Surveys have been made for additions to the Kilauea section of the Hawaii National Park and to the Hilo and Kohala Forest reserves on Hawaii and the forest reserve on West Maui.

Government lands have been subdivided into house lots in Waimea and Kahauloa, on Hawaii, and Waianae on Oahu. The expiration of pasture leases on the government lands of Kaohe and Humuula on the island of Hawaii, with areas of 30,875 acres and 49,100 acres, respectively, and their increased value called for revised plans and surveys of these lands, which are situated on the upper slopes of Mauna Kea.

Boundary studies have been made on the island of Hawaii of the government lands of Lalamilo in South Kohala; Koloaha, Papaki, and Au 1st, in Hamakua; and of the titles in the vicinity of Opihikao, Puna. On the island of Maui, the boundary of the land of Huelo, was determined and the boundary between the government land of Ukumehame and the land of Waikapu, which latter is owned by the Wailuku Sugar Co., was finally settled by a decision of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, in favor of the Territory.

A naval radio station has been surveyed near Hilo, Hawaii. For the aeronautical commission, surveys have been made of a proposed landing field at Koko Head and a detailed topographical survey of the John Rodgers Airport on Oahu, of which latter, 119 acres are above, and 766 acres below high water mark.

Field surveys have been made and plans and descriptions prepared for 39 lots involved in the 7.3 miles of the Kamehameha Highway realignment from Waiahole to Kahana. This realignment is necessary in order to comply with the requirements for Federal aid. A plan has also been prepared showing the whole of this section of the realign

ment.

For the various public offices of the Territory, surveys have been made and plans and descriptions furnished for 25 homestead lots; 230 miscellaneous lots for government leases, sales, and purchases; 19 land exchanges; 73 beach and house lots; and 15 school lots and additions. Eighty-six plans and descriptions of surveys not made by the survey office have been checked for the commissioner of public lands. Four thousand two hundred and sixty-three white and blue prints have been furnished the public and government

offices.

For the court of land registration, 205 plans and descriptions have been examined and checked and 209 reports made to the Land Court on applications. Seventy-nine title studies have been made for the attorney general's office on applications before the land court. Eighteen plans and subdivisions have been checked for the bureau of conveyances.

Topographical and detail surveys and plans have been prepared of the government land of Hanapepe, Kauai, in support of the government's claim for an equitable distribution of the water rights of the land of Hanapepe. In this the survey office was assisted by the Hawaiian Department of the United States Army which furnished mosaic plans, specially made of this section by the United States Army Air Corps. This claim of the Territory is now before the court. A tracing of the map of Maui has been prepared for publication on a scale of 1 inch to 5,000 feet, and arrangements made with the Geological Survey to publish, on one plan, their contour map of the

island of Maui, at present published by the Geological Survey on five separate sheets. Maps of the island of Hawaii on scales of 1 inch to 10,000 feet and 1 inch to 20,000 feet are now being printed for the survey office and will shortly be available. Fifty-two new maps and tracings have been added to the survey office records. The office now has on file 2,820 registered maps and 5,408 minor plans dating back to 1849. All of these records are filed in a fireproof vault in the Territorial office building where they are open to the public for reference, without charge, during office hours.

The survey office continues to keep official time for Honolulu and a small solar observatory is used for time determinations. Daily tide records are also kept of Honolulu Harbor and a station maintained with recording instruments on Pier 6, by the survey office. This latter work is carried on for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

During the year just closed, the Federal Agricultural Experiment Station has devoted its major energies to the solving of the problems most vitally affecting the diversified agricultural industries of the islands. The agricultural extension activities of the station were transferred during the year to the University of Hawaii in view of the fact that the various Federal appropriations for agricultural extension work had been made available to the Territory of Hawaii through the University of Hawaii. The actual transfer of workers and projects was brought about throughout the year as rapidly as the necessary adjustments could be readily effected. With the inclusion of the Territory of Hawaii in the various Federal appropriations under the Hatch, Adams, and Purnell Acts, plans were worked out by the United States Department of Agriculture and the University of Hawaii for a coordinated set of projects under a single director for the enlarged experiment station. These projects are to be financed from (1) funds appropriated direct to the Hawaii Experiment Station through the United States Department of Agriculture, (2) funds accruing to the University of Hawaii through the application of the Hatch, Adams, and Purnell Acts, and (3) funds appropriated by the Territory of Hawaii to the University of Hawaii for the Hawaii Experiment Station. It is felt that this arrangement, effective July 1, 1929, marks a distinct step forward in the develop ment of agricultural investigational activities in Hawaii.

