Honolulu star-bulletin., 1916-03-29
Kauai DEMANDS
ACTION ON LAND
FOR HOMEsTEADS
Year of Delay is Criticized
as Against Public
Policy
HOPE GOVERNORS VISIT
WILL RESULT IN BENEFIT
.Riyenburgh informs Landhold-
erS No Contract for Over
Five Years Approved

Governor Pinkham has informed
the Kapaa and Waipouli homestead
ers Of Kauai that he will not consider
a planting agreement between the
homesteaders and any plantation Tor
a longer period than five years.
This information has been sent to
the Kauai landholders through Land
Commissioner Riyenburgh, in the
course OF letter informing them that
the governor will visit the district
sometime between April and 10. The
governors visit follows close upon
the Star-BuIIetin's agitation for action
in the delayed Kapaa contracts and
Lihue railroad matters.
Land Commissioner Rivenburgh's s
letter TO the Kauai homesteaders
says:
Il beg to notify you that Governor
Pinkham and myself will be at Kapaa
sometime between the 1st and 10th Of
April. The exact date will be wire
lessed to the sub-agent sufficiently
ahead OF time for her to spread the
news around the district.
IT Is our desire al this time to
discuss all matters affecting the home
steaders: the conservation and dis
tributicn of water. as well as planting
and harvesting agreements For your
information, ] would state that the
government will not consider a plant
ing agreement made between the
homesteader and any plantation for
longer period than five years.
What Kauai thinks.
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long delay In settling these public
matters is shown in an editorial pub
lished by the Garden Island yesterday.
The Garden Island declares emphati-
caily that the year Of delay has been
needless and has hurt homesteading.
The editorial says:
sThe governor is coming to Kauai
and. as we understand II, with the In
tention Of settling definitely, one way
or the other, the question Of railway
facilities for the homesteaders in the
Waipouli and Kapaa settlement re-
gicns.
This waipouli question always
beset with difficulties and more or
less of a conundrum) has not been
improved any by the delays to which
il has been subjected; and the gov
ernor. or anyone else trying IT, viii
find his (or their hands full in any
effort that may now be made toward
a settlement satisfactory to all in
terests involved. AS we understand
the facts, the Izihue Plantation Conn
pany, which advanced the original
proposition to supply railroad facili-
ties to the homesteaders Of most OF
the region in question, has been prac-
tically eliminated from calculations,
perforce of the delay in negotiating
satisfactory terms for putting in their
railroad, II being now too late to build
railroad from the Lihue side into
the district for handling the first crop
Of cane, or. perhaps. two crops OF
cane However, even this might be
affected favorably by such proposals
as the governor may have to put for
ward when he arrives here.
Public interest In this whole mat
ter has been confined land is still
centered in, be II said and emphasiz
ed to the success of homesteading in
the Kapaa-Waipouli region. A sue
cess had been made of homesteading
at Kalaheo, on this island. There
conditions were slightly different, the
laws were not exactly the same and
the homesteadeps were favored with
most, at least, of the facilities which
they required and had a right to ex-
pect. The Waipouli project was set
afloat under average conditions of
homesteading schemes in other parts
of the islands. The land was all right.
but facilities were lacking. The gen.
eral public has been behind what has
seemed an interminable fight for
these facilities--a fight embarrassed
to greater or less extent by a con.
flict of interests between large indus
y Continued on, page sevenJ