The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-07

Forestry Commission has been anything
but a success in the sense and purpose
for which manifestly it was created. We
believe that the diversified industries of
the community will be best served by
this Legislature lending its financial as
sistance 10 the utmost limit possible in
furthering the work. of the United States
Department of Agriculture. as undertake
en- by Mr.. Jared G. Smith, the scientific
expert who has been appointed by that
Department as director of the Hawaii
Agricultural Experiment Station. The
appropriation at Mr.. ISfQiths command
at this time. owing to large initial ex-
penditures for clearing of land, laying
on of water. installing pumping plant,
and erection of houses for the managing
director and his assistant, is inadequate
to meet the requirements, if the station
is to yield a maximum efficiency in the
near future We have been informed
that any assistance from the local Gov
. eminent WIN simply mean the ability to
better mature the plans and promote the
results desired in establishing the station
in these Islands.
We recommend that in lieu of an ap-
preparation for agriculture and incident
ais to the. conduct of that Office, the Leg
islature appropriate a sum OF not less
than $1,000 per annum as an auxiliary
fund to be at the disposal of the said
special agent of the Hawaii Agricultural
Experiment Station for use in the estab
ishment and maintenance of the station
during the biennial period for which ap-
propriations are being made
From personal conversation with Mr.
Smith we feel certain that far better re-
suits will be manifest from this appro-
priation for his use than possibly could
be. hoped for under the system of con
Quoting the bureau at this time
We include in this recommendation the
dispensing with the items in the esti-
mates of appropriations as follows: Pay
of Commissioner, 1900; pay of gardener,
s., 040; one laborer, Tantalus new, s432;
one laborer in nursery, s52S; and pay of
tstenographer and typewriter 200 Also
these changes in the ineidentals: Mate
rails, tools, supplies, ETC.. reducing the
amount from $1,000 to $500; strike out inn
portatin of seeds, leaving in the item
only collection of seeds and reducing the
iamount from 1880 to $3.50: strike out sta
ltionery, etc, $500; advertising and print
/! ing. $3.50: competitive exhibition, 81 600:
strike out the word commissioner" from
the item travelling expenses, but leave
the amount. These will reduce the total
| of the appropriations for this bureau by
s15.5S4 We recommend, that the appro-
the esitp1DOIOSlSJ and MS SX-
penses be continued as heretofore and
the entomologist be requested to lend his
assistance in any manner needed to the
director of the experiment station.
Believing in the principle of the pres
Iervation of vital. commercial and agricul-
tural statistics, that these should be coll
lected monthly or oftener if necessary
from the various sources from which the
same can be derived. collated and made
a part of the report of the Secretary of
the Territory, and with the view of per-
imanently establishing service to that
end: and believing that the knowledge
and ability of Mr.. Wray Taylor pecu-
/ iarly fits him for the inauguration of
this work. we recommend that the item
of salary of electoral registrar, under the
office of the Secretary of the Territory,
be made to read Salary of registrar of
ELECTORS and statistical officer. 5000 in
lstead of $1,000
Forestry.-From the personal obserya-
tons of your committee, its members be-
lieve that the money appropriated for
forest extensions lis money that has been
well spent. 1t Is pity that a line of
work so vital to the agricultural inter-
tests of the country at large should have
been neglected so completely by the
Government as has been this matter of
forestry. From the report itself and