The following transfers were made during the year in the form of executive orders by the governor:

October 14, 1918: For the use of the board of agriculture and forestry for animal industry and forestry purposes, at Waiakea, South Hilo, Island of Hawaii, 6.15 acres. October 14, 1918: For the use of the division of plant inspection of the bureau of agriculture and forestry, etc., Waiakea, South Hilo, Hawaii, 1,988 square feet.

December 18, 1918: For the use of the Hawaii Arsenal Reservation, subject to acceptance by the Secretary of War, 1.73 acres.

March 17, 1919: For the use of the county of Hawaii as a stable lot, 0.57 acre. June 7, 1919: Teachers' cottage lot and agricultural garden, Hanapepe, Waimea, Kauai, 2.70 acres.

June 27, 1919: For a public park to be known as the "Lehia Park," Waiakea, South Hilo, Hawaii, 54.68 acres.

June 27, 1919: For a public park to be known as the "Pa Pelekane Park," at Lahaina, Maui, 14,020 square feet.

June 27, 1919: For a public park to be known as the "Wailuku River Park," at Piihonua, South Hilo, Hawaii, 245 acres.

June 27, 1919: For the use of the Pearl Harbor Naval Station for wireless purposes, subject to acceptance by the Secretary of the Navy, Wailupe, Honolulu, Oahu, 36,076 square feet.

PATENTS AND COMMUTATIONS.

There were issued during the year 229 patents, covering an area of 2,946.76 acres, for considerations aggregating $106,161.87 or at the rate of $36.02 per acre. Of these 35 were right-of-purchase leases, 10 land exchange, 35 time payments, 7 cash freehold agreements, 47 cash purchases, 44 preference rights, 1 compromise with abutting owner. There were also issued 3 patents based on land-commission awards upon payment of commutation, the area being 3.328 acres and the commutation $34.

REVENUES AND DISBURSEMENTS.

The total receipts of the land department were $545,751.13, as compared with $575,015.21 for the preceding year. Expenditures were $33,905.74.

Rents:

Receipts of public lands department for the year ending June 30, 1919.

NATIONAL PARKS.

There is now pending in Congress a bill to authorize the governor, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to acquire by exchange or otherwise, privately owned lands and rights of way within the boundaries of the Hawaii National Park, such boundaries having been defined by "An act to establish a national park in the Territory of Hawaii," approved August 1, 1916, and all necessary perpetual easements and rights of way, or roadways, in fee simple, over or to said land or any part thereof.

The Hawaii National Park, as defined by congressional act, comprises three separate areas. These are the active volcano of Kilauea at an elevation of approximately 4,000 feet on the side of Mauna Loa Mountain, Island of Hawaii; the active crater of Mokuaweoweo on the summit of Mauna Loa at an elevation of 13,675 feet, and the large extinct crater of Haleakala, on the island of Maui.

A good trail from Kilauea to the summit of Mauna Loa has been constructed by the Volcano Research Association and there will probably be no difficulty in acquiring it if desired by the Government. All of the private lands in the Mauna Loa Park area have been acquired and tentative agreements secured for acquiring the lands, easements and rights of way, desired in the Kilauea area and in the Haleakala Park, as soon as authority is given by Congress.

Hon. Stephen T. Mather, Director of the National Park Service, and Charles Punchard, landscape engineer, visited Hawaii in April for the purpose of studying conditions and expressed themselves as very favorably impressed with the prospects offered by the three separate park areas.

SURVEY DEPARTMENT.

FIELD WORK.

ISLAND OF HAWAII.

Waiakea homesteads.-Nearly all of the arable portion of the large land of Waiakea, near Hilo, was subdivided into homestead lots and house lots. Most of this was cane land that had been under a long term lease to the Waiakea Mill Co. The original request was for a subdivision of 2,000 acres, but public demands on the land office necessitated an extension of the division to include some 6,000 acres, which provided 239 one-acre house lots and 194 lots ranging from 10 to 50 acres, with the greater number between 20 and 40 acres each. Twenty-nine miles of new roads were marked out and 20 miles of existing railways located. Detail surveys were made, such as flume lines, camp sites, school lots, parks, cemeteries, etc., over an area of 270 acres.

