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seven acres, more or less. The land of Hauola is at present under 
lease to the Hamakua Mill Company. The lease expires May 
18, 1914. 
In view of the fact that experience has demonstrated the advis- 
ability in Hamakua of having a windbreak along the edge of the 
bluff to protect the cane, or indeed any crop that might be grown 
in the lower fields from the salt spray carried by the strong trade 
wind, the Hamakua Mill Company has proposed to the Govern- 
ment that provided this strip is set apart as a forest reserve the 
Company will plant it with a windbreak of Ironwood trees (Casu- 
arina equisetifolia) and care for the same during a period of 
twenty-one years ; the trees to be planted in accordance with the 
directions of the Forestry Department ; the Mill Company to have 
the right to any wood that may r-esult from wood cutting, if in the 
judgment of the proper forest officials of the Territory, it should 
be found advisable to make thinnings or improvement cuttings 
in the planted belt. As a matter of fact provided the plantation 
is maintained as an efficient windbreak only a very small quantity 
of wood could at best be so realized. The Mill Company is ready 
to go ahead at once with the tree planting ; indeed some trees have 
already been set out. 
The land proposed to be reserved is in itself of but small value. 
By being planted with a windbreak it will increase the value of 
the area immediately mauka and this whether the land continues 
to be used for raising sugar cane or is planted with some other 
crop. The Mill Company naturally hopes to re-lease the land of 
Hauola, but in the event of the land being subdivided at the ex- 
piration of the present lease, the Company wishes to insure the 
continuance of the windbreak. If the area is set apart as a forest 
reserve now the planted forest can be efficiently cared for and 
protected. If it is not set apart there is nothing to prevent the 
destruction of the trees were the land later to be subdivided and 
opened up. 
By agreeing to set apart this small tract as a forest reserve the 
Government gains the double advantage of having it planted free 
of cost with desirable trees, and of benefiting the sections lying 
next mauka. It seems to me that this proposition is decidedly one 
that the Government should accept. I therefore recommend that 
the Board approve the creation of this reserve and request the 
Governor to set apart the section described below as the Hauola 
Forest Reserve. 
Following is a description of the area which in the judgment 
of the Government Survey Office is sufficient for the present 
purpose : 
HAUOLA FOREST RESERVE, HAMAKUA, HAWAII. 
All that piece of land lying along the sea bluff on the Govern- 
ment land of Hauola, District of Hamakua, Island of Hawaii, 
