The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-02
MAY MEAN kONA
DEvELOPM
New Shipping Suggestion
Many Homesteads Taken
"A Labor Union.

HILO, February 28-W. W. Harris
manager of the Hawaiian Lumber Co.
returned to Hilo in the steamer Kinau
Referring to the meeting of the Ha.
waiian Mahogany Lumber CO.. diree-
tors in Honolulu he said:
cat the meeting on Tuesday an en-
tirely new suggestion was brought for
| ward as TO shipment, and one which
| may involve the presence here of Mr.
J. B. Castle, Mr.. Single, Mr.. Thurs
ton and Mr.. Hedemann, manager OF
the Honolulu Iron Works. Tney would
come to look over the ground here
in Puma, at the volcano forest and in
Kona. 1t would probably be couple
of days before this was decided Al
any rate, l look for a settlement OF
the shipping question within a week. .
The suggestion that new shipping
proposition has arisen that would bring
Mr.. Hedemann and Mr.. Castle to Ha-
wall, the Herald says, may indicate an
entirely new plan of operations in
which Mr.. Castle can, perhaps, include
his large undertakings for the develop
ment of Kona with the projects of the
Hawaiian Mahogany Lumber Company
on this side of the Island of Hawaii.
HOMESTEADS SECURED.
After twenty-one days wait, from
February to February q, the Span
iards and Fawaiians secured the farm
lands, under agricultural leases, for
which they had so long been waiting
all of them, perhaps, with one excep-
tion.
All the applicants were Hawaiians
or newly-arrived Spaniards. They all
had more gold coin than was needed
and none of them seemed to know
how much he had to pay. This indi-
|
for others, especially as one man
claimed that he had been paid FIVE dol
lars day all the time he had been
waiting.
Besides the six months rent paid in
advance, Land Agent Williams collect
ed $500 as the value of improvements
~ &
the applicants and their lots are as fol-
lows:
Upper Maulua, North Hilo-
Lot 81, 100 acres; appraised $3.50.
Improvements, $3.50. Olivia Kahaipo
Bila.
Lot So, 100 acres; appraised $3.50.
John Kekoi.
Lot Sc, 100 acres; appraised $3.50.
Antonio Cano.
Lot 81, 100 acres; appraised $3.50.
Chas. Kameenui.
Lot SO, 100 acres; appraised $3.50.
Improvements, $40. Francisco Alva-
RADIO.
Lot 81, 100 acres; appraised $500.
Improvements, $40. Antonio Pretel.
Honomu, S. Hilo-
Lot 5, 26.95 acres; appraised $161.70.
Jacinta Estrella.
Lot 6, 31.33 acres; appraised $187.9S.
Man. E. Cordeiro.
Lot 8, 31.69 acres; appraised $190,14.
Ant. J. EstreIla.
New Olaa Tract, Puma
Lot IL, 1884 acres; appraised
$173.39. Aug. Esser.
Lot 226, 49.08 acres; appraised
$122.70. Not taken.
LABOR UNION.
About forty Hawaiian laborers met
in Firemens hall on Saturday evening
to discuss labor conditions in the is
land of Hawaii, and more particularly
in the districts of North and South
Hilo. The opinion of the meeting was
that a labor union should be organized
to protect the interests of Hawaiian
laborers, especially against the en-
ployment of japanese in positions that
had been and could be satisfactorily
filled by Hawaiians.
Most of the men present were work
ers on the county roads who are dis
satisfied at being laid off when neither
the South Hilo nor North Hilo district
had been in debt.
David Ewaliko acted as temporary
chairman of the meeting and the fol-
lowing committee was appointed to
based upon those of the. unions on the