The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-22
governor GIVES. .
LAND BOARD HIS .
IDEA ON LICENSE
.-sIE r".r5 - t 3. IEt',
Letters To Commissioners and
Single Deal With Hilo Trac-
ton Water Permit
EXECUTIVE WANTS RIGHTS
e OF TERRITORY PROTECTED
Recommends Ten Years Grace
and Twenty Years On Sub
stantiaI Rental

Governor Pinkham told the terri
torial land board yesterday on what
terms he would approve water H.,
cense which the Hilo Traction Company
seeks to secure from this body for a
period of thirty years. The provisions
of'the lease are gone into in general
way by the Governor, who claims that
all this is necessary to safeguard the in
terests Of the Territory--the public.
He concludes his letter, inclosing one
to Robert W. Shingle, president of
the company, with this consideration
81 now leave the matter for the con
sideration of the land board and the
land commissioner.
The letter was read at the meeting of
the land board held yesterday, but ac-
tion on it was deferred and will be
taken up at a meeting to be held today
probably. The absence Of two com
missioners yesterday gave Chairman j
II. Raymond ground for postponing final
consideration of the subject matter
until some future time, which means
that several months may elapse before
the proposition is taken up again, pro
vided nothing is done with it today
Even today's meeting is not GER
tainty.
oficial Indefiniteness
1.-THE board may meet again tomor
row, but m not sure, - said Land Com
missioner Tucker yesterday. He did not
even mention the Hilo Traction Com
pany matter. As a rule, business taken
up by the land board is submitted to
il by the commissioner, through whose
office all these matters are supposed to
pass.
According to the plans Of the Gov
"rnOr, submitted to the land hoard after
he had made Them for its consideration,
the Hilo Traction Company will be
Piven ten years free use of the we er
of the Waikiki River needed for its
business. This, the Governor judges,
will allow the company sufficient time
to "get on its feet. - The water is to
be used for power and lighting pur-
poses only and after that the water is
to be turned back into the river Gun
poliuted,' says the Cove nor.
After the ten-year period the Gov
ernor expects that the water license
will bring $4,000 a year to the govern
ment, or 100000 for the twenty year
balance of the thirty.year term How
hese figures are arrived at no one was
ready to explain yesterday. The Gov
"rnor s letter is given below in full:
Exchanges and Leases
The board also considered q number
Of public land questions. 1t gave its
approval for the sale of the leases of
government lands in PohakulOa, Kona;
Waimea, South KOhala; and Kaohe,
liamakua, all on Hawaii Three acres
and half of land wanted for govern.
ment school lot will be exchanged for
thirty acres Of sand dunes at Kekaha,
Kauai. The board also considers the
disposition Of a number of remnants on
Fort and Lmsitania streets, this city,
but these were referred to the Oahu
members of the board to report on at
later meeting
Permission for a right of way over
government lands for a pipe line tap
Ding the KOekOle gulch in South Hilo
district, Hawaii, the water to supply the
ilonomu plantation vi!lage and camp,
| was granted The right Of way wi net
thirty dollars year to the government
The plantation people preferred to give
some land in pxrbanUp for tha nr;yiIa1a
The nronoseJ exrbanUe Of Ianj Se
tween the Territory and the Knudsnn
estate, whereby the government was r.
secure tho site reGuirad for tbo no,U
wharf and warebouse at Woimaa
Kauai. fell tbrourb In oither caso
the land is worth move than
5000. and under the OrUanie Act
the board is barred from maE.
ing any exchange when the value
of the land is above this amount The
harbor board will have 70 begin con-
dcmnation proceedings to secure the
required property for the wharf site.
Present at the meetina vestardov
were Chairman J, II. RAYMOND. Com.
missioners jacob F. Brown (secretary).
W. Chan Wilder and Bruce Cartwright
.Jr., and Joshua d. Tucker, land com
missioner The absent commissioners
were William II. c. Campbell and j..