The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-16
WILL
Be Sc 7 TIED
Acting Governor Says
Trouble Is Now
Over.

That long-standing Kapaa settle
ment question is as good as solved, .
Acting Governor Atkinson said yester-
day.
Commissioner Pratt's last trip down
there was quite satisfactory, and l was
very much pleased with the way he
handled things. All of the controversy
over the matter 1 consider as in the
past and a lot of good is going to come
out of it.
In the first place the Hawaiians are
going to get their home plots on the
flats with a piece of taro land for each
in the valley.
Then there are 1000 acres of cane land
which can eventually be settled. The
portion in Kapaa will be cut up into
homesteads.
What is better of all the land in
the back about 1000 acres of pineapple
land will be cut up for settlement as
we'll That pineapple land back there
/ consider, from personal observation,
away ahead of the Wahiawa land. We
shall see pineapple nSgnates come out
of Kapaa as we see them coming out
of Wahiawa.
THE water will have to be handled
by a company or by the Government
itself, for I think that is the only way
satisfactorily to settle the question.
There has been so much pickering and
kicking on both sides of this question
that one hardly knows which way to
turn, but the only thing to do is to
find out what is best for the majority
and act accordingly.
"Not only is there good land back of
Kapaa. but also back of Wailua.
MIR. Pratt is going ahead with these
ideas in view and l think before long
these Kapaa lands will be completely
settled.
1.-THE schooIhouse site being cleared
and the building in process of erection
everything down there is on the move" :"
Mr.. PRATT'S TRIP.
= Mr.. Pratt had his hands full of land
business from the time he landed at
NawiliwiH before dawn Wednesday
until he returned on board
IiIG SISd1IlSE w. 11O4i 4OA AIOiAAC N0EsA-
urday night
Going direct to Kapaa he met some
of the applicants for homesteads and,
ascertaining the nature of sundry trou-
bles that vexed their minds, made an
to meet the whole num-
Der of them on his return to the place
the latter part of the week.
From Kapaa Mr.. Pratt drove over
to Wainiha, where coming Governor
F'rear is camping out, receiving a thor
ough drenching from rain on the way.
He stayed there over night and next
day, in company with Mr.. Frear, Wis
ted the Hanalei homesteads. There
he found the settlers fairly prosperous
and contented, but yet with a few COM
plants to make. One of their chief
grievances was over the neglect OF
some holders to occupy and cultivate
heir lands Mr. Pratt announced that
the remedy for this would be applied II
made necessary-that of requiring the
to make room for bona f1de
settlers unless they made good after
notice.
Returning to Kapaa the Commission
n took earnest heed to the statements
IF the assembled applicants for home
teads. Some of the objections to the
,lan of settlement were decidedly Gu
ious. For instance-in this land-grab-
,ing age-it was almost startling to
lear some natives say the lots were
90 large for them. They did not want
o fence so much land.
Very coed. Mr.. Pratt asked them to |
mark down just what size of lots they
lesired and the surveyor would do the
est. There would be just so much /!
more land for division\ among others.
Some applicants, on the other hand |
wanted more than forty acres of pest
ane land. These were Informed that /
heir wish could not be gratif1ed. The
lotting of the lands has been accord
1g to a standard whereby forty acres
5 the maximum of area of best cane
,nds for one person, the remainder
f the lands being laid out according
o their quality in lots ranging up TO
DO acres.
Mr.. Pratt is enthusiastic over the
-apaa lands and the prospects of hav-
lg them wholly settled by a thrifty
lass of people.
There is not a finer tract or country
1r the size in the islands," Mr.. Pratt
lid yesterday. There are cane lands,
ero lands, rice lands, forest and be-
veen 1000 and 1000 acres of the best
neapple soil in this country. The
ce lands will probably be leased or
I'D Two Chinese rice planters who
re American citizens have applied for
nd to buy and they ought to have it.
THE water will likely have to be
at in charge of representative OF
pe Government or else given to COM
any to handle. For every man to
ok out for himself in water supply
ould give rise to endless disputes.
esides it would be more economical
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