Waihona Aina

Puaa Nui Ahupuaa, Lahaina District, Island of Maui, Boundary Commission, Maui, Volume 3, No. 2, pp. 289-304

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 Puaa Nui, 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 the Ahupuaa of Puaa Nui, 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 17 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;

That the outer boundaries of the said land have not at any time heretofore been settled, determined or certified by any judicial tribunal;

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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 Puaa Nui, Lahaina, Maui, Land Commission Award Number 11216, Apana 17 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 the Ahupuaa of Puaa Nui, 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 ownersof all lands adjoining the Ahupuaa of Puaa Nui, 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 [page 291] 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 Ahupuaa of Puaa Nui.
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 the Ahupuaa of Puaa Nui, Lahaina, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, Being Apana 17 of Land Commission Award 11216 To. M. Kekauonohi.

Part 1
Beginning at a point on the, northeasterly boundary of the Ahupuaa of Waiokama, Land Commission Award 7715, Apana 3, to Lot Kamehameha, the co-ordinates of said point referred to the "Laina" Triangulation Station being 10078 feet South and 1555 feet West and running by true azimuths:

1. 240° 30´ 309.4 feet along Ahupuaa of Puaa iki, Boundary Certificate No. 7;
2. 236° 00´ 130 feet along same;
3. 148° 30´6 feet along same;
4. 239° 30´ 162 feet along same;
5. 251° 45´ 826 feet along same;
6. 150° 15´ 18 feet along same;
7. 141° 00´ 61 feet along same;
8. 112° 00´ 30 feet along same;
9. 237° 00´15 feet along Apana 1 of Land Commission Award 6218 to Mauae in Wainee;
10. 258° 20´ 230 feet along Ahupuaa of Wainee;
11. 342° 50´ 356 feet along same;
12. 231° 50´ 260 feet along same;
13. 313° 50´ 300 feet along same;
14. 340° 00´ 116 feet along same;
15. 105° 40´ 470.5 feet along Ahupuaa of Kooka;
16. 108° 15´ 140 feet along Apana 2 of Land Commission Award 5458 to Manu in Kooka;
17. 87° 45´ 302 feet along Apana 3 of Land Commission Award 6207 to Kahaka in Kooka;
18. 34° 15´ 104 feet along same;
19. 53° 45´ 285 feet along Apana 2 of Grant 725 to Namauu in Kooka;
20. 60° 00´ 146 feet along Apana 3 of Land Commissi ....