Waihona Aina

Hakalau Nui, Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Volume A, No. 1, p. 250

Hakalau, District of Hilo

Honorable R.A. Lyman, Boundary Commissioner for Island of Hawaii
The undersigned would respectfully request your Honor to set a day for the hearing of & settling the boundaries of the Ahupuaa of Hakalau, situated in the district of Hilo, Hawaii, as per accompanying survey, and having had such hearing, to grant a Certificate for the Boundaries of said Land.
And as in duty bound your Petitioner will every Pray &c.
W.L. Green per E.G. Hitchcock, Attorney at Law
Hilo, Hawaii, August 22d 1873


Hakalau Nui, Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Volume B, pps. 359-364

The Ahupuaa of Hakalau Nui, District of Hilo, island of Hawaii, 3rd Judicial Circuit

On this, the 11th day of February A.D. 1875, the Commission of Boundaries for the Island of Hawaii 3rd Judicial Circuit, met at the Court house in Hilo, Hawaii, on the Application of W.L. Green, for the settlement of the boundaries of Hakalau Nui, situated in the District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii. Due notice personally served on all owners or Agents of Adjoining lands as far as known.

Present: S.W. Akao Hapai for Applicant, D.H. Hitchock for the Crown, and D. Kamai for the Hawaiian Government.

For Petition see Folio 250, Book A

Testimony
Kekualiilii, kane, sworn, I live at Kamaee, Hilo; I was born there, and have always lived there. I was born at the time Kamehameha I returned from Honolulu to Hawaii and remained on Hawaii. I know a part of the boundaries of Hakalau Nui, that old people told me when I was young. Kamaee bounds Hakalau Nui on the Hamakua side of the valley; the muliwai belongs to Hakalau and the dry land on the Hamakua bank to Kamaee. Ancient fishing rights extending out to sea. Thence the boundary runs mauka along the Hamakua side of the stream to a place called Nakama, a hill way mauka in the woods, where we can see the shore; there are branches from the Kamaee side, first one called Kawelo, below the woods; thence the boundary follows up the main stream to where a large branch of the gulch called Wawaa comes in on the Hamakua side; the boundary follows up this branch, passing a branch from the Hamakua side called Wailimu, [page 360] and passing another branch from Hamakua side called Kuamoohua, up the main gulch called Nakama. This is as far as I know the boundaries.

Kamaee reaches to this place; Above this place the gulch is not so deep but is wide; I do not know where Kamaee ends; I have heard that Umauma cuts if off. I have always heard that Hakalau extends to the upper edge of woods. The main branch of Hakalau on the Hilo side, in the middle of the land has a great deal of sand in it. The Wawaa branch has none. I do not know the boundaries on the Hilo side of Hakalau Nui adjoining Hakalau iki.
Cross-examined
The boundary is along the Hamakua branch of the stream; in the valley. Where we used to go fishing in the stream, Hakalau people used to take the fish away from us.

Kanehoahani, kane, sworn, I was born at Kamaee and am a kamaaina. I was born at the time of Ualakaa; and know the land of Hakalau and the boundaries adjoining Kamaee. Fishing rights extending out to sea. The boundary between Hakalau and Kamaee at the shore is at a large flat rock in the water. The water in the stream belongs to Hakalau, and the dry land on the Hamakua side to Kamaee; Thence the boundary follows along the Hamakua side of the stream, passing the stream from Kamaee to a high water fall, thence mauka ....