Ahualoa homesteads, Kaimu homesteads, etc.-Four lots in Ahualoa homestead tract, second series, Hamakua district, were re-marked. Four lots of the Kaimu tract, Puna district, were subdivided into eight beach lots of about 2 acres each. Waiakea warehouse lots, Hilo, were marked with permanent monuments. A boundary check survey was made of the private property, Ili of Honohononuí, which lies within the public land of Waiakea. A portion of the line of the Olaa Forest Reserve, in Puna district, was established and marked on the ground.

Miscellaneous surveys.-These included additions to Honomu and Halawa school lots; lots affecting improvements to the Volcano Road, Puna, and several other surveys.

ISLAND OF MAUI.

Haleakala homesteads, Makawao. Several lots were resurveyed and other lines established to adjust pending transactions.

Alae 3 and 4, homesteads, Kula: Resurvey made of a large portion to adjust lot lines and roadways.

ISLAND OF OAHU.

Miscellaneous surveys.-New road through portion of Aiea homestead tract; new ditch line through Palolo homesteads; Wailupe school lot subdivided into four shore lots; Kuliouou, Kuaokala, and Pupukea-Paumalu forest and water reserves; additions to Kamoiliili, Kauluwela, and Waipahu school lots; two lots in Palolo Valley for road strip exchanged; four parcels on Alewa Heights for same purpose; lots on Miller and Hotel Streets, and Miller and Beretania, for public purposes; Government lot in Pauoa Valley for exchange; Government lots on King Street and Asylum Road, for sale; Washington Place, governor's residence; Waikiki Beach lots wanted for addition to Kapiolani Park; grades for Kalihi Quarantine Station improvements; location and areas filled portion of Kaakaukukui tide lands, Honolulu Harbor section; home for blind and defective children, Kapiolani Park; 13 lots on Alewa Heights staked; 4 Waiaka house lots re-marked.

ISLAND OF KAUAI.

Hanapepe Valley. Classification and title survey was made of the valley section, including some 89 land-commission awards, portions of the two privately owned ilis, Kuiloa and Eleele, and about 393 acres of Government land.

Kokee reservoir sites.-A contour survey was made of the proposed sites of three reservoirs.

Miscellaneous surveys.-Located roadway and boundary lines between lots 238 and 239, Kapaa homesteads, fourth series, and land leased to Hawaiian Canneries Co.; marked bounds of land commission award within lot 234, same tract; lots 203, 204, and 229, Kapaa homesteads, fourth series, comprising 53.64 acres, divided into 41 house lots; blocks Q, R, S, T, of Kapaa town lots, subdivided into 20 lots; 7 Waimea village lots restaked; Catholic Church lot, Kapaa; section of Lihue-Koloa Forest Reserve boundary fence; two parcels of land in Waimea for road purposes; established lines for widening section of Government main road, Hanapepe; Japanese Church lot, Hanapepe, garden lot and playground lot for Government school, Напарере.

LAND COURT PETITIONS AND FILES.

The department examined and reported on 36 surveys and maps submitted by the land court, and two plans for filing in the office of the registrar of public conveyances.

OFFICE WORK.

A group map of the Hawaiian Islands, drawn to a scale of 1 inch to 40,000 feet, was completed and will soon be published. The first edition will be in two sizes-1 inch to 40,000 feet and 1 inch to 60,000 feet. The larger map is intended to serve as a school or wall map, and the smaller should be of value for commercial and other purposes. As inserts, were added the "Crossroads of the Pacific" map, a smallscale map of the Hawaiian Archipelago, and special plans of the three craters included in the Hawaii National Park.

Special maps of the island of Oahu, showing fishery rights, both Government and private, were compiled. In addition, much other work of checking, examining, and reporting on surveys was done.

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY.

By the separation of the marketing division which the legislature, in special session, made effective on July 1, 1918, this board operated for the benefit of the Territory during the past fiscal year on four lines forestry, entomology, plant inspection, and animal industry.

FORESTRY.

