The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-07
"The second reason has been our in

"The second reason has been our in
ability to find suitable site.
Although announced, on some au-
thority unknown to me, the Bishop has
made no offer, verbally or formally, tc
the board, of a site for the home al
| though had the Sisters come he I'M
doubtedly would have fulfilled any
suggestions he may have made.
After studying the list of govern
ment lands on the Island of Oahu.
failed to find any whatsoever suitable
on this side of the mountains, so sought
for private land in Kalihi Valley. The
desirable was that known as the Ka-
! laepaa property, said to now belong to
P. C. Jones, Esq.
Later with Mr.. Lyons, inspected
| all the land on the other side of the
island near the Industrial School. There
was no available land on the fat, but
! in the Pupukea Homesteads were some
eighty acres that had been, if I recol-
lect correctly, returned to the govern
ment. 1t was well down toward the
bluff, and the only piece obtainable.
Mr.. Gibson advised me against taking
it from the lack of rainfall. An objec
ton also to that vicinity was raised
that the boys should not be so placed
as to be COMPOUNDED with boys of the
Industrial School under restraint. Dis
couraged, I went to Waimea and Kona.
Hawaii. If the government has any
conveniently-loc suitable land in
Kona, it does not show in the list of
lands or on the map, nor could anyone
point it out to me, nor could I find it.
II was quite favorably impressed with
Waimea, Hawaii, but unable to deter
mine on a site, as all sorts of condi-
tons obtain within a short distance.
81 sent for Mr.. Vredenburg and cor
responded with Mr.. Andrews in an en-
deavor to determine.
With the closing of the year 1906.
the Legislature and epidemic of plague,
L was unable to proceed again to Ha-
wall until shortly after Governor Frear
had established his heads of depart
ments and policy. Soon after, 1 went
to Waimea. and over every portion of
the lands Whereabouts. I became very
doubtful of that location. On my re-
turn, called in as advisers, at an ap-
pointed meeting, all the local members
of the Legislature I could reach. Their
opinion, as expressed, was the home
should be located near Honolulu, and
since then I have considered the prop
erty aforementioned as belonging to
Mr.. Jones, or some adjacent, as the only
suitable location. From the date Of the
meeting mentioned, the WaIlach and
other imperative matters, and the phys
ical disabilities l suffered, controlled
my time until March I then consider
ed, as the term of the president of the
board was about to expire, it was
hardly proper to undertake work in
volvtng SO many problems until it
should be disclosed who should COM
plete the work.
1T would seem to me the spirit of
factious, sensational and yellow criti-
cism might better give way to tangi-
BILE suggestions as to some suitable To-
cation where such an institution would
not be Objectionable to neigh boring res
idents, an obstacle I have met with
where I have turned to private prop
critics, and thus be of kindly assistance
to the board.
THE object of such an article as ap-
peared in the Advertiser is open to the
suspicion of Interior motives"