The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-06
DENS
AC TING IN
GOOD. FAITH
That Is the Opinion
of Commission
er Boyd.
has Been at kau and
Looked Into the
Matter.
The Choicest Lands in That
Section Have Been Reserved
for Farmers.

II have been on the ground and -hav
Investigated the so-called 'Ha&seIdel
Settlement Association on Eaw III verI
closely said Land Commissioners E. 5
Boyd yesterday 81 am sa isfied that
il is bona fde association, and not ar
attempt to get title to land to be used
for some purposes other than those OF
settlement The men who form the
association, Samuel Kauhane, W. NJ.
Kauhane, the four Hayseldens. J. II.
Waipulani and j. II. and ]. II. s. Mar
tin are all personally known to me.
They are ALL or nearly all. employed
on the plantation in the neig1Dorhooj,
and 1 think mean to go and live upon
the lands in the Kiolakaa. Puumakaa,
Paapahaku and Puuea districts when
they shall be granted to them.
1.-THE lands applied for are pastoral
lands, and the men applying for them
are all pra. sical cattle men. The Kau-
nearly all their lives. They ask for
the lands in tracts of 100 and 2O0-acre
tracts, and that is little enough for
grazing purposes The land laws of
the mainland provide for taking SOC
acres. The men in this association, as
1 have said, are all practical cattle men
some of them are now en-
ployed on plantations. One of the Hay
as sugar boiler.
Il believe that they will be able to
with the terms of the law, and
that they mean to do it in good faith,
Tor purposes otner than hone-making. |
II 1t can ne shown that they are not |
acting in good faith, certainly their
petition will not be granted. You
rust remember that I do not act alone
Tor of my own n otion in granting sp-
,licationS for colonization under the
association plan. Every
APPLICATION is considered by all the
leads of the departments of the gov
and il there is shown the
east reason to doubt the bona fdes OF
he applicants. their applications go by
he board.
Further than that, it is not the
hoicest lands in the vicinity of the
roposed settlement that the members
Z this association have asked for. They
ant the pastoral lands. The agri-
ultural areas. the choicest parts of it.
ave been reserved and are ooen to
nybody who warts to make a home
here. There are twenty or twenty
ne of these choice lots. of from forty
, sixty acres. Aid none of these tracts
re included IN the settlement.
II am aware continued Mr.. Boyd,
hat the Settlement Associat ton plan
In be abused. Men can go on and (
'rm an association and get title to
nd that they do not intend to live
pom. purely for speculative purposes.
1t those things are carefully watched.
e character of the intending settler
looked into. ard if there is the least
ason for suspicion the applications
e not gIanted. In the case of this
.rticular associa lion, the people of the
au district have made no particular A
lection 10 the application Certain
if there was anything wrong. it
1uld be known there.
Nobody wants tc get small faTmers
the land Ircre than 1 do. but my
partment, while it is eager 10 help II
ong the work of settling American
rmers here, must also meet the local 81
mand.''