Waihona Aina

Puunoa 1 Ahupuaa, Lahaina District, Island of Maui, Boundary Commission, Maui, Volume 3, No. 2, pp. 239-254

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 Portions of the Ahupuaa of Puunoa 1, 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 Puunoa 1, 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 8515 to Keoni ana no Gini Lahilahi, The Board of Commissioner to Quiet Land Titles under and by virtue of law did award to Keoni Ana No Gini Lahilahi, the above named land by name only and without survey;

That the outer boundaries of the said land have not [page 240] 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 Keoni ana no Gini Lahilahi and the owner of portions 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 Puunoa 1, Lahaina, Maui, Land Commission Award Number 8515 to Keoni ana no Gini Lahilahi, 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 lands adjoining said portions of the Ahupuaa of Puunoa 1 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 241] of all lands adjoining said portions of the Ahupuaa of Puunoa 1 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 Puunoa 1.
Dated at Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, this 12th day of August, 1926.
Pioneer Mill Company, Limited
By J.M. Dowsett (Signed), Its President
and S.M. LOWREY (Signed) Its Treasurer

Territory of Hawaii City and County of Honolulu.

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"
Descriptions of Portions of the Ahupuaa of Puunoa 1, Lahaina, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, being Land Commission Award Number 8515 to Keoni ana no Gini Lahilahi.

Part 1
On Mauka Side Of Main Street
Beginning at a concrete post marked with a cross on the mauka or east side of Main Street, and on the north boundary of Grant 962 to Puhalahua, the co-ordinates of said concrete post referred to the "Laina" Triangulation Station, being 5192.9 feet South and 5682.2 feet West, and running by true azimuths:

1. 160° 00´ 181 feet along Main Street;
2. 164° 20´ 214 feet along same;
3. 169° 50´ 102 feet along same;
4. 186° 45´ 26 feet along same;
5. 272°00´ 384 feet along Apana 3 or land Commission Award 3702 to D. Malo in Alamihi;
6. 251°20´ 138 feet along same;
7. 242°20' 243.5 feet along same;
8. 294°40´ 562 feet along same;
9. 86°00´ 70 feet along Nakalepo;
10. 43°50' 290 feet along same;
11. 57°50& ....