The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-30
THEY WANT
TO REMAIN
KauIapapa People
Don't Want
to Go.
Lepers and Kokuas Both
Satisfied With the
Settlement.
Board of Health Has Some Queer
Problems to Solve-MoIokai
Matters Considered.

Nearly all of the kokuas and the
persons at the Settlement who were
declared not to be suffering from the
disease have petitioned the Board of
Health to allow them to remain at
Kalaupapa.
If anything is needed as a refuta-
ton of the statement that the lepers
are not well treated at the settlement
the petitions of some of the inmates
read at the meeting yesterday would
be ample. There We're four petitions
read of persons who protested strong
ly against leaving the tomb of living
death" In a number of cases, the pc
tition was needed, in others the Board
maintained the stand taken at the
meeting held in the settlement.
! Both Mrs. Jessie Kaeana and Mrs.
Lahela Amaka, who asked that their
husbands be allowed to come to the
settlement as kokuas. We're granted
the desired permission upon the favor
able report of Superintendent McVeigh.
c. Kopena, who was one of the ko-
kuas ordered to leave the settlement
by the Board of Health and whose
permit was revoked to take effect
August 31St, asked that the order be
changed. He said that he had lived
in the settlement for many years, and
never once had he raised his voice a
gainst the Board of Health Upon
coming to the settlement he had sold
his home outside, intending to remain
for life and now he could not make
a living outside. If the Board still
insisted on its original order he asked
that he be placed in a home some
where else, otherwise he would become
beggar and a vagrant.
Supt. McVeigh, who was present,
stated that Kopena had been a detri-
ment to the settlement ever since he
came there, and had told him that he
would only leave on condition that
he be given a home outside. Further
he had refused to work since his adj
mfttance and had tried to influence
other kolxuas to defy the authority of
the board. The petition was denied.
Mr. McVeigh said that when he had
delivered the order to Kopena, the lat
ter said: Tell the board to go to
am going to stay anyway"
ALLOWED TO STAY.
Quite different was the case of Mr..
and Mrs. Iimihia, who said that they
did not wish to leave the settlement.
They had no relatives outside and no
home to which they might go, while
the money they could obtain for what
property they had, would not keep
them in food for more than two days
Mr. McVeigh asked that this couple
he allowed to stay. He said the man
was a quiet and industrious fellow.
who kept a garden and whose services
were required at the settlement. His
wife had come to the settlement with
her parents when a child and was al7o
hardworking The petition was grant
ed.
ALSO WANTS TO STAY.
Jacb Simms also requested that
he be allowed to remain. He was one
of those placed on the suspect list but
ordered to leave the settlement. Simms
said in his petition that as he was
suspect it would be better for him TO
remain at the settlement, unless ne
was given a clean bill of health.
Supt. McVeigh reported that Simms
was q negro who had been at the
settlement for ten years, and IN all
that time had never done mex OF
work Besides he was a kicker from
first to last and had no ties Wlthlh
the settlement Mr.. McVeigh suggest
ed that it would be a good thing to let
him go and work for living. Inc
petition was denied.
OTHER MOLOKAI MATTERS.
The petition of Sam Kapiko and IA
luwai that they be allowed to WISH
their son at the settlement was grant
| ed.
The petition of Mrs. H X Aylett
that she be allowed to take her young
child TO the settlement was denied.