The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-10-05

receipt OF the cable instructions.
The Collector OF Customs, under In
structions from the Secretary OF the
Treasury. withheld delivery OF the rice
until It was thoroughly fumigated.
Since my last report flfty-five 1851
steamers and sailing vessels arrived In
port from outside the Territory. bring
ing one hundred and thirty-four thou
sand five hundred and ninety-four
u34.594) packages of fruits and vegeta-
bles. This does not include the Is. TAG
sacks of rice we fumigated During the
same period we inspected one hundred
and thirty-seven d3O packages by
mail. The reason for this large in
voice by mail was the receipt OF fifty
t5O packages of Cacao plants from the
Department of Agriculture. Washing
ton. d. c.. and thirty-five (35) pack
ages Of sisal plants (21O) from the same
place. The former had been treated
with Bordeaux mixture, but had. some
living mealy bugs. These and the sisal
plants were fumigated here with hy-
drocyanic acid gas. Four "a large
cases of plants also came in and were
carefully inspected and fumigated.
Respectfully submitted.
ALEXANDER CRAw,
Inspector.
NEW FIRE wARDENS.
Mr.. Hosmer presented list of new
fire wardens and foresters, which was
approved, as follows:
Manager of Parker Ranch for South
Kohala: A. F. Knudsen for western
Waimea, Kauai: Walter d. McBryde
for western Koloa, Kauai: Mr.. Moir,
manager of Onomea plantation, for the
section above the plantation; George
Fl. Moore. assistant district fire war
den for Nuuanu and Pauoa Valleys.
INTEREST IN RUBBER.
Superintendent Hosmer makes two
reports on the work of his division
as follows:
October 3. 1906.
Board of Agriculture and Forestry,
Honolulu
Gentlemen: I have the honor to sub
NIT the regular report of the division
of forestry for the period from August
29th to date.
TRIP TO kauai.
My own time during a considerable
portion of this period has been occu-
Leaving Honolulu on September 4th, I
spent three days at Lihue, going over
with Mr.. C. S. Judd, the figures which
he had been collecting during the pre-
ceding month, and discussing with him
plans for the completion of the field
work and the preparation of the report
resulting from his investigation. Dur
ing this time / also visited the two
Ceara rubber groves in the planted for
est at Lihue and in the Kaluahonu
Gulch at Koloa, and made further ar
rangements with the Lihue and Koloa
plantation companies, looking toward
the experiments in systematic tapping
of these trees, which are soon to be
undertaken under the auspices of this
Board and the Hawaii Experiment Sta
ton.
From September Sth to the Goth was
engaged in making an examination of
the Mauka portion of the Kona and
Waimea districts of Kauai, visiting in
turn Mr.. Walter d. McBryde, Mr.. Fran
els Gay and Messrs. Augustus and Eric
knudsen. Thanks to the courtesy of
Messrs. Gay and the Knudsens l was
able to see much of the upper portion
of Waimea. AS result of this eX-
animation | shall in the near future
submit report recommending forest
reserve boundary extending from the
present private reserve of the Lihue
Plantation Company at Kilohana
Crater, back of Lihue. around to and
including the Napali district. On
Thursday, September 20. in company
with Mr.. S. Weinzhemer. manager of
koloa, 1 went over the proposed boun-
dary on the mauka portion of that
plantation, as I had earlier in the
month visited with the Rev. ]. NJ. Lid
gate, the proposed forest line across
Mr.. G. N. Wilcox's land at Haiku.
From September 21st to the cath, in
elusive, l was engaged with a trip to
Hanalei in company with Messrs. w. r.
Rowell and Fred f. Harvey, of the sur
vey office. The object of this trip was
to examine certain land within the
boundaries of the Halelea forest re-
serve on which Mr.. Rowell had ex-
pressed a desire to grow rubber. This
matter will form a subject of a report
to the Committee on Forestry in the
near future. on September 25th / re-
turned to Honolulu, where l have since
been engaged with the preparation of
reports and attention to routine matters
of the division of forestry.
August 29th 1906.
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture
and Forestry Honolulu, Oahu.
Gentlemen: have the honor to sub
nit the regular report of the division
of forestry for the period from July
18th to date.
TRIPS TO kauai AND HAWAII.
My own time during this period has
been occupied with the two trips to
Kauai and Hawaii, respectively and
with duties in connection with propos-
ed forest reserves and routine work of
the division.
on July 23rd Mr.. C. s. Judd was ap-
pointed special forest agent i'm the d.
vision of forestry. and on the cath
went over with him to Lihue Kauai, to
start the work of making measurements
In the planted forests of the Lihue
plantation, which he is TO carry on this
summer. Returning TO Honolulu on
July 49, was in Honolulu for a week
Then on August I visited the districts
OF South Kohala and Hamakua on Ha-
wall, looking into forest problems on
the Kohala Mountain. on the land of
Kaohe and in the section above the
Hamakua sugar plantations Many of