Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-16
Deliberations of Land Board
Had Sleepy Effect.
On All.
MEMBER TRENT WAS
OPPOSED TO LEASES
Two and 0ne-HaIf Hours
Occupied in Which Mem
berS Believe that Politics
Figure.

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"The Territory has lost about
three thousand dollars In the past
few months because the Kappa
leases have not been acted upon Il.
nally," said the Commissioner of
Public Lands this morning in talk
ing over the dilatory methods Of the
land board in refusing to act on and
confirm the Kappa and other leases
which had been prepared for months
aud which had been before the board
/ for action for some time.
/ The Kappa leases, in fact, were
ready for signature at the time the
Amended Organic Act was passed,
and then had TO take the route pre-
s.ribed By the new law.
II is known that copies Of the Ka-
paa leases. water rights and all pa
pers in the matter have been in the
hands of the land board for more
than two months, and when the
matter finally came up for consider
bers knew anything about the mat
ter, especially Member Trent, who
was the strongest opposed to any
action, and decision was deferred
into the matter more thoroughly
Again last night the Kappa mat
ter was deferred on suggestion of
Member Trent, and then that gem
tlemau tied up the matter of the
lease OF 10000 acres on Maui To
the Cornwell ranch until some flu
ture time. although the lease had
been advertised the sixty days re-
quired by law and no objections had
been received.
! The first part of the meeting was
sleepy in the extreme. and II was
hard for either members or press
to keep their eyes open during the
reading of the minutes of two pre-
viOus meetings and preliminary dis
eussion over leasing a tract of land
to Brewer 4 Go. Action on this
matter was deferred, and also action
on Kapaa leases.
Trent was "agln" every PROPOSE
tion which was brought before the
board last evening, the lights were
bad and Member Brown had to
squirt carefully through his magni-
tying glass to read any communica
tion, and all in all. 1t was an UNI
satisfactory meeting.
From eight until ten-thirty the
board was in session, and In all that
time absolutely nothing was ac-
complished.
The matter OF the Cornwell ranch
was discussed at length, +. r,
Brown of the ranch being present
and addressing the board on the sub
iect.
There was letter in asking that
the ranch be divided into thousand
acre tracts and leased to ten people,
but this was shown by the Land
Commissioner to be not feasible, and
the board agreed. To divide It into
ten ranches of 1000 acres would give
strips one-fourth Of mile wide,
running back from the sea to the
mountains, as any other manner OF
division would not parcel the differ
ent kinds of land out equally.
Andrade made a motion that the
lease be approved, but the motion
was not seconded and Trent said
that, even II II was, he would not
vote for It, for three reasons that
Il was lease for twenty-one years
and he would vote for nothing over
fifteen; that the rental was but ten
cents per acre, and that there might
be petition from the Portuguese
which had not been received, al
though the other members of the
board thought that the letter from
Joseph was the petition referred "a
in the letter to the Land Commits
sioner by COrrea.
There was a letter from Correl
stating that a petition had been pre-,
pared and given to Attorney Ia
wares, and he asked II this petition
had been received.
II was the opinion OF all members
OF the boam except Trent that the
suggestion OF Joseph that the land
should be divided into small ranches
was what Correa referred TO, but
Trent said that action should he dc
Ierred until further information wa
received about the petition.
Andrade said that rayares was In
town ana he wanted him before th,
board 90 explain about the question
and what had become Ut a. Trent