Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-05-06
MAKE MONTHLY
REPORTS To
BOARD

4 number Of routine monthly re-
ports were made mt the BOARD Of Ag
riculturc and Forestry meeting last
Saturday morning.
Forester Ralph HOsm"r tolls Of the
progress of forestry work. most of
which has been mentioned from time
to time, and is reported as getting
along nicely. lie says in part:
at Wailuku I arranged with II. u.
PCnhallOw, manager OF the Wailuku
Sugar Company. details in regard to
the planting of portion of the gov
eminent land of polipoli, set apart
last year as n part of the West Maui
forest reserve. ! also had general
look at the planting which the Wal
luku Sugar Company has been carry
ing on on its private lands on the
lower slopes of the hills above its
cane fields, back of Waikiki. The
notable thing here is the excellent
start which both ironwOod and cuca.
( lyptus seedlings. planted out over n
year ago, are making on the bare.
crodinE slopes, especially on the south
side of lao Valley.
In kOOiau District.
aNfNl I Nlt4ll SfNfldl udNH III lll'
| Eoolau district carefully going over
the forest planting work now in
| progress along the ditch systems con-
| trollCd by the Alexander a. Baldwin
! interests. This planting, for them ost
! part on government land, is being
done Jointly by the Hawaiian Com
mcrcial a Sugar Company and the
/ Maui Agricultural Company, under a
plan drawn up by mo last autumn.
! The general purpose of the planting
! rs to establish shelter belts to assist
| In the return of the native forest on
areas where large numbers of trees
died few years since and to start
! stands of thrifty trees in places now
| without useful vegetation.
ut Is encouraging to note that the
native Hawaiian forest shows indica.
ton of recovery. There has appar-
emily been no setback since the trees
started to grow again and under
growth of certain kinds is consider
ably more in evidence now than II
was a year ago when visited KoO-
Tau.
Considering that the forest ser.
vice appropriations were very mate
| billN 'u' NlllN N'tl ~ ''iNl'NHs 'i'
fact that the allotment for Hawaii
was continued is significant OF the
Importance that Is attached to this
type of work by the forest service
For the coming period It is proposed
to cXpend the forest service money
in continuing the work on the high
mountains and in extending the eu
calyptus plantation in Nuuanu."
I
NurSerymnn's Report.
Forest Nurseryman David Haughi
reports in part
"On the evening of April 30, a II es
cage was sent from the police station
stating that they had received tele
phone message from Kalihi Vale!
notifying them that a fire was raging
in the brush. The writer, along will
Manuel Frcitas, the stable man, drOv,
: up to the top of the valley road, bu
there was no fire to be seen. w,
found out that some Japanese work
ing on Mr.. Francis Gays place hat
, been burning brush in the afternoon
which was probably the cause of the
alarm.
Experiment Garden, Makiki.
"The work at the garden has beer
principally transplanting and pottini
trees. Two of the men employed 70
the purpose Of raising trees for plan
tatiOn companies and othed cOrpor
ations were discharged at the end u
2 the month owing to the want o
% money in this fund to carry on tn
I work. One man will continue to d.
this work during the month of MAY
ut least, enough money being left l.