has subsequently been made permanent 
by you. 
On September 26, my ranger-at-large arrested two more grass cutters 
on Tantalus and booked them for violation of Eule 11. These plead 
guilty the following day in the police court and were given suspended 
sentences of 13 months. Since then, we have had very little trouble from 
trespassing grass cutters in this region. 
ADDITIONS TO FOEEST EEBEEVES. 
In connection with the proposed enlargement of the Koolau Eeserve 
on Maui by adding to the present reserve the land between the Hama- 
kua and Lowrie ditches, a map showing details of land ownership was 
secured and passed over to the surveyor to assist him in the descrip- 
tion of survey of this addition. 
Two days were spent in running and marking a new boundary for 
the Honolulu Watershed Forest Eeserve across the ridge between Nuu- 
anu and Kalihi Valleys and across the latter valley. The new line, 
