The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-03-01

pay the costs. The cattle are tres
passing on the forest lands and the
forest line is being destroyed in con-
sequence and is going back all of the
time. Compared with the damage to
| the farmer that TO the forest was
merely nominal.
| Mr.. Won Holt, on behalf OF the stock
men. said Mr.. Nevins had nit the nail
on the head as to nominal damages
when the cattle trespass on unculti-
waited land. If the suggestion that the
land of the cattlemen be fenced or the
damages be made greater what In to
prevent the sugar men from doing up
every owner of a COW or a horse that
happens to get into a cancfeld. The
Hawaiians are fond of horses and in
the country nearly every one OF them
owns one or more. When II comes to
suing for damages and the cane men
get them there will not be kuleana
left to the natives IL this bill should
pass.
Mr.. Clark said that before the Wa
hiawa colony settled on those lands
there were five hundred head of cat
tie feeding on It and the government
got nothing. Today 1t Is assessed at
one hundred dollars an acre. Al Pu-
pukea the railroad company was pay
ing ten cents an acre for lands. TIN
terrupted by Mr.. Won Holt: ION a
fifty year lease'). Since the settlement
was started the government has been
receiving three thousand dollars year
where they got only three hundred or
less before. The railway company
could abandon the cattle industry and
direct its energy to aiding the Guilt
vators and so increase quantity OF
freight that goes to and from the set
Elements. II know of other settlers
who would come here and take up land
but what is the use? II the small far
mer is not to get protection from the
government they had better give up.
1.-THE Dowsetts fence their lands and
the government should compel by law
the railroad company to take the same
precaution in keeping their cattle from
running wild. Not long ago I found
cattle running on the lands at Pupu-
kea and saw that some were the prop
erty of the railroad. I spoke to Mr..
Won Hollis foreman and complained
about it but nothing ever came from
the report; there was no change made.
Among the horses were some belonging
to the Waimea natives. spoke tn
the owners and they have since tied
up their animals and we have had no
trouble from that source
Mr.. Nevins spoke of the responsible
ity OF circus people in cases where
expensive wild animals broke loose. In
cases where they were shot by the far
mers there was no redress for the
owners.
Mr.. Won Holt said he objected to per-
sonalities. He came to the meeting
supposing 1t was to be Of general In
terest and was disappointed to find 1t
was merely local affair, centerinS on
the lands of the settler at Wahiawa
and Pupukea. He showed map of the
land in question and said the railroad
company had expressed Willingness
to fence one side and advance the
for the cultivators to fence the
other side of the tract But they had
refused to do this. He complained
that he had not been allowed to COM
plete his statement without Interrupt
ton. All of the lands that had been
applied for were taken under the pas
toral-agriculture clause which provid-
ed that they must be fenced within
five years. The railroad company had
shut it's cattle out from one portion
of the land and there are thousands
of young trees growing on that land.
The offer of the railroad company to
go still further and fence is an evil
dence of good intent but the settlers
are not content. The only part of the
fencing offer accepted is that on the
Waimea boundary.
AS 1t had reached ten o'clock the |
committee adjourned for one week.