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Kahuanui Ahupuaa, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume A, No. 1, p. 453
Honolulu, September 185h 1873
R.A. Lyman, Esquire, Commissioner of Boundaries on Hawaii, Hilo
Dear Sir:
Until I received your letter of the 26th ultimate, I was under the impression that I had applied to you for settlement of boundaries of J.W. Austin's lands on Hawaii, Kahuanui in North Kohala and Pauau in Puna. As his Attorney I now request you to define and settle the boundaries of those lands. The names of the lands on either side of them, and of the owners mediator. I remain, Very Respectfully Yours,
Charles R. Bishop, attorney for J.W. Austin
Kahuanui Ahupuaa, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume B, pps 144-146
The Ahupuaa of Kahuanui, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit
On this, the 25th day of November A.D. 1873, the Commission of Boundaries for the Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit, met at the house of James Woods, Kohala Ranch, North Kohala, on the application of C.R. Bishop, Agent for J. W. Austin for the settlement of the boundaries of Kahuanui, situated in the District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii.
Notice of hearing, at the Waimea Court House, South Kohala.
Served by publication in the Hawaiian Gazette of [left blank] and Kuokoa of [left blank] and continued at Kohala Ranch on the 24th and 25th instants.
Due notice personally served on owners or agents of adjoining lands, as far as known.
Present: James Woods for applicant and for all parties.
for Petition see Folio 453 Book A.
Testimony
Kekua, kane, sworn, I was born at the time of Aepapa and have always lived at Kahua until lately. Kahuanui is bounded on the Kona side by Waika. Commencing at the mouth of a gulch the boundary between the Ahupuaa and Kupono begins at a landing place called Kaiopae; thence mauka along the Kuponos to Ahukuli, a pile of stones; thence mauka to Puueoka, a heiau; thence to along stone named Pohakuloa; thence to Kamakaiwi, a resting place; thence to Kapio; thence to Ahumoa, the boundary running through the hills; thence to Puuiki; thence to Kanoa, where fire used to be; Thence to Kahawaikukae, to pali of Kahawaiki; thence to Kahawaiholopapa; thence to Ainamakanui at the head of Honokane Gulch.
The kupono Kahawainui, Kukui runs up here. Waika ends at Pahoakala, a place where they used to gather mamaki. This is as far as I [page 145] know the boundaries on this side. I have heard that the land runs down to Mahiki in Hamakua. When Lyons surveyed Waika he cut across the kupono of Kahua and included them in Waika. Know a place called Ahuanaha. The real boundary is from Oneloa to Kapai, a pile of stones by the road; thence to Kamamukaa, where the gulch is the boundary between Waika and Kahua. The boundary crosses the gulch to the Kohala side at Ahuanaha; thence it runs to Ahuakapaakea; thence mauka to Kalehua; thence up the gulch to Moalau (The pile of stones is way on the Kohala side of the gulch, but the boundary is at the gulch). Thence past Macy's (G.W. Macy's) old house and mauka to Hookeke; thence to kahawai Palapalai; thence mauka to the pali of Kaloloulaula on Pili; thence to Kapohoakala; thence along to Kahaliaina, a place below Puupala, where Kawaihae joins Kahua. From Kahaliaina the boundary runs along the foot of the pali to just above Puuwau on Kahuanui. Puuwau is a hill a short distance back from Pili; thence to Hinamakanui, a cabbage garden on the brow of Honokane pali. The boundary at shore between Kahuanui and Kahualiilii is a rock in the middle of the sea called Kahuapopolo.
(Note: Kaauwai, kane puts the boundary a few rods on the Kohala side of this rock.)
Thence to Waiakanalopaia, a pool of water at the end of the gulch, thence to Pohakupalahalaha ....
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16. 268° 43.5' 2076 feet along Kahua liilii to the South brow of Puu Iki hill;
17. 266° 17.75' 7738 feet along Kahua liilii to a projecting spur on the edge of Honokane pali, from which point the pali makes a sharp turn to the Southwest, the coordinates being North 1461.0 feetEast 19342.2 feet referred to the Puu Aiea Survey and Reference Station;
18. 21° 17' 3130 feet along Honokane nui, Certificate 172, the boundary following the windings of the top of the pali to a I [bar across top and bottom and through middle] on a stone set in the ground on the South peak of the Hinamakanui crater this point being the common angle of the lands of Honokane, Waika, and Kahua nui, the coordinates being South 1454.3 feet East 18206.4 feet referred to the Puu Aiea Survey and Reference Station;
19. 72° 10.5' 5514 feet along the land of Waika to the Puu Pili triangulation station;
20. 26° 55' 1600 feet down he slope of Puu Pili to a I [bar across top and bottom and through middle] on a stone at the foot of same in the Palapalai ravine;
21. 78° 41' 1097 feet along Waika, the boundary following the middle of said Palapalai ravine;
22. 94° 34' 3706 feet along Waika, to a I [bar across top and bottom and through middle] on stones, the coordinates being South 4487.4 feet East 7471.1 feet referred to the Puu Aiea Survey and Reference Station. The boundary following the middle of said Palapalai ravine;
23. 87° 00' 534 feet along Waika;
24. 88° 38' 1675 feet along Waika to a K and I [bar across top and bottom and through middle] with “Waika” cut in the rock under mound of stones by upper edge of the Waimea-Kohala Government road, the coordinates being South 4555.2 feet East 5264.1 feet referred to the Puu Aiea Survey and Reference Station;
25. 59° 14' 1298 feet along Waika to a I [bar across top and bottom and through middle] cut on boulder by south angle old stone enclosure; [page 163]
26. 78° 47' 1311 feet along Waika to a 5 cut in a rock at a prominent point called “Kalehua,” the coordinates being South 5474.4 feet East 22862.6 feet referred to the Puu Aiea Survey and Reference Station;
27. 63° 30' 5788 feet along Waika to a I [bar across top and bottom and through middle] and [backwards K] under mound of stones on peak called “Keahuokapaakea Iuka;
28. 41° 46' 1467 feet along Waika to a I [bar across top and bottom and through middle] and K under mound of stones on peak called Keahuakapaakukai” the coordinates being South 9953.9 feet West 4902.0 feet referred to the Puu Aiea Survey and Reference Station;
29. 48° 54.5' 5745 feet along Waika to a round hole drilled in a boulder on low knoll called “Ahuanaha,” the coordinates being South 13729.2 feet West 9232.1 feet referred to the Puu Aiea Survey and Reference Station;
30. 49° 20' 9503 feet to a I [bar across top and bottom and through middle] in ancient roadway midway between two mounds of stones on low hill near north edge of Kaiopae gulch;
31. 56° 24' 1658 feet along Waika to a large boulder at the mouth of the Kaiopae gulch; thence to sea shore at high water mark and along said sea shore in all its windings at high water mark to the Huolo gully and up the middle of said gully to the point of beginning, the direct bearing and distance being
32. 140° 31' 1197 feet to the point of beginning.
Containing an area of 5424 Acres
The foregoing notes of survey having been compiled from Boundary certificates 183 and 184 for the lands of Waika and Kahua liilii.
It is therefore adjudged, and I do hereby Certify and decide that the boundaries of said land of Kahua-nui are, and hereafter shall be as hereinbefore set forth.
Given under my hand at Hilo, Island of Hawaii, the 24th day of June, 1905
[No. 190, KahuaNui Ahupuaa, District of South Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, 5424 Acres, 1905]