The work of the horticultural division included the distribution of some 28,000 plants or packages of seed of improved varieties of fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Considerable attention has been given to the development of the coffee experimental projects and in this connection a number of the different species have been assembled for use in hybridization and in determining the relative merits of the different species for rootstock material.

One of the most interesting projects of the year was the work with the large native raspberry called the Akala (Rubus hawaiiensis and R. macraei). The individual fruits attain a maximum diameter of 2 inches under favorable conditions. Numerous seedlings have been obtained and are under test at different elevations.

The Macadamia nut tree is receiving increased attention at the hands of commercial growers and every effort has been made to solve the various problems of this industry.

The chemical division has concentrated its attention on various problems which have risen in connection with the edible canna starch industry. A brief survey of the soils of the Kona district of the island of Hawaii was made, in connection with the coffee investigations in that section. Analyses of some 28 range grasses and forage crops were completed during the year.

Chemical studies of Macadamia nuts from various seedling trees have indicated the need of standardization. It has been found that

the content in oil and sugar varies between wide limits. A method based on the specific gravity of the nuts has been worked out to be used in the separation of the nuts of each tree in the different grades or degrees of maturity.

The work of the agronomy division has centered largely around the investigation of such field crops as edible canna, cassava, ginger, taro, kudzu, and sweet potatoes, 130 varieties of the latter being under test. The work with forage crops included variety tests of Napier, Merker, Mexican, and Kikuyo grasses. Attention was also

given to the best utilization of rice lands which are being thrown out of rice production partly on account of the presence of the destructive rice borer.

The Haleakala substation has continued to function in the solution of various agricultural problems for the island of Maui. Some 188 varieties of 60 different species of crops were under test during the year.

During the year the extension phases of the experiment station's activities including the 4-H Club work, were gradually transferred to the University of Hawaii which now receives the benefit of the Smith-Lever and other Federal appropriations for agricultural extension work.

SUGAR EXPERT

For several years the sugar expert was unable to negotiate a better sugar-cane purchase contract for homesteaders in one of the districts on the island of Hawaii where there is rainfall enough for cane to grow without irrigation, and where the terms of the contract between independent growers and the Sugar Mill Co. were such that, excepting with high price sugar, the homesteader growers with small areas in cane were becoming discouraged because of insufficient returns for their labor and were gradually abandoning sugar-cane production.

In the fall of 1928, the Mill Co. was convinced that with certain fixed sugar manufacturing and production charges, and a decreasing output of sugar, its own sugar unit cost of production was increasing. In consequence a new long-term cane purchase contract, with terms more favorable to the growers, was drawn up and signed by every homesteaders who had any cane-producing land. The whole area where cane had ceased to be grown was planted anew with sugar cane early in 1929.

The prevailing low price of sugar has halted negotiations for the bettering of other cane contracts.

The sugar expert is continuing to publicly voice his belief that, given economic and social independence, enough citizen-born youth

iving in the nonirrigated sections of the islands would be willing to take up sugar-cane production as a vocation to soon make immigrant agricultural labor unneeded in those sections. The work of the "Future Farmers of America" on the projects in those sections under the Smith-Hughes school vocational training scheme is beginning to demonstrate the soundness of this belief.

WAIAKEA HOMESTEAD COMMISSION

This commission, created by act of the legislature of 1925 and continued by act of the legislature of 1927, had for its object an equitable solution of the problems arising out of the long-continued controversy between the Waiakea homesteaders and the Mill Co. cultivating, for the homesteaders, sugar cane on the homestead lands and manufacturing sugar therefrom. A new and fair contract, drawn by the commission and finally accepted by the Mill Co., was put into effect on December 31, 1928.

