Waihona Aina

Kukaiau Ahupuaa, District of Hamakua, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume A, No. 1, p. 455

To the Honorable R.A. Lyman, Boundary Commissioner for the Island of Hawaii.

May it please your honor to set a day for the hearing and settling of my land of Kukaiau, situated in the District of Hamakua, Island of Hawaii.
Yours Respectfully,
S. Kopi, per E.G. Hitchock, his Attorney
Hilo, January 29th 1874


Kukaiau Ahupuaa, District of Hamakua, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume B, pps. 440-449

Land of Kuaiau in the District of Hamakua, Island of Hawaii

Petition filed December 1880
Pauilo Hamakua, Hawaii, December 8th 1880
The Honorable F.S. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries, Hilo
Sir,
Herewith enclosed I beg to hand you copy of notes of survey of the land of Kukaiau of which I have become the owner by recent purchase. I will thank you to appoint a time for hearing evidence in connection with the settlement of the boundaries of this land.

The adjoining lands are as follows. Land of Kaao (part owned by native named Moeuhana and part by the Government)
Land of Kekualele 1st, Government
Kekualele 2d, Government
Kaawikiwiki, Government
Humuula, Government
Kaohe, government
Kaholalele, Honorable H.A. Widemann
Kamehe, native named I, residing on the land.

With the exception of the land of Kaohe, the lands enumerated above are separated from Kukaiau by the boundary Gulch. The map of the land I will either forward to you or produce [page 441] at time of hearing the case, as you may instruct.
Yours Respectfully
Charles Notley,
Pas. S.L.S[?]

Land Boundary Commission, Third Judicial District, Hawaii Islands, Island of Hawaii
Land of Kukaiau, District of Hamakua

Met in the Governor's Office at Hilo, March 3d 1881 2 p.m. according to Notice in Hawaiian Gazette of February 16, 23, 30 for hearing this day.

Present C. Notley, the Petitioner; J. Nawahi, acting for D.H. Hitchcock as Attorney for the Hawaiian Government, D.B. Wahine, Keaomakani, and many others, also Kanahipaula, son-in-law to I, owner of Kaimehe.
Petition and Notice read in Court

Evidence

Kaheokaamoku, kane, sworn, I know the boundaries of the land Kukaiau, I was born and brought up on the land with my parents. I now live on Kaao, the adjoining land.

Keaweakau is the name of place where the boundary begins at the sea shore, on South pali of Stream between Kuaiau and Kaao, follow up stream to Paeohi and on to Auhuhu, and on to Maiuhelelei at Aupuni road, and on to Okolepohopoho, and on to Haapuukaai, a bank of stream along Kaao to Keahina[?] and to Palapala, and on to branch stream from Kukaiau, at Mokupepe, and on to Kaleiiki at another branch stream, and on to Kahaleuli, and to Palanihouna, and to Kanamanu; here Kaao ends. Thence up to Puki, along Kekualele, Aupuni land, to Keanapopolo, and on into pili to Kailuilaula, end of one Akualele and up to Puuokamakoa, and up to Hanumakaaha, a bullock pit. Here ends a Keakualele, here Kaawikiwiki joins Kuaiau, and on to Kalepoulaula, and on to Cart road, end of Kaawikiwiki, at end of Kaola as surveyed. The balance of the land remains for Humuula perhaps. Then on to Ahoapuapua, where Hitchcock surveyed; then up to Kanukulua, sharp turns in the stream, thence on up to Iolehaahae, under which is "Kaluamakani" and mauka of Iolehaahae are graves; then across the mauka boundary runs to grave mauka of Puuokiha; then down to Papakaa, makai of Puuokiha, and down on the land to Kamokuuiwi; then to hill of Ahopuapuaa; then to Hapuukahi, and on to the Laumaia ridge; then to Laumaia, and on to Kapaono, and on to Lalakeaike, and on to Kupuku, and on to Pohulimaunakua[?] and on to Pauokainehe, and Kalapahapuu, and on to Kekikiki [page 442] and on to Ipou, and to Alii, and to Kalehuahale, and to Kaeleale, and to Kahonu at Government Road, and down to Helepo, and Piliaama, and on to Koolau, and to Makea, and to Kilohana, at Pali of seashore, on the North side of the stream.

In going up the Kaao boundary, the stream is the boundary to Kanamanu, where it ends and the boundary runs along a ridge a short distance and strikes another stream which is the boundary up to Iliohaehae.

Kaala, as surveyed, ends at the mauka road, and my mother formerly told me that Kaawikiwiki formerly extended up to Iliohaehae between Kukaiau and Kaala, and Humuula joins it, a corner at Iliohaehae. Kaohe joins the mauka boundary; and on the West side, Kaholalele joins Kukaiau down to Kainehe owned by I and formerly Keelikolani's land. The West boundary comes down the Laumaia ridge to the stream at Laumaia, then the stream is the boundary to the sea; thence along the seashore to commencement.

I went with the surveyor to point out these boundaries last year, all around the land, and pointed them out as I have stated. My father, Napauelua, shewed me the boundaries makai, and my "makuahine hanai" told me the mauka boundaries; and that the two graves are the two mauka corners.
Cross-examined
This was the first time I went to these places as my parents told me, i.e. the first time I went with a surveyor. I have often been to all these boundaries before.

The boundary joining Kaao &c is a stream. It is an awaawa (hollow) near Iliohaehae, the Kapohulimukele stream. Curtis Lyons cut of Kaala at the mauka road; the land did belong to Kaala as far up as to Iliohaehae.

Humuula follows the large stream of Kaula, a long distance from Iliohaehae, and Humuula does not really join Kukaiau as some have tried to make it. The old kamaainas are all dead. Hapuukahi is a pile of stones makai of the mauka road. Kaholalele joins Kuaiau again near the seashore.

Kalaanaloha, kane, sworn, When young I lived in Hamakua at Kukaiau and Kaimehe. I once had charge of Kukaiau and when it was surveyed by Samuel Wiltse, Kauwahi and Puelua were the kamaainas, and I went with them; one boundary was a long distance mauka and the hill Iliohaehe ends one boundary. Do not know the lands joining on this side, but on the other side Kaholalele and Kaimehe join Kukaiau below the woods, a stream is the boundary, on each side. I do not know the boundaries in the woods.

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Kanahipaula, sworn, I was born and brought up on Kainehe, Hamakua. I know the boundary. It is a stream (kahawai) boundary between Kukaiau and Koholalele from sea to Kainehe at Umiwai; then Kainehe comes between Koholalele and Kukaiau, boundary follows up stream to Ohulemaunakea near outer edge of forrest at mountain here. Kainehe ends and Koholalele joins again; stream is the bound ....