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Revision of There is a natural simplified husinesslike method of 
executive 
order procedure centering in the administration of the Territory of 
suggested. 
Hawaii. I therefore respectfully suggest and recommend that 
the executive order be revised and reissued in terms that 
will give the Territory control over the land which it now 
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has over the reefs immediately below the water. 
Territorial As a result of this discussion and the conditions 
law for 
pearl developed, the Governor of Hawaii recommended that the recent 
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fisheries, session of the Legislature pass a law prohibiting the taking 
of pearl oyster shells from the reef except under rules and 
regulations issued by the Fish and Game Division of the 
Territorial Board of Agriculture and Forestry. The Territory 
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also appropriated $2,500.00 for an investigation of the con¬ 
dition of the pearl fisheries and it is anticipated that the 
Laves tiga-bicm may saver a dreader field tooi#h. eaapimHon 
Advantage 
of local 
control. 
June 18,1929♦ 
with the Bureau of Fisheries in Washington. 
The Territorial authorities have no objection to any 
of the activities carried on by the bureaus of the Department 
of Agriculture or the Department of Commerce. 7/hen it comes 
down to administrative details for carrying on business and 
developing an industry that may serve the people of Hawaii, I 
believe those details should be handled under the authority 
and direction of the Governor of Hawaii, through the appropriate 
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departments of the Territory of Hawaii. The reason for this 
is the obvious one that the work could be done best by the 
officers nearest the scene of operation. A further and possibly 
more vital consideration is the purpose of our government to 
foster local governmental, responsibility as opposed to long- 
range and complicated bureaucratic centralization. 
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