On April 29, 1929, the commission's auditors certified to it that all homesteaders' accounts with the Mill Co. had been examined and made correct to that date from 1918; that the crop accountings, including that for the crop of 1928, were correct and in accordance with the principles of accounting adopted by the commission and accepted by the Mill Co.

On April 23, 1929, occurred the death of the commission's chairman, Mr. William W. Goodale, by which the Territory of Hawaii suffered the loss of one of its most esteemed citizens; a man of unquestioned integrity, great clarity of vision, and rare ability. Mr. Goodale had been connected with the sugar industry of Hawaii for more than 50 years. His counsel in the deliberations of the commission was of great value.

In February, 1929, the commission reported to the governor of Hawaii its belief that under the new contract, with ordinary conditions, more than 90 per cent of the Waiakea homestead area should be free of debt to the Government land office within a comparatively few crops. In his message transmitting the commission's report to the legislature, then sitting in 1929 session, the governor stated that on his present information, he concluded no further legislation was necessary in the matter. The legislature made no appropriation for continuing the activities of the commission beyond June 30, 1929, so that on that date the commission practically ceased to exist.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

The department of public works is engaged chiefly in: (1) The erection, repair, and maintenance of public buildings; (2) the reclamation of insanitary and waste lands; (3) the construction of roads; (4) the construction of piers, wharves, and landings, and acquisition of wharf sites, and in the necessary dredging for the same in cooperation with and under the jurisdiction of the board of harbor commissioners.

The department of public works also cooperates with the several city and county governments in the expenditure of loan funds for roads, water and sewer systems, the plans and specifications for which require the approval of the superintendent of public works prior to call for bids.

Expenditures for the fiscal year amounted to $1,663,412.81, divided as follows: Loan funds, $1,310,983.52; current funds, $183,920.67; special funds, $1,661.67; Federal road aid, $107,740.88; revolving funds, $59,106.11.

ISLAND OF OAHU

Maintenance of Government property. The maintenance and repair of the various Territorial buildings has been performed along the usual lines, such as repairs to the woodwork, plumbing, roofs, repainting, etc. The utmost economy has been practiced, only such repairs having been made as were deemed absolutely necessary.

Due to the ravages of the termites and dry rot, it became necessary to remove the mauka second-story lanai of the capitol building entirely and a contract was awarded for the sum of $5,190 for this work. The entire wooden lanai was removed and the same replaced in reinforced concrete. It was expensive work due to the removing and replacing of the ornamental plastering and ornaments on the ceiling below.

Waikiki reclamation project.-The original contract for dredging the drainage canal and the filling of insanitary lands has been completed, except the lands between the canal and Sheridan Street. This work will be performed at some later date by private interests.

Hospital for the insane.-A contract for completing the construction of one reinforced concrete ward building, one reinforced concrete dining room and kitchen building, one frame administration building, and one frame rooming house for attendants has now been completed. A contract for the construction of one male violent ward building, one female violent ward building, three male ward buildings, two female ward buildings, and one doctor's residence has been completed. Plans and specifications were prepared and a contract was awarded involving the sum of $77,200.70, for the construction of a laundry and power house with the necessary machinery and equipment and a hot-water pipe line connecting the power house with all of the ward buildings and the dining room and kitchen building. This work is well under way and will be completed within the next few months. A contract was awarded for the sum of $11,082 for constructing a cyclone wire fence around the entire institution.

Girls' industrial school.-A contract for the sum of $106,780 for the construction of dormitories Nos. 1 and 2 was completed during this period, also a contract for the sum of $51,000 for the construction of one dormitory and six double garages. Contracts were completed covering the construction of a road leading from the main government road through the institution grounds; construction of four double cesspools, three single cesspools, cattle-pasture fences, etc.; construction of a water-distribution system connecting the various buildings with a 50,000-gallon water tank; construction of a pump house and equipment and a force main from the pump house to the 50,000-gallon water tank; construction of a 3-inch water pipe line from the pump house to Api spring on the Maunawili ranch, a distance of 6,369 feet; a 5,000-gallon reservoir of reinforced concrete adjacent to the pump house and a tunnel with headgate and meter at Api spring; furnishing and installing four oil-burning ranges and burners complete, one each for the three dormitories and the hospital building; construction of entrance gates for the main and service roads,