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The Robinson ideals should not have been so early forgotten as 
would appear to be the case. They included the parking of 
streets. When local enthusiasm stirs again on the subject, we 
shall see not only new sections possessing themselves of bour- 
geoned and blossomed avenues, but the older sections of the city 
will be reforming their ways to the same beautiful purpose. • 
PUBLIC LANDS. 
In a regular department readers may look for the transactions 
of the Public Lands Office month by month. It happens that last 
month there was almost no completed transactions to report. A 
certificate of occupation was granted to Mrs. Annie Solomon for 
a homestead of 2.32 acres at Wailuanui, Koolau, Maui. The tim- 
ber license issued January 5 to Hawaiian Development Company, 
Ltd., for lands at Kaohe, Puna, Hawaii, for ten years at $5.00 an 
acre, was fully described in the last number of this magazine. 
Besides its prime functions of developing forest wealth and con- 
serving the water that is the life of the land, the Division of For- 
estry stands always ready to serve tlie general public in minoi' 
ways. It will do what it can to transform highways into avenues 
of beauty, park the towns and — in its Arbor Day service — train 
the children for tree-lovers and surround the schools with delight- 
ful groves. 
With soldiers and sailors and tourists swarming in Honolulu, 
it will be wise thrift for the owner of a home plot to produce a lit- 
tle for the pot. And he need not feel afraid of spoiling the market 
for the fellow who makes his living that way. There will not be 
any danger of prices tumbling until the import figures in the trade 
returns dwindle some hundred thousands. 
Public opinion has worked a change for the better in the hand- 
ling of animals in transportation, according to the Executive 
Officer of the Board, yet scientifically suggested self-interest 
should be as potent as sentiment in causing stock-raisers to insist 
upon the most gentle treatment possible of animals bound for 
market. 
Don’t omit consulting the list of publications for distribution 
on the third cover page. It may contain just what you want to 
solve some worrying difficulty. 
