Waihona Aina

Kiiokalani Ahupuaa, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume B, pps 275-278

The Ahupuaa of Kiiokalani, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit

On this, the 15th day of June A.D. 1874, the Commission of Boundaries for the Island Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit, met at the Court House, North Kohala on the application of G.W. Nawahie for the settlement of the boundaries of Kiiokalani, situated in the District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii. Due notice personally served on owners or agents of adjoining lands, as far as known.

Present: James Woods for Government

Petition read as follows:

(Copy)
I ka Mea Hanohano R.A. Lyman, Komisina Palena aina o Ka Apana Hookolokolo Ekolu
o ko Hawaii Pae Aina
Aloha oe,
O ka mea nono ka inoa malalo iho nei ke nonoi aku nei ia oe me ka mahalo e hooiaio ia
na Palena o ke Ahupuaa o Kiiokalani ma Kohala Akau, Hawaii.
E koho oe i la e hoolohe ai a me kahi e hana ai a e hoolaha hoi ma ke Akea i ike ka poe
mea aina a pau e pili ana me keia Ahupuaa.
Me ka Mahalo, G.W. Nawahie
Kawaihae, Kohala Akau, January 30th 1874

Testimony
Kekuaaea, kane, sworn, I was born in Kona during the reign of Kamehameha 3; came to Kohala when I was very small; know the land of Kiiokalani; have lived there and know its boundaries. I went around with my kupuna and he showed them to me. I used to cultivate food [page 276] on Kiiokalani, Puaiki and Kaihooa. Bounded on the north side by Puaike, there is a kualapa and kaheka at shore called Keawekanu; thence mauka to opposite a resting place called Puukawai, the compass was set between here and shore, when Ama surveyed the land. Thence to Puuleopo, a red pali where I used to cultivate food; thence to Kulana - o -Keoua, a place where Keoua used to stand and see the Kehena hills over the rising ground. This man was twice as tall as the rest of the people; there is an old trail along the boundary and the iwi aina runs mauka through the cultivating ground and thence to a side of a pig pen on Puaiki; the makai corner of Kanalua's land mauka side of Puukilea. Kanalua's runs from the Government road to Kawaihae to the Government road mauka of Kehena hill; This is as far as I saw Kiiokalani surveyed, but I have heard that the survey extends further mauka; He keiki told me that it was surveyed to Kihelea, a large ahua; thence it runs along Puanui, a short dista ....