Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Yes. You folks, your primary point of shipping though, was Kawaihae [Robert Hind’s
Pu‘u Wa‘awa‘a Ranch handled some shipping through Puakö, and had developed the
landing as a part of their failed sugar operation.]
Kawaihae.
Did you run them down, along the old road Or did you run them out across the big
paddock
Down the road, right down.
You would bring them up to like Puhihale, you said
That’s right. You bring them from way up Makahälau, Waiki‘i or Ke‘ämoku. Wherever
they were fattened. Then you’d bring them into Waimea, and there was several fairly
small paddocks, one was called Puhihale and Puhihale also was the corral. They’d be
there, and then usually in the afternoon after lunch, those cattle were taken down the
main highway. Down to… What’s the name of where the holding pens were
The round corral
Wai‘aka side
Below Wai‘aka… [thinking] Pu‘uiki. They were taken to Pu‘uiki and they spent the night
there.
Where the twin round corrals are.
Okay. I’m just going to open up the partner map to this one, real quickly. This is Register
Map No. 2785, and I’m just taking a quick look just to see what I can. Here’s Waimea
town in this vicinity, ‘Huli Paddock, Lälämilo... I’m just trying to see if I can. You said
Pu‘uiki
Pu‘uiki.
Here’s Waiau‘ia. This is roughly...this is the road in the intersection where they...
Uh-hmm.
Right into here, where they cut down. This is the mauka road, and here’s the road that
goes down to Kawaihae.
Kawaihae, yeah. So Pu‘uiki got to be somewhere around in here.
Oh, right here, here you are right there. And you know why they called it Pu‘uiki
Why
Oh no, I see. There was also an L.C.A., a Land Commission Award right there, that had
been awarded to Kaikai [Helu 4199]. This is in Momoualoa and Pauahi. I see so Pu‘uiki
Paddock is right inside there.
They were round corrals.
Corrals, oh.
The reason they made them round, you might want to know this.
Yes.
The cattle they took to Honolulu, to the slaughter houses, if they had any bruising they’d
deduct the price. So the idea was, if you put ‘um in the round corral, there’d be no
corners for them to jam up against.
Wow!
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