Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-11-05
NURSERY HOUSE, DELAYED RULES
FORESTS, BANANAS AND BUGS

Thurston advised that Maunawill, Ma.
kaha, Olaa, and suitable places on Ka.
uai and Maui be selected. Five hun.
dred plants were coming. They could
be distributed in lots Of one hundred.
Those who took them for cultivation
and experiment might be remunerated
by receiving, say, twenty-five per cent.
of the suckers.
Cooper said he would prefer buying
some outright. Giffard was very de.
sirous of taking a number of the plants
for experiment.
The disinfection of imported plants
was then brought up by Mr.. Gl.ard,
who said stuff was coming in from all
parts of the world for the Federal Elk.
pertinent Station and was allowed to 90
to the station unfumigated. This was
perhaps more a matter OF courtesy
than anything else. To be sure. the
Federal Station people had never made
any objection to having their stun han.
died and examined by the Territorial
chronological experts. II was the
sense of the meeting that all imported
plants should be examined and treated
II necessary and action will be taken
accordingly.
Giffard reported great inconvenience
on the wharves owing to the fact that
the rules and regulations of the Board
in relation to the landing and subse.
Quent handling of imported plants,
fruits and so forth had not yet been
formulated. Cooper stated that as de.
mands were made by shippers, accom-.
modations and various conveniences.
they were supplied. Dole wanted
uniform scale of charges published
Regulating the cost of disnfecting and
other handling. Cooper thought this
impossible and that actual cost of ma.
terial and labor should continue to be
charged the owner Of such importa.
tions. Giffard was appointed a mem.
her of the committee on rules and reg.
ulations. He means. he says, to push
matters in this direction. being anxious
for the clearing away of difficulties in
this line.
Thurston stated that U. S. Forester
Hall in his recent report recommended
the early acquisition OF Kahana, on the
mountain side back of Kohala, as a
most essential forest reserve Kahana
belongs to the Woods estate. which has
submitted to written proposition to
the Board offering to exchange the
land. The matter was referred to 4.
w. Carter and J. +. Brown.
At $40 the meeting was adjourned
after some enemies of the leafhoppcr
sent out from Ohio by Professor Koe.
belle had been discussed. Koebele. II
is said, may not find 1t necessary to go
to Australia in his search for insects
TO destroy local pests, having found
in Ohio much of what Is required. The
Professor is expected to return home
shortly.
A communication had been received
from r. A. Jordan, who was very de.
sirous OF knowing for what reason Ger.
tain Australian pineapples shipped to
him had been destroyed. Jordan had
received adyices from the south. he
said. to the effect that there was no
pineapple pest rampant in that part of
the globe.
The Board acted in the matter of the
pineapple plant destruction only after
mature and earnest elaboration and,
although the members feel for the loss
sustained by those who imported the
promising plants, they acted for the
benefit of the territory, a member Of
the Board personally sacrificing a lot
Of the plants he had himself imported
rather than precipitate a new and dan.
gerous insect on the unsuspeCting
pineapple industry of Hawaii