THE HAWAIIAN 
FORESTER I AGRICULTURIST 
Vol. V AUGUST, 1908 No. 8 
A direct and very tangible outcome of the Conference of the 
Governors in May, was the appointment by the President on June 
8, of the National Conservation Commission. This consists of 
sections having to do with waters, forests, land and minerals, 
the members charged with the investigation of waters being those 
who had previously served on the Inland Waterways Commission. 
Each section has a chairman and a secretary, who together con- 
stitute the Executive Committee, with a chairman who is also 
chairman of the entire Commission. This important position is 
held by Mr. GifTord Pinchot. 
In accordance with the recommendation of the President, that 
the several States cooperate with the National Commission in the 
conservation of natural resources, Governor Frear, on July 22, 
appointed The Territorial Conservation Commission of Hawaii, 
a non-salaried board of five members. The personnel of the Com- 
mission is as follows: Ralph S. Hosmer, Territorial Superintend- 
ent of Forestry, chairman ; Hon. W. O. Smith, secretary of the 
Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association ; Mr. Alonso Gartley, 
manager of the Hawaiian Electric Company ; Air. Walter F. Dil- 
lingham, treasurer of the Oahu Railway & Land Company, and 
Air. Jared G. Smith, late director of the Hawaii Agricultural 
Experiment Station and now manager of the Kona Tobacco 
Company. 
It will be remembered that Messrs. Hosmer, Smith and Gart- 
ley accompanied the Governor to the Conference in Washington as 
delegates from Hawaii. In view of the wide spread public senti- 
ment in favor of forest work and stream conservation in the is- 
lands, the work of the Territorial Conservation Commission 
should prove of lasting importance and productive of tangible 
results. 
For the incorporation in the annual report of the Governor 
of the Territory for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, there 
were prepared a number of articles on subjects more or less 
closely related to agriculture. Owing to a new ruling of the 
Secretary of the Interior, it became necessary to cut down 
the size of the report and to omit a number of these contribu- 
