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Company to plant on a portion of the land of Kaohe a certain 
number of Eucalyptus trees per acre, as one of the terms of a 
lease of that land for grazing purposes. The idea is to provide 
groves for the protection of stock; the trees to be fenced in until 
large enough to care for themselves; the groves to be maintained' 
to the end of the lease. This would not reforest the land — it is 
not intended to — but it would increase its value to the Govern- 
ment, as well as to the lessee, and would also provide groups of 
trees that, were it later thought desirable to bring the land again 
under forest, would serve as seed plots. From the experience 
with Eucalyptus at Olinda and at Ulupalakua on Maui, there is 
no question but that at the expiration of the proposed lease the 
trees to be planted could be depended on to do their part, [to say 
nothing of the merchantable timber that might be sold by the 
Government at the end of the lease.] With the outlook as it is, 
it seems to me the wise plan to permit these lands to be leased and 
made remunerative under such a plan, rather than to hold them 
unproductive for an indefinite time." 
Additional Information. 
Certain new points were brought out during my visit to 
Hamakua. As a result I recommend that in addition to the sug- 
gestions that have already been made, and accepted, as to the 
stipulations to be embodied in the lease, the following be added : 
(1) That the planting be subject to the approval of the Forest 
Officials of the Territory. 
(2) That so far as climatic conditions render it practicable, 
not less than one-eighth (f/g) of the trees to be planted be set 
out during each of the first eight years of the lease, until the full 
number has been reached. 
(3) That on the land of Manowaialee all the planting be con- 
fined to one block adjoining and extending the area of existing 
forest, which block, with the existing native forest below shall 
be kept fenced off during the term of the lease. A further ex- 
amination of this land, made during my recent visit to Hamakua, 
leads me to believe that except for this suggestion, Manowaia- 
lee should be treated in the same manner as the other lands ; not 
separately as was formerly recommended. 
As I understand it, it is already the intention of the Kukaiau 
Plantation Company to conform to the spirit of these suggestions, 
but it would do no harm to have it specified in the lease. 
I further recommend to owners of private land in Hamakua 
that in view of the diminishing wood supply in the District all 
waste areas should be planted with commercially valuable trees. 
In time the groves so started will prove a valuable asset to their 
owners. 
The suggestion was made by a number of persons that the 
lands should be put up in several small blocks rather than one 
