The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-28
TO REVOKE
HIS PERMIT
The Agricultural
Board After
Brigham.
Cacao Pods Allowed to
Come From
Samoa.
Board of Agriculture viii Help
Along Experiment Blue
fields In Demand.

The Board OF Agriculture at yester-
days meeting decided to ask the Score
tary of Agriculture to revoke the per-
nit granted to Curator w. I. Brigham
of the Bishop Museum for the iInporta-
ton of museum specimens. The appIi-
cation will be made directly to James
+. Wilson, Secretary of the Department
of Agriculture.
| There is law prohibiting the inpor-
sgation of obnoxious animals and birds,
laltbough MUSEUM specimens are ex-
empted. At the meeting yesterday, A.
w Carter who with L. A Thurston had
Esbeen appointed on a special committee
to investigate l5righam's importation of
the kea, or sheep-killing bird, made a
report He quoted the law and it's APP
plicatfon to the present case as follows:
Act of Congress dated Nay 25th.
1900, Section 2, provides That it shall
| be unlawful fer any person or persons
to import into the United States any
foreign wild animal or bird except I'M
der special permit from the United
States Department of Agriculture, Pro-
vided, that nothing IN this section shall
restrict the Importation of natural his
tory specimens for museum or scientif-
ic collections, or the Importation of
certain cage birds, such as domes-
ticated canaries, parrots, or such other
species as the Secretary of Agriculture
may Designate
"The importation of the mongoose.
the so-called Flying Foxes or fruit
bats, the English sparrow, the starting
or such other birds or animals as the
Secretary of Agriculture may from
time to time declare injurious to the
interest of agriculture or horticulture
is hereby prohibited, and such species
upon arrival ct any of the ports of the
United States shall be destroyed or re-
turned at the expense of the owner,
The Secretary of the Treasury is here
by authorized to make regulations for
carrying into effect the provisions of
this section.
IT does not appear to be clear that
the Importation of natural history spec
linens for museums or scientific collec-
tions requires a permit. am of the
opinion that these are excepted under
the act and do not require q permit
Having been informed however that
the Director Of the Bishop Museum has
a general perrnit to introduce specimens
from the Secretary of Agriculture
would recommend that the Board re-
quest the cancellation of such permit
Upon motion the report was adopted
and then Mr., Carter moved that the
Board of Agriculture request that Pro-
lessor Brigham's permit be revoked
This motion carried and Mr. Holloway
then moved that the board request the
appointment of an inspector by the fed
eral authorities, who should be under
the authority of the board. This mo-
ton was also carried.
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HosMER MAKES REPORT.
Forester Hosmer made report of
his investigation of the waianae range
and the Eva basin, giving also the
details of the work at the government
nursery and the Nuuanu forest. A
number of plants had been received /
during the week from Mr.. wilcox of
Kauai.
Mr. Hosmei- stated that he had met
representatives OF the Bishop Estate
and w. F. Dillingham; in reference to |
the lands in the districts and said he |
hoped to bring a definite proposition
before the board for the preservation |
of the Waianae forests.
j. E. Higgins. on behalf of the Farm |
ers' Institute, thanked the Board of |
Agriculture for the use of the rooms |
for the meeting of the society.
THE CACAo EXPERIMENT.
A letter was received from Jared g.
Smith stating that the United states
experiment station had leased five acres
of land near HiIo for the purposes of a
banana and cacao experiment. He de-
sired the permission of the board to
import eacao seeds from Samoa for ex-
perimentai purposes. Samoa was stated |
TO be the nearest place from which the |
seeds could be imported, and cacao |
trees in Ceylon, Trinidad and other
ufaces were a ffac+ag5 x,s;41, 49,,
Mr. Giffard told of the results he had |