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BY A UTHORITY. 
ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION. 
In accordance with custom, I hereby designate Friday, the 13th day 
of November, 1908, as ARBOR DAY for the Territory of Hawaii, and 
recommend that on that day appropriate exercises be held in all schools 
of the Territory and that part of the day be devoted to the planting 
of trees and shrubs. 
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the Territory of Hawaii 
at the Capitol in Honolulu this 3rd day of November, A. D. 1908. 
W. F. FREAR, 
Governor of Hawaii. 
By the Governor: 
E. A. MOTT-SMITPI, 
Secretary of Hawaii. 
FIRES TO CLEAR LAND -MOLOKAI. 
Notice is hereby given that in accordance with Section 6 of Act 71 
of the Session Laws of 1905, it is forbidden to start fires for the burning 
of brush, dry grass, etc., for a period of three (3) months from Novem- 
ber 3rd, 1908, unless the written permission of the District Fire Warden 
has been first obtained, on that portion of the east end of the Island 
of Molokai, between the lands of Pukoo and Halawa, inclusive. 
The law reads: ' ' such fires shall not be started during a heavy wind 
or without sufficient help present to control the same, and the fire shall 
be watched by the person setting the same, or by competent agents of 
his, until put out." The District Fire Warden is C. C. Conradt of Pukoo. 
RALPH S. HOSMER, 
Superintendent of Forestry and Chief Fire Warden. 
Honolulu, T. H., November 3, 1908. 
PER CAPITA LUMBER-CUT. 
The United States are cutting timber at the rate of 500 feet 
board measure each year for every man, woman and child. In 
Europe the per capita consumption is only 60 feet. At the pres- 
ent rate of cutting-, in less than thirty years all our remaining" 
virgin timber will have disappeared. 
LUMBERING METHODS. 
In the case of yellow pine, which heads the list in the volume 
of yearly output, it is estimated that only one-half of all the lum- 
ber cut is used, the remaining half, consisting of 8,000,000 cords, 
is wasted. This waste is typical of present day lumbering 
methods. 
