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When the fishing company applied, to the Governor of 
Department 
of Agricul¬ 
ture asserts Hawaii, for a lease of an area of land for their headquarters 
control 
buildings, an investigation was made of the legal status of 
Weakness 
of long- 
range 
control. 
the island under discussion. The Department of Agriculture 
interpreted the executive order as meaning that the islands 
within the executive order, were and are under the exclusive 
control and administration of the Department of Agriculture. 
The fishing oompany had therefore to make application to the 
Department of Agriculture. The Department asserted its 
administrative control of the land, thereby denying any 
authority of the Territorial administration as represented 
by the Governor or any of the departments of the government 
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of the Territory of Hawaii. 
I questioned the soundness of such method of adminis¬ 
tration, although the position of the Department of Agriculture 
might be entirely legal. An opinion rendered by the Solicitor 
of the Department of Agriculture supported in every detail 
the general claim made by the bureau of the Department of 
Agriculture, having the matter in charge. 
Attention was called by the Governor of Hawaii to 
the weakness of the long-range control that must result. A 
business organization residing and operating in Honolulu is 
thereby forced to deal with officers of a bureau five thousand 
* 
miles away, when the government of the country is presumably 
fairly well represented and protected through the Governor 
and laws of the Territory. 
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Attention was called to the difficulties that beset 
the Territory of Alaska, through a large number of bureaus 
centering in Washington that control the destiny and, in the 
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