The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-16
MORE POLITICS
ON LAND BOARD

The usual somnolenee of land board
meeting was broken and enlivened last
night, after two hours of drowsy
droning that resulted in nothing, by
the most adroit exhibition of political
sidestepping and low and lofty tum-
bling that it has been the misfortune
of anybody in Honolulu to witness.
R. Fl. Trent, probable Democratic
candidate for the county treasurership,
was the performer, and though he won
no applause for his tricks he neverthe-
less commanded the unwilling admira-
ton of the rest of the board for the
effective manner in which he prevented
any action and headed off any PROPOSE
ton that might not gain him POrtu-
guese or Hawaiian votes.
The proposition on which the exhibit
ton Of political aerobaties was given
was that to lease some ten thousand
acres of government land in Kula,
Maui, to the Cornwell Estate. Mr..
Trent and the otner members of the
board had before this successfully
lodged the Kapas matter again, and
it is safe bet that nothing Will be
done on this until after election-un-
less one Of the two absent members
returns before that interesting biennial
event.
The land now under lease to the
CornweI Estate contains a considera-
bic acreage Of corn land and some al
garoba land along the coast, but this
is taken out in the proposed new lease
The estate offers to pay a rental of
ten cents an acre for the rest of the
land, the same that it is now paying
7 with the valuable corn and algarobf
: lands included.
There was no protest on file agains
the leasing of tic land, which has beer
y advertised for sixty days, but Their
i was letter from a Peter Joseph, ex
/, saIoonkeeper Of Maui, suggesting tina
i instead Of leasing the entire ten thou
II sand acres to one person or corporation
Z" II be broken up into ten one-thousand
= acre tracts and leased to ten persons
le There was also a letter from +. G
10 Couea stating that he and some othe
Portuguese had signed a petition ash
ing for the cutting up of the trac
10 into smaller parcels, and asking til
land commissioner if this petition ha
HtfN AFFtAHftl rum Ia " ~ - ' sAA'1t
whom il had been entrusted.
Commissioner Campbell stated tina
se he had received no petition and Wa
~ inclined 70 think that the Joseph lettt
!, was what the writer referred 70 as
netifi0n.
70 Up 10 this point the members Of II
IL. board. the stenographer and the repor
era bad been rubbing their eyes and e
N deay0ring 20 keep awake through II
fifesome and fruitless proceedings. Isl
~ Trout saw bis chance and he nr0us'
y himaelf-and incidentally the rest
n the huge nssemblage Of nine persons
he IL biz opinion this man TaYar
might have pige0nh0led the petite
with Il giew 10 diaeOumgIng bis eou
tfymeH sa Maui Either that, or Co
missioner Campbell bad actually
eaVfd tbe petition and RETAINED FRA
delivering Il - ibe board,
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