The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-19
RESERVES
GREATLY ENLARGED
Varied Activities Of Board In
Past Year Reviewed In
Annual Report


from forest fires was suffered through
an unusually dry season, according to
. the nnrual report of the board Of
! commissioners of agriculture and for
estry, which was presented to the
Governor yesterday by c. s. Judd, ex
! eCutive officer of the board. The re
port, which fills ten typewritten pages
VIII he made part of the Governor 3
annual report.
= The activities Of the agriculture and
forestry hoard fall under FIVE divisions
in the past year-forestry, plant in
sPection. entomology, animal industry
and marketing. Through action taken
at the recent special session of the
legislature one of these divisions. mar.
d keting, was transferred. 20 n newly ere
atPd commission, the market board
As part Of the boards work tho
, report says the division of forestry
has continued actively to protect and
extend forests with the purpose Of
conserving an adequate and steady
supply Of water for use where indus.
tries largely depend on water for irri.
cation.
Three Reserves Opened
ntcd in the past year and a fourth
has been enlarged. The new reserves
are, that of Papapaholahola Spring on
the Island of Kauai, fifty four acres:
the WaiahOle on Oahu, 1869 acres, and
the Keauohana, on Hawaii, 272 acres
10 the Makawao reserve on Maui 1863
acres were added. In all, now there
are forty two forest reserves in the
Territory having a total area of 773.
SOL acres of which 52l ,557 acres or
siIty.nine percent is government land.
With the formal setting apart Of
four new reserves under plans that are
now about complete the report says
the general foreat reserve system Of
the Territory will be completed. Only
three forest fires occurred in the year
, One of these at Piihonua on Hawaii
occurred in August, the report says
and damaged the native forest there
over an area of fifty acres before it
was put under control The other fires.
a small grass fire at Mali, Oahu, and
small brush FIRE at Waikapu, on
Mani, did little damage.
The recent transfer of the~Island of
/ Kahoolawe which has an area of 81.
go to the land department is men
toned in the report.
Koa Tree Used
The report says the native koa tree
has been used with great success in
reforestation. This work on the omen
government land in the Honolulu wat
ershe1 forest reserve in Manoa valley
has been completed. Reforestation of
the open land on the same watershed
in the Makiki valleys has likewise
been finished. In the past year the
four government nurseries raised and
distributed for planting throughout the
Territory a total of 1884, tree seed
hugs. On Arbor day 12,lll trees were
distributed for planting
The report tells that under author.
ity given by the legislature a campaign
for the protection of bird, animal and
vegetable life on small Islands off the
windward coast of Oahu has been
started
The work of the plant inspection div
ision of the board is reviewed at
length by the report. OF the 7l3 YES
, sells that arrived at Honolulu, HiIo
and Kahului, the only ports where
shipments of fruits and vegetables may
enter directly, 294 carried 299077
packages of vegetable matter which
were examined and $3.50 packages Of
plants and seeds. Inspections of all
shipments of horticultural products
leaving Honolulu for ports on other
Islands have been continued
Entomology Division
Due to distu"h"d roud;tiuns caused
by war, the report SAYS no new work