The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-25
GOOD KONA ROADS
". A. Wall Returns From Sur
VGying Trip.
GOOD PROGRESS BEING MADE
Some History of Road
Building in District.
Has Surveyed Coffee Land
VIII Soon Be Occupied
BY Settlers.

w. A Wall, the surveyor, returned
on the Mauna Loa yesterday, after hav-
ing completed certain work in the cof-
fee lands of Kona. He has been on the
new Government road, now being built
in the district and such work as is be-
ing carried on by Superintendent Bru-
ner and those associated with him, he
is perfectly competent to speak about
In regard to this work, Mr.. Wall said:
''It will be very fine thing when
people can drive around the whole ISL
what an immense advantage it will be,
particularly to those people who want
to see, at their leisure, the various
parts of the Island.
Before talking about the present
road being built from Kailua to Pa
hoehoe, I might say something about
the first roads built in the District of
Kona. When L. A Thurston was Min
ister of the Interior he caused to be
built the road from Hookena, south,
or from the landing to Pahoehoe. That
was the first graded road in Kona.
Then he started on another from
point about a mile above Kailua, to-
wards Maguire's ranch, but this was
never finished. People could not get
from the landing to the beginning of
the road.
1.-TWO years ago Superintendent Bru-
ner built a road from Paris place, Ke-
alakekua to Napoopoo. Before that he
built a graded road from Kailua to Ho-
lualoa
Now, as to the present road. This
runs along from Kailua to Pahoehoe,
the coast line 1t follows the Govern
ment road for a great part of the way,
but deviates, notably from Paris place
10 Morgans coffee plantation, above
Hookena, so that part of the road is
two miles from the sea.
In regard to the new road follow
ing the other one, l might say that it
was Bruner's first intention to follow
another line altogether-a line off the
old road Of course, there was imme-
diately a vigorous kick on the part of
the people whose land was on the old
road, and whose business would have
been seriously impaired had the new
course been followed. The kick was
vigorous enough, and the road was
made to follow the old one for the
greater part Of the way.
while we are along the road, /
might as we'll tell you bit of history
in connection with the Hookena road.
Nahinu was the man put in charge Of
this The Government appropriated a
certain sum of money to build this, and
Nahinu exhausted it all building the
road to his land. There the road stop
ped, and Nahinu was the only one
benefited Then Kuaimoku undertook
TO build a road from HOokena, and he
followed Nahinu's tactics, building the
road to his land, no further. OF course,
there was a kick, but the road was
built and the money spent.
As to the deviation in the new road
from Paris to Morgan's, l have some
thing to say. The limit Of the Keel
| coffee lands, which I have just finished
surveying and dividing off, is just a
little above the deviation. In all there
are some 1000 acres of the finest land
which will undoubtedly be all occupied
! a. the beginning Of the year. Now,
when the planters have settled on
their places they will, to be able TO get
to the landing at Napoopoo, have TO
go up hill to Paris place and then
down on the old Government road, a
distance of seven miles. This might
not have been so, had the old road
been followed, as in the case of the