Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-09

to get a square deal In land matters
1t must BE- through this Board" con.
cluded Trent
What do you wish done, about this
matter questioned Brown.
Nothing at all except to spread my
statement and this newspaper story
on the minutes of the Board" said
Trent, and this was done by motion
OF Judge 'Andrade. .
One of the stories referred To nv
Trent spoke Of faxed homestead ne,
titions and brought in Andradc's
name. to which that gentleman plead
cd ignorance of anything of the kind
Report from Attorney General Lind
say was read relative to the exchange
OF public land for that privately own
cd. The opinion was that such an OK
change could be made lawfully only
when the private land was necessary
for public uses. and could not be made
for mere convenience.
Then Brown brought up the qucs
ton Of the expense attached to ad
vertising in the opening Of lands.
The decree of the Board passed
when II was first organized was that
all lands for sale. lease or exchange
should be advertised once week for
seven consecutive. weeks In three Ian
guages In Honolulu and the district
in which the lands were located.
This procedure said Brown was
making terrifying bills and 1t was his
Frear with whom he had discussed the
matter, that some method must be
found to make this less expensive.
He suggested that as the papers OF
Honolulu had general circulation In
the Territory that the advertisements
should run in these papers alone and
clippings from them be sent to sub
agents of the land Office for posting
in their districts.
1t was the opinion of both Trent
and Andrade that expense ought to
be curtailcd, the amount spent so far
on advertising the first lots to be
opened being more than five hundred
dollars.
After discussing the matter for
some time Ahdrade made motion
that a new resolution be prepared by
Brown amending the former one and
providing for publication in Honolulu
in three languages and distribution oil
these notices.
Here again the discussion came
back to the sand lots at KawailoalelC
by Campbell introducing statement
which hal been made by two of the
men who had applied for homesteads
there.
In this statement they said that
they wanted small piece of land near
the shore where they could have a
hut and dry their fishing nets They
did not want to live on the land per.
manently, nor to cultivate II for II
would grow nothing.
Campbell said that he did not think
the lots should be thrown open to
homestead as they were not 1T for
that purpose.
Trent thought that under the cir
cumstances sale was the proper thing
but that the Board should first inves
tigate for their own information.
Andrade was In favor Of immediate
sale and then Brown said that he had
some curiosity to see the lots himself
and talk with the men who had asked
for homestcads.
Campbell offered the use of two
machines for'the Board tn make the
trip and Il was decided that the mem
bers should start at one O'Clock on
the 18th for special investigation
OF their own and meet the Hawaiians
on the other side for conference.
Next came up the Kappa leases and
for the remainder Of the evening the
Board seesawcd back and forth on
these matters.
No objection had ever been made to
the granting Of these leases and the
water rights, but the members thought
they knew only a little about the pro
position
In that event Brown thouSht READ
ing OF the proposed Kapaa lease would
be of benefit to all concerned and he
proceeded to wade through the legal
and other vcrblage OF large number
OF pages, stopping now and then to tell
the other members of the Board his
version of what the lease really meant.
At the conclusion of the reading
Trent thought that action should be
deferred until the next meeting as he
thought none of the members knew
enough of the proposition to vote in.
telligently upon IT,
Il was at this point that Anhrade
suggested bedtime, telling Brown that
everyone in the room had yawned AZ
least twice during the past half hour,
1--WE have accomplished nothing
here tonight. and ! suggest that we
hold afternoon meetings two or three
times each week In addition to the
Thursday evening meeting in order
that we may dispose of some OF these
matters accommodating before Us aud
pat caupht M with the work