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
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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 fl.
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
and which had been before the board
for action Tor some time.
The Kapaa leases, in fact, were
ready for signature ut the time the
Amended Organic Act was passed,
and then had to take the route pre-
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 beer in the
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than two months, and when the
matter finally came up for consider
alton last week none of the mem
bers knew anything about. the mat
ter, especially Member Trent, who
was the strongest opposed to any
action, and decision was deferred
until the board had chance to go
into the matter more thoroughly.
.sAgain last night the Kappa mat
ter was deferred on suggestion Of
Member Trent, and then that gen
tleman. tied up the matter of the
lease of 10000 acres on Maui to
the, Cornwcll ranch until some fu-
ture lime, 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
cussion over leasing a tract of land
to Brewer X Co. Action on this
matter was deferred, and also action
on Kapaa leases. .....
Trent was "agin" every PROPOSE
ton which was brought before the
board last evening, the lights were
bad. and Member Brown had TO
squirt carefully through his magni-
flying glass to read any communica'
ton. and, all In all, It was an I'M
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, T.. 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, ana
the board agreed. To divide II 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 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 Il, for three reasons-that
II was a lease for twenty-one years
aud he would vote for nothing over
\ fifteen; that the rental was but ten
cents per acre, and that there might
be n 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 Il
In the letter To the Land Commits
sioner by Correa,
There was letter from Cores
stating that petition had been pre-
pared aud given to Attorney TIA
wares, aud he asked II this petition
had been received,
II was the opinion OF all members
OF the board except Trent that thu
suggestion of Joseph that the lanr
should be divided into small rancho
was what Correa referred 10, hu
! Trent said that action should he de
louod Wtil further information wa
received about tho petition
AHdIudu said thai faNarcs was %
town and hr wanted him before lhI
board an uNplalu about the question
ANA what had bryumo ul b. rrru
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