The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-04-24
DENIES
LONG LEASE !
ON LAND
Request Of Hamalua Mill Com
pany for Fifteen Year Renewal
on 2o7 Acres Of Cane Land
Turned Down Other Matters
of Importance Are Transacted.

The land board met yesterday after
noon, with A.. W. Carter presiding.
commissionors Judge Frank Andrade
J. +. Brown, c. $. Dwight and b. H.
Trent were present.
The request OF the Hamakua Mill
Company for a fifteen.year renewal Of
the lease on 2O7 acres Of cane land al
rental Of Eve dollars PEI acre was
denied. On motion of Trent, seconded
by Andrade, fve.year lease only will
be granted at that figure.
A resolution, presented By Trent on
behalf Of the Kauai chamber Of com.
meree, denouncing the action Of the
board in regard to the sale Of the site
for the Kappa cannery was received
and filed. The Kanai chamber . no.
eolved' that the land board ought TO
deed ten acres to the company at an
upset price of one dollar per acre. AS
this is against the law, no further action
was taken.
On motion Of Trent, seconded by
Brown, house lot No. 80, in the village
of Waiohinu, Kau, was ordered put up
at auction at an upset price OF $50.
Miss Bertha Ben Taylor is an appli.
cant for this lot. b.
A sale to quiet title was ordered OF
7640 feet of land on upper Nnuann
at twelve cents pei square foot This
: is a lot that has been occupied for
many years by the Guardian Trust Com
pany, title of which was recently found
TO rest in the Territory.
Lot Ordered Sold.
A long triangle Of land, running from
point to a maximum width of abopt
two feet along King street, was ordered
sold to the owners of the Mcgully tract,
which il borders. The upset price Is
80 % for 1915 square feet. This trans
action simply rectifse "a surveyor 3
error.
The board granted the application Of
A. M. Brown, on behalf of the Corn
wall ranch, Cor ffteen-year lease Of
various rocky homestead lots and rem.
nants in the lands OF Waiahule and
Waiakoa, Maui, totaling 451.3S acres,
The rental was fixed at twenty-five
cents ,por acre, on ,motion of Andrade,
seconded by Dwight. After Che adop-
ton Of the motion Trent asked that il
20 on record that he did not vote
The hoard asked good many questions
about the character Of the land. u f.
Brown said that he had been over d
good deal Of il, and that while the lots
had been surveyed for homesteals, il
was an too rocky for corn. Some Of
the lots have been vacant for twenty
years, he said. t,sg
Trent Creates Laugh.
A. M. Brown said the land was only
suitable for pigs, cattle and jackasses
to roam over. Trent raised q laugh by
remarkiug, soto voce, that he hoped
no reference to any member Of the land
board having been there recently was
intended.
A number Of village lots at Waimea
Kohala, were ordered to DO offered al
auction on motion of Trent, seconded
by Andsade. This was carried, A, w
Garter not voting. Asts
Frank n. Greenwich made applica
ton for the lease of 1860 acres of graz
ing land on Kealakeha, Konn, offering
$3.50 annual rental for fifteen years
Cromwell claimed that the upper landl
were badly infested with thimble berry
and the lower levels with guaya. Car
ter said that his experience with thin
BILE berry has taught him that the weet
is not so bad a pest as the rancheri
used TO think. 81 have spent thou
sands Of dollars fighting it, he said
Within the last year or two there hal
been an insect attacking this raspberry
that has kept it pretty well in subjec
ton, Andrade said he considered TWEEN
ty,6ve cents a low enough rental 70
grazing land On motion Of Trent, sec
.onded by Brown, the upset rental wa
placed at twenty-five cents per acre TO
fifteen years.