The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-05-22

try held its first meeting for two
months yesterday afternoon. The ac-
emulation of reports and business
was such that it was nearly six O'Clock
before the business was accomplished
and much of it then was left undone.
Another meeting viii be held next
| Wednesday afternoon.
David Haushs, the Forest nursery
man, made a report containing much
of interest. Among other things he
said:
SEEDS AND PLANTS.
MANY of the correspondents on our
seed exchange list are anxious to pro-
cure seed of our indigenous plants An
effort is being made to collect native
seed for this purpose. Two hundred
| herbarium specimens of Australian
trees, ordered by US some time ago,
have been received in good condition.
| The specimens were collected and sent
to US by Messrs. ]. Staer & Company,
Wahroonga, New South Wales, Aus
tralia. The specimens include over
sixty species of the eucalyptus genus,
! also a large number of the most valu-
able and best known trees in Australia.
This addition to the herbarium will be
of much value and save a great deal
of time in classifying specimens sent
to us from all over the islands. All
the specimens sent have been mounted
on our own paper and placed in the
herbarium cabinet. The mounting and
listing was done by Miss Eleanor Writ,
who deserves much credit for the neat
and efficient work.
1.-The work in the nursery has been
principally routine work connected
with the propagating of new seed and
raising of plants for windbreak and
forest purposes. $4,000 seedlings of the
ironwood are being raised for the
Paauhau plantation and 5000 of same
kind for Lihue plantation"
HOMESTEADERS AND FORESTS.
Mr.. laughs also reported on an ap-
plication of F. S. Lyman, homestead
er at Paumalu,. for leave to use small
trees and dead timber of the forest
reserve adjoining his homestead, for
fence posts along the line of his home
recommended that he be allowed to
take the dead timber but the forest
was too thin to spare any live trees.
| He said that he did not think that if
there were good road from the rail-
road station Mr.. Lyman would bother
with cutting trees from the forest but
would use redwood posts. Mr.. Haughs
said the building of the fence would be
a benefit as it would tend to keep cat
tie out
George R. Carter moved that Mr..
Lyman be given permission to take
such dead timber as he needed from
the lower edge of the forest, without
damage to the growing forest, the per-
nit to be limited to three months from
June 1. This was adopted.
Mr.. Carter said that he favored Civ
ing such permits to any homesteader
who would be benefited by it, as ii
would be an advantage to the forest
and it was desired to secure cordially
of effort between the Board and the
! homesteaders in the interest of the
forests and forest reserves.
DISCHARGE OF BALLAST.
An opinion from Deputy Attorney
| General w. L. Whitney was received
on a question referred to him by the
Board on a request from Alexander
| & Baldwin that rock and soil ballast
might be discharged at the outer end
of the breakwater in Kahului harbor.
AS the Deputy Attorney General and
the Board did not look at the matter
+lo g e
was referred back to the committee
on entomology to confer with the Dep
uty Attorney General.
NO MORE SCABBY POTATOES.
Assistant EntomoloaIst Kotinsky re-
ported that during April, Of S4G9 Iar-
GELS inspected, 100, scabbv pc. atocs
from Puget's Sound, had been destBny-
ed and three parcels fumigated, largely
as a precautionary ualsLre. The ef-
feet of the rigid exainIration and n
spection of fruits AMI vegetables has
been to practically Danish sca5by ana
otherwise inferior potatoes from amcns
the importations to the Islands.
Mr.. Kotinsky also reported:
TROUBLES AT HILO.
BRO. Matthias Newell, the Boards
chronological Inspector at Hil0, has
for some time past been complaining
of the abuses of the inspection laws
and diregard of his instructions by a
number of concerns involved in the
process of importation. In response he
has been supplied by this office with
a number of copies of our circulars eX-
pounding the laws and regulations of
inspection. He has also been offered
some suggestions on the modus oper-
andi to avoid the difficulties complained
of. His latest report is that all OBJ
stacles have been removed and he is
satisfied nothing enters via port of
Hilo without being inspected.
1T has been found that the inspec-
ton lists prepared for US by officials of
the various steamers arriving in port
are neither uniform in character nor
are the data contained in them in full
compliance of the law. After con-
sultation with the Committee on En-
tomology, and under instructions from
its Chairman, it was decided to draw
up blank for the purpose and have
it printed in large numbers for dis
tribution among importers for their use
in supplying the required data"
Territorial Veterinarian Norgaard
made full reports of the course of work
in his division. There have been two
outbreaks of CHAMBERS. President Golfer