The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-08-27
FREAR AND HIS
LAND POLICY

| Governor Frear seems to have al
ready begun the concrete application
of the abstract principles he enunci-
ated in his inaugural. regarding the
| public lands. AS a result of his con-
ference with Land Commissioner Pratt
held on Thursday, there are all sorts
of things doing in the land and sur
vey departments. These things all
seem to group themselves under these
heads in accordance with the Govern
or's inaugural:
O Land suitable for settlement is
to be gotten into the possession of
actual settlers as soon as possible.
(2) Land not now suitable for set
tlement, or not needed for settlement
at this time, but which may be later.
is not to be sold. but is to be re-
tanned by the government pending its
being needed for settlement. but mean
while is to be leased and so made to
yield revenue to the government.
In accordance with these principles,
Land Commissioner Pratt is preparing
to open a number of tracts for settle
ment, and to lease a number of others.
Where surveys are necessary, as they
are in most cases, he has asked Ter
ritorial Surveyor Wall to make them.
There are to be opened up for set
tlement about twenty more lots at Ka-
laheo. McBryde plantation. This Is
where so much success has been at
tanned in locating settlers on home
steads suitable for pineapple raising
About seventy lots have already been
plated there. W. A. Kinney is as
sisting in the erection of cottages on
about fifty of these, and about twenty
five cottages have already been built.
At Kaapoko, in the Hilo district, log
acres are to be divided up into ten
homestead lots.
At Waiakoa, Kula, Maui, a tract of
land is to be divided up into ten lots
of about twenty or thirty acres each,
to be given to Hawaiians on a99-year
leases.
The Territorial Surveyor has been
asked to locate and describe all rem
nants of public lands in the Kaukona-
hua Gulch. near Waialua, with a view |
to determining what disposition shall |
be made of them.
The Lualualei lot owners have asked |
permission to go into the forest re-
serve above their lots to develop water
for irrigation. This forest reserve is
the Waianae Forest Reserve. It is
probable that license for such pur-
pose will be given them. conditioned
so as to retain the control of the
sources of supply in the government
1t Is probable that the license will pro-
vide that the government shall have
the right to buy any works construct
ed, at their value. The government
still has lands below, which will have
to be watered, if at all. from the
water supply in the forest reserve
Hence it can not allow these sources
to be lost to it's own control. The
terms of the license, If one shall be
issued, have not yet been entirely de-
eided on.
An application has been received
from the Waianae company for a five
year lease of about 1915 acres of ag-
'icultural lands below the forest re-
serve and about S62 acres of waste
and. The upset rental is $500 a year.
This will be advertised very shortly.
A plot of 81 acres of agricultural
| ,
or five years at an upset rental of
Al a year.
A twenty-one-year lease of about 5000
!cres of grazing land at Kahakuloa, ,
Vest Maui, will be offered for sale.
A twenty lease of about ,,
200 acres OF grazing land, mauka of
lailua, Hawaii, on the slopes Of Hua- :
elai, will be offered for sale.
An application for the lease of GER
ain government-owned fishponds at :
lualapa, Honuaula, Maui, has been 1,
eceived. The local land agent has
cen asked to furnish the necessary
on which to base a lease
these. =,
An application has been received for +,
ermission to dig ava on certain gov
rnment lands in Puma. The applica- =
on will probably be granted, but be- =
,re this is done the proper royalty to :
e charged will be fixed. =
Two applications for the purchase OF
overnment land were refused. One
as an application for tract of about
70 acres, and another was for a tract