The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-15
HOW THEY SAW TIE FIRE. NA|ALEE IS IDEAL PLACE
SITE FOR BOYS INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL.
The Tract is Beautifully Watered, Has
Fish Ponds and Beach, and the Finest
Physical Environment.

1T is an ideal place for an industrial
school" was the conclusion reached by
the party which visited and examined
the Waialee lands yesterday, where it is
proposed to locate the new industrial
school for boys. The party consisted
of Acting Governor Cooper, Commits
tendent of Public instruction A. T. At
kinson, Prof W. ID. Alexander, A. b.
Wood, T. H. Gibson, and Col.
curtis p, Iaukea. The party left the
Waialua Hotel at 6 o'clock yesterday
morning and went by carriage to the
land of Waialee which is further down
the railroad in the direction of Kahuku.
The entire day was spent in a careful
examination of the property. One of
the most striking discoveries made was
that under the whole land there is
water bearing strata at no great depth,
so that wells can be dug wherever it
would be convenient to have one, and
by the use of windmills water can be
carried to any part of the property.
The evidence of this water bearing stra-
ia is found in a number of springs es-
pecially in the lower part of the land,
and in a considerable number of kule
anas and taro patches scattered
throughout it. In these kuleanas and
taro patches this water bearing strata
has been reached by digging and then
the slope of the land has been sufficient
to carry the water to where it &c need
ed
Regarding the permanence and peren
nial character of this supply of water
| the strongest testimony was given by
District Magistrate j. Kaluhi, who is in
truth kamaaina, a son of the SOIL
on this very property. The party in
| traversing the land found Judge Ka-
luhi veritable Cincinnatus, a white
I haired, white bearded, patriarchal look
! ing man wearing a shirt but no trous-
ers, at work in his taro patch on one
of the kuleanas. When asked about
the permanence and abundance of the
| water and whether it was abundant
just now because of a perhaps unusual
rainfall, the old magistrate replied that
in the seventy years he had lived there
| it had never failed, and that he had
| heard men and women who were old
when he was child, say that they had
never known the water supply to fail.
or the entire konohiki tract of 733
| acres there are about 43 acres of kule-
| anas scattered over it. Most of these are
now deserted and have crown up to
weeds and tangled growth. Only about
ten or a dozen people still live in these
| kuleanas.
The land extends for nearly a mile
along the sea shore. There is a fish
pond which can be made useful and
/ tong stretches of beach of white coral
sand with abundant opportunity for
bathing. The land is on the windwar6
side of the island and hence has the
| healthful AR of the winds fresh from
the ocean The land extends a half mile
or more back to the bluffs reaching
an elevation of about 500 feet. The indi-
cations are that fruits and vegetables
of all kinds can be raised There is
Dasturage in the mountains for tn,
dairy cattle it may be found useful tC
keep. Fodder for them can be raised
There is some swampy land, fertile be
yond belief almost which can be re-
claimed.
The lease of the property does no
expire until September 1, so that unit
then the land cannot be formally trans
ferred to the school authorities Th'
first thing that will be done Will b
to have a complete survey made of th'
land, and then systematic eXamina
tion made of the water supply. The re
suits of these will in effect determin
; the location of the school buildings t
be erected. These will be in all prob
ability in one or the other of two 10
cations which suggest themselves, on
toward the southerly side of the trac
and the other toward the northerl
side. Buildings will then be erecte
and the operations of the school Wi
. be inaugurated.
= Everyone in the party" said Super
intendent Atkinson this mornins
. agreed that a better location for sue
! a school as is proposed, could scarcel
. be conceived of. 1t seems to me
. there ever was an opportunity for
man who felt called to the work c
teaching, it is offered in the industrif
school to be located here. He ought
be a man of zeal for the profession {
= teaching. educated in the full and wild
! sense, and in addition to that practica
resourceful. with a love for cultivatin
: the SOIL for caring for animals, an
Z above all in sympathy with boys. I
! such man the physical conditions
:, Waialee will give every help that ply
steal conditions can give such an IN
, stitution. The appropriation to begi
! with is small, but sufficient to stai
:, with. and the man who in charh
Z will have to be resourceful to make III
>, most Of it, But in this as there mu'
= be growth so under the ri"ht directio
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