Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-18

@. You just naturally assume that
| he does?
Fisher: Mr.. Ashford do you want
to ask any questions, IL so you may
Ashford: How much experience In
cane culture have you had?
Mcwayne: worked q short time
| on the Waimanalo Plantation. "a
Ashford: Less than year?
McWayne: Yes.
Ashford: Have you thought OF the
proposition of homesteading cane
lands here, and II SO. do you consider
your experience sufficient to justify
you in expressing an opinion?
McWayne: No, don't think so.
Ashford: That is all.
Fisher: We are very much obliged
Mr.. McWayne.
Fisher: Now let me see, Mr.. Not
ley is one Of the gentlemen suggested
to hear from. Mr. Motley
Fisher: Mr.. Motley, what is your
first name?
Motley: Charles Kahiliaulani Not,
ley. -
Fisher: notice that you have been
an interested listener at these hear
ings. Are you a land owner, q land
renter, or 90 you own homestead?
Notiey:I am homesteader.
Fisher: You are homesteader?
A. Yes.
Q. How long have you been trying
to homestead q piece of land?
A. Since 1879.
q. How did you happen to go into
the homesteading idea?
A. Well, don't know; I had to
provide for my family and thought I
would take up a homestead and try to
build up home for the family.
made mistake. / took up a home
stead in 1893 instead of 1879.
Fisher: That brings it down to
modern times about IA years ago.
Motley: Yes, about IA years ago.
Fisher: Where was that?
|. A. In the Hamakua district OF the
Island of Hawaii.
q. Under what plan did you take
up the homestead?
E A. Under right-of-purchase lease.
Q. Were there others interested.
with you in the matter at the same
time?
A. There were others with me.
Others were taking up homesteads
about the same time. In fact, ! think
in 1888 and 1889 / was one Of the
first surveyors who laid out the home
stead lands.
Z @. 1t was ten years after that be-
fore you took up your own home
stead, then?
A Yes
&. Were there others who took up
homesteads under the same plan?
Yes, under right-of-purchase lease.
i think all the homesteaders In the
.Hamakna district, except few, took
them up under right-of-purchase
leases.
What was the nationality Of those
homesteaders?
They were mixed; some Hawaiians
and some Portngnese.
What is your nationality?
Z j am part Hawaiian.
s And you are married? How much
Of a family have you?
/ have been married 35 years.
How many children? 8
Four children and six grandchil-
dren.
When you started in demonstrating
were the children living at home?
Yes.
Q. What were they-boys or girls
"A. Two boys and two girls.
@. About how old were they then?
A. They were just attending school
@. How large piece did you take
up?
A. took up a 72-acre piece.
@. ~ acres?
A. Yes.
And what were you planning to-
raise on it?
Coffee 4.
Were there other people in that
neighborhood also interested in coffee.
at that time?
A. Yes.
You thought at that time that you
could make a success of raising COT
fee?
Yes. REH
How did it work out?
I am still in the coffee proposition.
You are?
Yes.
You have not turned your ground
over to other things?
No, have not.
understand that other people have
turned their land into cane, pineap-
pies, or to whatever it was best
adapted.
A. Yes, heard the talk here the
other day. ] think they turn 1t over
to the plantations to make money
quicker. 1t is the best proposition for
a poor man to go into, provided the
government gives him a little help.
Q. What kind of help?
A. / think the government ought
to give him little money to begin
with, to help him to live up there In
the forest
@. How would you have them 60
about it?
A. ! believe that the Territory Of
Hawaii should be run by q utility
man, and he should be man who
would look after the interests of the