The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-04-25
COMPROMISE FOR
NATIONAL PARK
NEW BOUNDARIES sUoaEsTED
FOR KnLAUEA TO DIsARM
oPPoBrTIoN.

After wrestling with house concur
rent resolution number thirteen for
weeks, the committee on public lands
submitted a report to the house late
yesterday suggesting compromise for
the boundaries of the proposed Kilalea
National Park.
Representative J. II. coney, who in
troduced the resolution petitioning con-
gress to set aside about 10000 acres
for the park and taking in the form
forest and the crater of Kilauea, was
afraid the report would not be made in
time and during the morning session
asked that the house consider it in
committee of the whole.
But Chairman Alfonso promised to
have the report ready by the afternoon
and it was submitted and will be acted
upon today. He explained that there
had been opposition to the boundaries,
as first set, because it took in a large
area of land used by one of the big
companies for fattening cattle.
By the compromise it is hoped to dis
arm those who would have opposed the
bill in congress because Of private in
terests, yet at the same time save to
the people of the Territory and the
country one of the greatest attractions
to travellers in the world, a wonderful
crater of living volcano and fern and
ohia forests found nowhere else.
The report of the committee, in part,
with the new boundaries as proposed
under the compromise, set out in tech
nical terms of a surveyor, are as fol-
lows:
Compromise Proposed
"Your committee held considerable
hearings, at which various and divers
persons and interests were represented.
Your committee has had a new survey
arranged under which some pasture
land of approximately one thousand
acres is left off the proposed Kilauea
Volcano National Park. Your commit
tee found from the arguments ad-
duced during these hearings that the
land is very valuable for ranch-fatten-
ing purposes and does not contain any
thing which really should be incl1ded
in the reservation area. Your COM
mittee has attached hereto revised
description, which it recommends be
substituted for that attached to the
said house concurrent resolution No. Is.
'With said altered description, your
committee recommends that the resolu-
tion be adopted"
The new boundaries are as follows:
Including portions of the lands of
Kapapala and Keauhou, in the district
of Kau, and Kahaualea, Panaunui and
Apau, in the district of Puma, Island of
Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii.
Beginning at a point on the west
edge of the Keamoku Aa Flow (Lava
Flow of 1929, from which point the
true azimuth and distance to Govern
ment Survey Trig. Station 'ohaikea' is
166 deg. 20 min. 6350.0 feet, and run
ming by true azimuths:
"Along the west edge of the Kea-
moku Lava Flow in northeasterly and
northwesterly direction, the direct All
muth and distance being 1914 deg. 45
min. is, ,11S.0 feet;
1885 deg. 15 min. $4,000 feet, more
or less, across the lands of Kapapala
and Keauheu to the southwest boundary
of the land of Olaa;
1929 deg. 81 min. 1920 feet, more
or less, along the land of Olaa;
1880 deg. 90 min. $500 fooe, more
OF Tess, alouS Ine lduu OI hehdu;
1894 deg. 90 min. 1000 feet along
the land of Kahaualea;
1921 deg. 90 min. 30,455 feet, more
or less, across the land of Kahaualea,
passing through the north corner of the
land of Panaunui to the north corner
of the land of Laeapuki;
"31 deg. 80 min. 1920 feet, more
or less, along the land of Laeapuki and
across the land of Panaunui;
"S9 deg. 40 min. 32,225 feet, more
or less, across the lands of Panaunui,
Aqua and Keauhou to Pali-lele-o-K Kali
hipaa, the boundary point on the Keau-
hou-Kapapala boundary;
"62 deg. so min. 6200 feet across the
land of Kapapala;
"101 deg. 90 min. 1900 feet across
the land of Kapapala TO a small cone
about 1900 feet southwest of 'Puu
Koae' Trig. Station;
"166 deg. 20 min. $1,000 feet across
the land of Kapapala to the point Of
beginning.
Area 1925 acres"