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BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF AGRICULTURE 
AND FORESTRY. 
DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 
ROUTINE REPORTS. 
Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 12, 1908. 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu, Hawaii. 
Gentlemen : I have the honor to submit the following report 
of the Division of Forestry for the period from January 8th 
to date. 
During the second and third, weeks of January I was busy 
in Honolulu with the preparation of reports having to do with 
forest matters in the District of Kona on Hawaii and proposed 
Forest Reserves on the islands of Maui and Hawaii. 
On January 24th, pursuant to a resolution passed by the Board 
at the meeting held on January 15, I made a ten days' trip to 
the District of Hamakua on the Island of Hawaii, to further 
investigate the forest situation there and to obtain further in- 
formation on certain problems. A full report containing my 
findings will be submitted to the Board later. I was accom- 
panied on this trip by Mr. F. D. Creedon, late private secre- 
tary to Hon. G. R. Carter, who acted as official stenographer 
and took down the statements of the persons interviewed 
along the way. I returned to Honolulu on February 6, since 
which date I have been busy with the preparation of my re- 
port on the trip. 
ADVICE AXD ASSISTANCE. 
At the request of the Kohala Sugar Company, Mr. Haughs 
left on February 11 for a four days' trip to the District of 
Kohala on the Island of Hawaii to prepare a planting plan for 
certain lots in the Awini Homestead tract, now owned by the 
Kohala Sugar Company, on which they desire to plant trees. 
ROUTINE MATTERS. 
On February 5 there was received from the Honorable J. K. 
Kalanianaole, Delegate to Congress, a collection of vegetable 
and flower seeds, being a portion of his quota of the free 
Congressional seed. Arrangements have been made with the 
Department of Public Instruction whereby the greater part 
