Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-06-12
Boys Home.
Farm Land.
In Wai|0ea.

The Board of Health held its regular
weekly meeting this afternoon. Pres
ident Pinkham's message follows:
Honolulu, June II, 1907.
To the members of the Board OF
Health.
Let us consider for few moments
the proposed Home for Non-Leprous
Male Children of Leprous Parents.
The Legislature at its recent ses-
sion having granted an appropriation
for the establishment of a Home for
Non-Leprous Male Children of Lep-
rous Parents, said appropriation be-
coming available July lst, 1907, 1t
would seem advisable the Board OF
Health take the matter under prompt
consideration.
| hand you copies of previous OBJ
servations on this subject.
After frequent consultations with the
Land Department and visits to various
localities [ recommend efforts be made
to establish the Home at Waimea, Ha-
wall
| recommend this because at that
place, to an extent not possible else
where general agriculture, not spec
ialized agriculture, can be carried on
and agricultural machinery OF the most
modern types be used.
Here, too is the most favorable loca-
ton in the Territory to illustrate, car
ry out and train our young men in
American methods of agriculture and
raise some of those prodr".s we con-
sumo, but which, at present. we are
Obliged to import.
Certainly this Territory needs as a
| matter of prudence to raise, to the eX-
tent possible, food-stuffs for local con-
sumption.
Attached is a memorandum by Will
mot Vredenberg, for over twenty years
a resident of Wamea, in which he
sums up the capabilities of this dis
trict.
| trust government investigation
nnd survey would disclose more arabic
land with dependable rainfall than Mr.
Tredenberg mentions.
An inexpensive railway, if capital
lied at cost, of some twenty odd miles
in length would connect the whole dis
trict with Kawaihae harbor and enable
The products of the Waimea plains to
be delivered in the Honolulu market in
t fourteen hours.
The land referred to by Mr.. Vreden-
berg is under lease to the Parker
Ranch until July 1st., 1913.
| The only iand now within control OF
the Territorial Government at Wal
{ is he
Pitman Lease situated a short distance
northwest OF the village, and the
Land Commissioner regards it as site
for summer homes.
This land by a proper landscape sur
vey and plating could ne made a most
beautiful and healthful resort, the
scenery is magnificent, the atmosphere
bracing and withal in the near future
only a nights journey from Honolulu
1t would therefore seem ineXpedient
to apply for any portion Of the Pitman
Lease lands except for the temporary
object below named.
1t might be wise to request the Land
Department to negotiate with the rep
resentatives of the Parker Ranch look
ing to the release of not less than 24O
acres of land, as may be selected on
the area described by Mr.. Vredenberg,
giving in exchange a lease for six
years of a portion of the Pitman Lease
lands.
This institution should be made as
self-sustaining as possible, eventually
entirely SO, therefore l suggest this
Boys Home be provided with not less
Than 240 acres of excellent arabic land
in this dependable evenly distributed
rainfall belt, with an opportunity to
later increase the area devoted to its
purposes.
One hundred and sixty acres of Iowa
and Nebraska land growing the same
produce adaptable to these Waimea
lands, were considered necessary for
the support and reasonable prosperity
of family. The entire labor of rails
ing and harvesting forty acres of corn
was considered the proper yearly stunt
for a robust eighteen-year-ol boy,
though at present the limit is twenty
five or thirty acres as cultivation is
more intense 1t is time to abandon
the idea farmer in Hawaii can pros
per on a few acres, though tropical
products allow him TO exist on fewer
acres than those possible products OF
high elevations. The area suggested
for this Boys Home is noe excessive
TO digress somewhat, permit me Ia
suggest it might not be an ill-adyiseC
step for the government To eventually
divide 5000 acres ul the land described
iuta auuI4UIlly farm Df suif4hIp size
where, uu each farm under the super
vision ul a skilled Horklug farmer u-