The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-06-24
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NEW LAND LAW
Hawaii County Officials Quick
to Ask for Papaikou
Land.

HIIO, June 14--The report Of the
passage by congress Of the amendments
to the land law has caused a revival
Of interest among the local county Of
fcials in the plan of taking up govern.
ment land in the vicinity Of Hilo. Some
time ago about fifteen of the county
officials fled a petition for the opening
OF lands near Papaikou. Now this
matter has been taken up again, but
this time twenty nine applicants have
been found, all OF whom, with COUPLE
of exceptions employees of the county.
These gentlemen secured the services
of @. w. Ashford 30 draft for them a
petition in proper form. This was re.
eeiVed in Hilo short time ago, and
settlement association was immediate.
ly formed for the purpose of taking
up block of land, including the ira cts
of Kaieie, Kawainui and Kulaimanu,
all at Papaikou.
1t seems that in the race for land
old enmities have been forgotten, for
leaders of three political parties, prin-
cipals in opposing factions, are fond
side by side among tho applicants. The
full list of the applicants is given by
the officers of the association as fol
lows:
Supervisor James Lewis, Supervisor
N. X Lyman, Supervisor Stephen De-
sha, Supervisor W. NJ. Kalaiwaa, Sher-
iff Sam Pua, Auditor G. X. Mcguire,
Deputy County Attorney W H Heen,
County Clerk John Kai, David EVA
like, Archie Hapai, Earl Williams, Ben
Brown Jr,, Eugene Lyman, p. A. Vic
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county offices, and VIM. Campbell
grapher NJ. NJ. Springer, Court Clerk
W. Ragsdale, Clerk in the waterworls
Office Harry Hapai, Board of Health
/ inspectors Joe Caceres and @. B. Ly-
man, John Kali, Vasco Osorio, George
Desha Jr., Harry Naope, Harry Brown,
George Akau and John Kakae.
The lands asked for Mt Kaieie includ.
ed 1884 acres which are now under lease
and 222 acres which are not under
lease. There are 347 acres in the Ku-
laimanu tract, while there are 162 acres
available in the Kawainui tract, the
rest of that land having been set aside
for forestry purposes.
A peculiar point of the application
lies in the fact that it has been made
in the form of a settlement associa-
ton, and is still supposed to be in con-
formity with the new amendments,
which have done away with She settle
ment association plan, according to the
land authorities who ought to be well
posted on the subject. Another pecu-
liarity lies in the fact that the lands
are wanted in one block, whereas the
tracts named are in fact separated from
each other by several miles.
| In the meantime the county officials
are not the only ones who are having
an eye out for the fruitful Kaieie lands,
for number of Portuguese, most OF
them living at Papaikou, filed applica-
tions for that tract short time ago.
Individual applications were fled by
the following; Manuel A Dias, Jr.,
Henry de Paiva, James de Rego, j.
P. Pimental, John Arruda, M. Cordeiro,
Jr., NJ. 8. Pacheco. Joaquin Carvalho,
NJ. P. Mattos, J. C. de Aguiar, NJ. A.
Medeiros, Manuel Medeiros, A. F.
Jesus, NJ. G. Comacho, M. p. Thomas,
Il. de Mattos, Chas. de Paiva, ]. Con
salves, J. de Ornellas, Luther de Cunha,
Mary de Cunha, Caesar de Cunna.
These applicants want thirty acres
each. The men give their occupations
as follows: Teacher. stableboy, book
keeper, salesman, barber and clerk, and
the rest teamsters. The two women
give their occupations rs housekeepers.