The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-12-25
PRATT KAPPA
REPORT APPROVED
tFrom Thursdays Advertiser.l

Today, as the result of the approval
of the Acting Governor of his report
and recommendations respecting the
Kapaa lands, Commissioner of Public
Lands Pratt win prepare his advertise
ment putting the Kappa lots on the
market and in thirty days from now.
the lands will be in shape for the ap.
plicants and purchasers to enter into
possession. Yesterday the report and
recommendations were gone over in a
conference between the Commissioner,
Surveyor F. E. Harvey of the Survey
! Department, and the Acting Governor,
and the Commissioner was given the
right-of-way to proceed. His report
was an elaborate one which meets with
the Acting Governor IS hearty endorse
ment and approval.
| The recommendations of the Com
missioner deal with the demonstrating
of all the lands with the exception of
the rice lands and one slice of the
lands at Anahola, which will be re-
tanned by the government and leased
The Kapaa lands proper are to be dis
posed of to actual homesteaders at very
low prices and on terms that will be
on the basis of the desire of the gov
eminent to establish community of
people at Kappa rather than to make
money out of the property. The condi.
tons to be attached to the sale of the
TOWNSHIP lots provide against any fur.
Their extension of the insanitary con
ditions which now prevail in the Ka
paa Chinatown, while the rearrange
ment Of the lots will make a fairly
model little town there. The govern
ment has reserved the beach property
and the buildings now on that section
will all be moved back.
Some town lots will be leased, these
being the ones now occupied by some
of the business Orientals, who could
not obtain property through inability
to become citizens but to dispose!
whom Of their business would be unfair
Others, now aliens, are preparing tc
take out naturalization papers an6
their rights to property will be looked
after.
Reservations are provided for gov
eminent purposes of exchange, tc
straighten local property lines and tc
acquire local property for government
uses; two acres are reserved for Hawai-
ian church and grounds, one acre fol
the Mormon church, block for the
church of the Holy Ghost and lots fol
the Jail and jailer's cottage Much o.
the land will be taken up under tn,
999-year lease system, a cheap way Of
acquiring the property, necessitating {
cash outlay of only seven dollars in all
The applicants under the homestead
lease system will be allowed in add
ton to one of the kula lots at Kapaf
fiat or Kappa mauka an additional tart
lot mauka.
Other of the mauka taro and kuls
lots are to be leased under five.yea,
term at auction and with an upse
price; other lots ON the Kapaa fiat, i'm
proved and unimproved will be leased
for ten years, under conditions which
prohibit subleasing and some other re
strictions, while the town lots will bt
sold at auction. The conditions will
be:
Twenty per cent down and twenty
per cent. each year for four additions
years, with interest at six per cent.
no renting, letting or assignment with
out permission; improvements to b.
maintained; purchaser to pay all taxes
fences to be maintained and conviction
of violation of Board of Health rule
to forfeit agreement of sale, Purchas
ers of unimproved lots are further re
quired to erect a building worth a
least 800, assessed value, the frs
year.
The upset prices on the various lot
and improvements range from $15 t.
800.