The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-22
ACTION MEANS
MUCH TO H|L0
Waimea Lands Containing Two
Hundred One-Acre Lots Re-
leased to Territory by Hilo
Sugar Company-Land Com
missioner Tucker Ready to
Open Property to Home.
builders.

Two hundred acres win shortly be
added to the residence section of the
city of Hilo, capital of the Big Island.
This news will be gratefully received
by all Hilonians who have been trying
to "Watch Hilo Crow, but have not
seen much of this because the town
has for many years been wedged in
tightly between the bay on the east,
the Hilo Sugar Company lands on the
north, the Baker lease over government
lands on the west and the Waiakea
.iifr Company leasehold, also govern
ment land, on the south.
Land Commissioner Tucker, feeling
highly elated ON the successful outcome
of his diplomacy, wirelessed Editor Ii.
Walsworth Kinney of the Hilo Tribune,
as follows, yesterday:
Kinney, Hilo. Waiakea lands re.
leased as per diagram submitted in
February. Mutual congratulations.
: Josh Tucker"
Two hundred LOIS In tract,
The welcome information that the
deal had been finally put through,
whereby about 200 Hilo families will
each get an acre lot within two miles
of the llilo courthouse, was received
by Commissioner Joshua ID. Tucker yes.
terday morning, through a letter ad.
dressed to him by +. M. Swanzy, man
aging director of Theo. ii. Davies &
Company, agents for the Waiakea
Mill Company. The latter company
holds n lease on $4,000 acres of land
known as the Ahupuaa of waiakea
from the government. The lease has
until June l, 1918, to run, or little
less than five years.
The letter was written on August
10 while the resolution passed by the
board of directors of the Waiakea Mill
Company, agreeing to the surrender of
its leasehold on the two hundred acre
tract, was adopted the day before. The
notification reached the land commits.
sioner yesterday. The tenor of the res
olution is as follows:
cat meeting of the directors OF
the Waiakea Mill Company held yes
terday the following resolutions were
passed:
Whereas, The a.ea of land agreed
to be released to the government as
shown by the minutes OF this company
on December 49,. 1912, is not now de.
sired by the residents Of Hilo, and
Whereas, They have indicated an.
other area as that now desired, same
being set forth in the blue print map
marked Schedule b, accompanying the
letter from the commissioner of public
lands, dated February IA, 1913.
- BE il resolved, That the proper Of
ficers of this company be and are here
by authorized to release to the gov
ernment for the sum of 81 90 Zone
dollar), approximately 200 acres out
of the land held by this company under
its lease from the government, said 200
acres to be surveyed by the govern
ment and the boundary lines to be sub
iect to the approval of the officers Of
this company.
In his letter to Commissioner Tucker,
embodying the resolution, Managing
Director +. NJ. Swanzy writes:
"The meaning of this resolution is
that the directors propose to turn over
to the government 200 acres (apprOxi.
mately) of the land as laid out on the
map furnished by you, but until the
surveyors have staked out the land
wished for, it is not possible for tho
directors to know just what the pro.
posed metes and bounds are. When the
survey is made and the bounds APP
proved of, the transfer will be made.
Said to Be Well Located.
The land in question lies to the west
and south of Hoolulu Park at Waia.
kea, Ililo, and, while rocky, is eminent
" fitted for settlement. 1t is practi-
cally level and considered very healthy,
most of it lying Immediately mauka
and adjoining the Hilo railroad Olaa
line.
"I'm leaving for llilo by the Mauna
Kea on Saturday to take up with the
people, who want to get lots in this
tract, the question of the size of the
lots wanted, the width of the streets
and the question of Sidewalks said
Commissioner Tucker yesterday. "And
| tell yon what, / am going to get
their wishes down black and white
and there will be no fooling this time
as there was before, when. after con.
siderable trouble, ] got the Waiakea
Mill Company to agree to release the
tract then wanted, only to learn after
ward that the Hilo people had changed
their minds and wanted something else
"Thc survey required under the
terms Of the resolution adopted by
the board of directors of the Waiakea
Mill Company will proceed as soon as
we can get the men on the Job, and
all expedition will be made TO have
the lots advertised for sale within the
least possible time.
The Waiakea lands, aggregatinp
$4,000 acres, were leased to the Waia
kea Mill Company on June |, 1888, fol
thirty years, at the annual rental OF
$1,000. About 1000 acres is good cane
land: some 2500 acres while not I'll
for agriculture, would make good resi-
dence sites, while the balance is Gov
cred with dense Jungle of lauhaa
ohia and guava bushes.