Waihona Aina

Panaewa Ahupuaa, Lahaina District, Island of Maui, Boundary Commission, Maui, Volume 3, No. 2, pp. 255-271

Before the Commissioner of Boundaries in and for the Second Judicial Circuit, Territory of Hawaii.

In the Matter of the Application of the Pioneer Mill Company, Limited, for the Settlement and Certification of the Boundaries of the Ahupuaa of Panaewa, Lahaina, Maui, Territory of Hawaii.

Commissioner: Daniel H. Case. ´

Under date of August 17th, 1926, the Pioneer Mill Company, Limited, an Hawaiian Corporation, filed before the undersigned, as Commissioner of Boundaries for the Second Judicial Circuit, its application for the settlement and certification of the boundaries of Portions of the Ahupuaa of Panaewa, situate in Lahaina, Maui, Territory of Hawaii.

This application, and the Exhibits ´A´ and ´C´ attached to and filed with it, were and are in words and figures as follows:

That your petitioner is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Territory of Hawaii with its principal place of business in Lahaina, Island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii;

That in and by Land Commission Award Number 11216, Apana 15 to M. Kekauonohi, the Board of Commissioners to Quiet Land Titles under and by virtue of law did award to M. Kekauonohi, the above named land by name only and without survey;
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That the outer boundaries of the said land have not at any time heretofore been settled, determined or certified by any judicial tribunal;

That your petitioner is the successor in title and interest to the said Kekauonohi and the owner of said land and as such owner desires to have the boundaries thereof described by survey, determined and certified;

That attached hereto and made a part hereof and marked Exhibit "A" is a description by metes and bounds of the outer boundaries of said portions of the Ahupuaa of Panaewa, Lahaina, Maui, Land Commission Award Number 11216 to M. Kekauonohi, herein sought to be determined and certified;

That the said description so set forth in said Exhibit "A" of the boundaries as claimed by your petitioner is by a true azimuth survey and is connected by co-ordinates to the Government Survey Triangulation System;

Attached to this application and made a part hereof is a map or tracing marked Exhibit "B" showing all natural topographical features; permanent or otherwise, marked along said boundary lines, the bearings and distances of each course given in the description of survey and such other data from field notes as will make it practicable to re-establish any boundary mark or point that may become lost or destroyed;

That attached hereto, marked Exhibit "C" and made a part hereof is a statement showing the names of the lands adjoining said portions of the Ahupuaa of Panaewa, the boundaries of which are herein sought to be determined and certified, also the names wherever known of the owners of said lands;

Wherefore your petitioner prays that upon receipt of this application you notify this applicant, also the owners [page 257] of all lands adjoining said portions of the Ahupuaa of Panaewa, the boundaries of which are sought to be determined and certified of the date when you will be prepared to hear this application and that you do give proper legal notice of the date and place of hearing" of this application and after hearing you do decide, settle, determine and certify the boundaries of said portions of the Ahupuaa of Panaewa.
Dated at Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, this 12th day of August, 1926.
Pioneer Mill Company, Limited
By (Signed) J.M. Dowsett, Its President
and (Signed) S.M. LOWREY, Its Treasurer
Seal

Territory of Hawaii City and County of Honolulu, ss.

S.M. Lowrey, being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says: that he is Treasurer of Pioneer Mill Company, Limited, petitioner herein and as such is authorized to make and makes this verification on its behalf; that he has read the foregoing petition, knows the contents thereof and the same are true.
(Signed) S.M. Lowrey

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of August, 1926.
(Signed) T. Y. Alina
Notary Public, First Judicial Circuit, Territory of Hawaii.
Seal

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Exhibit "A"
Description of Portions of the Ahupuaa of Panaewa, Lahaina, Maui, Territory of Hawaii
Apana 15 of Land Commission Award Number 11216 to M. Kekauonohi

Lot 1
On Lahainaluna Road
Beginning on the north side of the Lahainaluna Road at the southwest corner of Apana 1 of Land Commission Award 8018 to Alika Mela, the co-ordinates of said point of beginning referred to the "Laina" Triangulation Station, being 6348.0 feet South and 2583.0 feet West, and running by true azimuths:

1. 55° 10´ 286.1 feet along Lahainaluna Road and across Mill Street;
2. 46° 30´ 164 387 feet along Lahainaluna Road;
3. 137° 30´ 88 feet along Apana 2 of Land Commission Award 6551 to Hikikau in Lapakea;
4. 222° 50´ 231feet along Land Commission Award 58 to Mapu in Kopili;
5. 217° 35´ 138 feet along same;
6. 229° 00´ 316 feet along same;
7. 202° 35' 257.4 feet along same and apana 4 of Land Commission Award 4320 to Kaua;
8. 233° 00´ 61 feet along Paeohi;
9. 162 30´ 38 feet along same;
10. 240° 00' 49 feet along same;
11. 305° 50' 83 feet along same;
12. 235° 10' 166 feet along same;
13. 253° 30' 83 feet along same;
14. 223° 50' 108 feet along same;
15. 17° 00' 274 feet along same;
16. 60° 30' 154 feet along Apana 1 of Land Commission Award 8018 to Alika Mela in Opaeula;
17. 150° 30° 10 feet along same;
18. 66° 10' 108 feet along same;
19. 8° 30' 18 feet along same;
20. 32° 15' 110 feet along same;
21. 5° 30' 56 feet along same;
22. 41° 15' 86 feet along same to the point of beginning.
Area 4.30 acres

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