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transportation interests, and Mr. Jared G. Smith, late director of 
the Hawaii Experiment Station and now manager of the Kona 
Tobacco Company, has long been regarded as the special ex- 
ponent of diversified industries. The three first named accom- 
panied Governor Frear to the Conference of the Governors in 
Washington in May, as his "advisers." 
The Territorial Conservation Commission of Hawaii made its 
preliminary report to Governor Frear just prior to his departure 
for Washington in November. It is appropriate that the report 
should be given in full in the Forester. Therefore it needs no 
excuse that a good part of this issue is devoted to the report and 
its appendices. The present report is preliminary. It is expected 
that further facts and figures will be submitted to the Governor 
early in 1909, before the coming session of the Territorial Legis- 
lature. 
To this end the Commission is continuing to collect data on 
various points bearing on the recommendations made. These 
with the report will be made public in due course. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GOVERNORS 3 CONFERENCE. 
A full report of the proceedings of the Conference of the Gov- 
ernors was published in the June number of "Forestry and Irri- 
gation," now known as "Conservation," the monthly magazine of 
the American Forestry Association. 
The Superintendent of Forestry has a limited number of copies 
of this issue for free distribution. Applications should be ad- 
dressed to Box 331, Honolulu, Oahu. 
VENEER WASTE. 
In the veneer industry it is anticipated, in spite of the costliness 
of many of the woods, that great economies can be practised. 
Most veneer is made by the rotary cut, by which process logs are 
steamed until soft enough when they are fixed to a kind of lathe 
and turned against a wood knife. The latter peels off a con- 
tinuous slice, much as an apple is peeled, each turn going deeper 
and deeper till only a core is left. 
The 1907 vanilla crop of the Seychelles Islands was a record 
one. It reached 1,460,932 lbs., and was valued at £66,460. The 
price obtained for the product was also good, being about ios. 
per lb., as compared with 4s. per lb., the average price last year. — 
Annual Report, T907. 
