The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-02
HAMA WANTS TO
EXCHANGE LANDS
But Objection is Filed With De-
mand 10 Open u for Home.
stealing.

The principal matter discussed 10y the
advisory land board at its meeting yes.
terday afternoon was AN exchange Of
land between tine Territory and tho
kaeleku Sugar Company While the
meeting was primarily for the purpose
of receiving and filing objections
against the applications for land which
have been advertised, there was enough
discussion over this exchange to indi.
cate the boards feelings on the matter.
The purpose of tho exchange was TO
supply the town Of Hama with public
land for park, school grounds aud
stable grounds About los acres are
involved in the transaction, the plan.
tation obtaining by il land between
Kawaipapa and Mokelehua gulches.
Mr.. Campbell explained that the mo-
tion of exchange came from the county
board of supervisors, rather than the
plantation, which, he understood. is not
overanxious to see the deal go through.
Against this exchange an objection
was filed with the board, and signed by
Marion Cabral and fifteen others, ask
ing that the Kawaipapa lands be opened
to homesteading.
A report on the land was also read
which had been fled by County En-.
gineer Hugh Powell, Mr.. 0giivie and
another They had been appointed as
appraisers. by Marston Campbell, land
commissioner, and in their report they
stated that the land that Hama would
acquire was splendid for agricultural
purposes, was covered with ratoons
that were much better than most plant
cane on Maui, and that it was the best
land in the island for ratooning; fur
ther, that the land that the plantation
would acquire was barren, absolutely
useless for agricultural purposes with
rocky outcroppings appearing so often
that it was impossible to pillow it.
| After this edifying report had been
read by Secretary Brown, Mr.. Trent
stated that if they permitted the land
to be exchanged after reading that re.
port he would neyer be able to look
the Kaeleku Sugar Company in the
face again. He added that he was
ashamed to cheat the company as the
report said they were going to do. In.
cidentally the report was enthusiastic
over the possibilities for the exchange
for the government and said that it
could do no better than make it. In
view of this Mr.. Trent said that he
thought the appraisers had done more
than they were called upon to do and
that the report look like a brief for
the plantation. This caused an uu.
pleasant line of reflection that was
somewhat checked when Mr.. Campbell
kreiterated the statement that he be-
lieved the proposal to have come from
the county rather than the plantation.
However, as the meeting was not
passing on the application, the matter
was passed over until future date
The Kappa land matter came up
again in the application for the Makee
Sugar Company for lease on the ma.
kai homesteads comprising 1890 acres
more or less, at an upset rental of
$4,000 a year. A flow of 100000 gal.
Ions of water daily goes with it, the
government having reserved other
waters for other purposes. No obiec-
ton was brought forward to this APP.
lplication despite the trouble that has
been experienced with it and this fact
brought forth a comment from Judge
Andrade that he believed there had
been some protest made when the deal
was first proposed.
Mr. Campbell explained that a num-
Der of Portuguese had emphaticaly
protested against it, but had not fol-
lowed the protest up. The reasons they
gave, he said, were that they depended
on the plantation as market for their
produce and would not have 1t unless
the sugar company was assured of land
One amusing incident was presented
to take up the time of the board A
] Hawaiian applicant appeared and with.
drew his application for lease which
had been advertised as applied for by
him. The land was situated at Puma.
luu, Molokai, the greater part of 1T be
ing unified for any purpose.
The applicant stated that he wanted
to withdraw his application for leas.
ing it as he now desired to buy it, but
this the law prevented. He finally
ended by taking out application for
demonstrating.