The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-07-22
PLANTERS MUST
NOT Be SP|TEFUL
Land Board Announces That the
Homesteaders Must Not Be
Harassed.
THE RICH AND POOR EQUAL
Board Considers LARGE Number
of Applications and Grants a
Number of Them.
THE RICH AND POOR EQUAL

If any plantation tries to discourage
homesteaders by using its influence to
make homesteading conditions hard for
them, it viii be an uuIuckv day for the
plantation. This, at least. is the way
! the advisory land board size up the
| situation. and the board is fully de-
| termined that nobody shall throw a
| chunk into the wheels Of progress with
ont being made to suffer for it.
| The matter came up for discussion
yesterday afternoon unoficialIv, the
| land board having not vet officially
convened. One of the commissioners
stated that he had been given to under
| stand that some of the plantations were
intending to try TO make conditions
hard for homesteaders in order to dis
courage homesteading and leave the
government land in the possession of
the plantations.
"What are we going to do in the
| case of such a plantation,' he asked.
"when it comes before Us with an
application for the renewal of its
! lease?'
''Soak it. - exclaimed the rest of the
board with enthusiastic unanimitv.
/ And that is what the board virtually
agreed upon. If it IS found that any
plantation is trying to discourage home
stealing in Hawaii, that plantation will
be soaked whenever the board gets
chance TO take hack at it.
/ Commissioner Trent made the state
cent that he had been severely jumped
on by some on account of the action
of the board at its previous meeting in
resolving to put the Makiki residence
lots up to sale by drawing instead of
at auction. cone man came TO me, -
said Trent. "and claimed that it would
be an outrage. Why, he said. that
will allow a poor man TO get lot
alongside a rich man.
And the board laughed
The board had about fifty applica-
tons to consider, hut did not have the
time Yesterday afternoon and conse-
: quentlv an adjournment was taken until
eight o'clock last night. But before
the board adjourned il acted on two or
three matters.
The University Club applied for the
, lease. for fifteen years. Of the lot at
the corner of Miller and Hotel streets.
offering to pay an annual rental OF
$3.50 for the same The board wanted
to know if the club would not rather
purchase the lot outright. Mr.. Camp
! hell thought il would. and expressed the
opiniOn. in which the board concurred,
that Il is bad policy for the Territory
10 retain ownership and lease town
property where it can be sold. It was
: finally decided to let the matter go
| over for the present to give the club
A chance to offer, if il chooses. TO buy
the LOT outright.
, The board consented TO the applica-
| ton of the department of public in
strnction to exchange a two-acre lot at
Watertown for land in Kalihi owned
by the Bishop estate. Publication IS
waived.
Night Meeting Warm.
\ heated discussion took place at
. last night : meeting Of the board. Ii.
: II, Trent said many persons desiring
- homesteads had gone to him with
charges that they had been turned away
from the land office and told their ap-
, lnIicatjons were not made out properly
; and that they had received no dlTee-
: tions as to what to do. Mr.. Trent was
J he said led to believe that scores OF
p natives had failed to get correct lnfof
: nation. probably because they could not
: understand clearly what was told Ihem
Commissioner Marston Campbell, be
. mo RESPONSIBLE for what was done ID
, the land Office. was quick to explain MS
2 side of the case.
: .sAIreadv.' said Mr.. Campbell, we
. have received applications enough 10
I keen hundred surveyors busy five year
: running off the homestead lands. Al
2 Communications have been answered oH
; me personally. o,,irof
r new blanks for applications ana LOT d"
h Iaavits. The office force has been "oIN
n NO constantly on the preparations l0i
; +naI action upon the appHeaUoH9' a"'
the last Of the blanks-the ahdaFl'9-
viU be ready tomorrow. 4 good MA u
, Hawaiians have come to the once q
i hean told they would have to "aIt 10.
! the blanks to be printed EVlden' )
L they did not understand, and Went I,
/ NJ Trent with a complaint that the,
: had been told that their applications
+ we're not regular and that they "1I'
\ not told how to prepare them properly
cat the present time we have III =
Il nine tracts ready for homesteadlng.
The explanation was satisfactory u
+ Mr. Trent and the following apP..'o'
e TONS were taken up for consideration
u First National Bank Of Hilo. for m
K purchase of land IN HAo .eld u
= Ifoosas us and 80 The bank offers ''
. nav 81. 253 for the land. Ac''oD o'
2 ferred. 7ou7 o.
R. H. Hitchcock, exchange. lana I, q
< +ralapue. Molokai. Exchange barred ..
y Kamoike Kantaro, lease Of AP2n2, "a:
- Hi1o Is acres. at SIS year FloI'