In the work of forest protection, one of the two main activities of this division, a turning point was passed by the completion of the work in setting apart the main forest reserve system in the Territory. During the year, five new reserves were proclaimed by the governor, an addition was made to one, and an elimination from another. The new reserves consist of the Nonou of 818 acres and the Puu Ka Pele of 4,900 acres, on Kauai, the Mokuleia of 6,290 acres, and the Hauula of 9,193 acres on Oahu, and the Olaa of 20,030 acres on Hawaii. An area of 104 acres was added to the Makua-Keaau Reserve on Oahu and from the Puu Ka Pele Reserve on Kauai 415 acres were withdrawn to be turned over to the county for public park purposes. These new reserves include the larger part of forested land which remained to be officially set aside and managed under forestry principles mainly for the conservation of water and the beneficial influence which they may have on the surrounding land.

During April, 1919, a detailed check and tabulation was made of the areas of all lands in forest reserves at the request of the legislature. This revision shows that there are now 47 forest reserves in the Territory, having a total area of 818,739 acres, of which 558,655 acres, or 68 per cent, is Government land.

The work of actual forest protection has progressed at the same time with the completion of this work of forest demarcation. The main efforts have been directed toward ridding the susceptible native forests in the reserves of injurious stock. This has been accomplished in two ways-by the issuing of permits to responsible hunters and ranchmen, and by the construction of new fences and the repairing of old fences to prevent the access of stock. By the first method, over 780 head of wild cattle, pigs, and goats were eliminated from the reserves during the past year. This work will no doubt be greatly facilitated by a new law which authorizes the killing of branded wild cattle in fenced reserves without compensation to the

owner, after giving due published notice. Under the second method, a total distance of 14.87 miles of forest-reserve boundaries was made stock proof during the fiscal year by fencing operations.

The force of eight forest rangers on the four main islands have continued to render efficient service in preventing trespass, performing forest work, such as fencing and tree planting, and in the general administration of the forest reserves.

In spite of an unusually dry winter, only four fires have occurred during the year, but these were extinguished at once with small damage to the forest.

The encouragement of tree planting throughout the Territory was continued by the raising and distribution from the three government nurseries of 297,902 seedling trees during the last calendar year. In the interest of protection against the dissemination of injurious insects in soil around the roots of trees, the division on June 1, discontinued the practice of shipping trees in soil from Oahu to the other islands and to meet the demand for trees on the other islands it has enlarged the Hilo nursery and is now establishing new nurseries on Maui and Kauai.

Tree planting operations have been conducted in four different localities on forest reserves, the greatest attention being paid to reforestation on watersheds adjacent to settlements in order to conserve the water supply. A total of 20,000 trees of various species were thus planted out and cared for during the calendar year 1918 and one-half of these consisted of the native Koa. A new mountain nursery was started in the Waianae Mountains on Oahu, with others to follow.

A section of high mountain country at Kokee on the island of Kauai was opened up to summer campers under a permit system. A total of 48 camp sites were surveyed out on meadow land along mountain streams and half of these have already been taken up under 10-year permits.

ENTOMOLOGY.

The work of the entomological division, performed by a graduate entomologist and two laboratory assistants, has consisted of introducing, propagating and distributing beneficial insects, advising in regard to agricultural and stock pests, and investigating various projects for improving the control of insects detrimental to agriculture and stock raising.

The beneficial insects propagated and distributed have been the Mediterranean fruit-fly parasites, the melon-fly parasite, the corn leaf-hopper egg parasite, mealy-bug parasites, etc. A great improvement has been noticed in the fruits attacked by the fruit-fly and the melon-fly, and the corn leaf-hopper egg parasite has been used as a means of checking incipient leaf-hopper attacks. New field work has not been undertaken on account of unsettled conditions abroad and poor transportation facilities, but in the latter part of the year the cooperation of the California State Commission of Horticulture was secured, and through the assistance of their entomologist, a hymenopterous parasite of the pupa or chrysalid of the cabbage butterfly, the worm of which is very destructive to cabbage plants, has been introduced and its naturalization attempted. Both the parasite and its host were originally European insects. An ex