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WONG:I’d also like to put into exhibit the cover sheet of the book, the Volume I and Volume II, which is Exhibit, was that II and III, I believe, yeah, II and III, for the record. It explains everything what he has been talking about in furthering the culture of the estate. FUJIKAWA:Okay, are you done? WONG:Yes. FUJIKAWA:Will the applicant, you want to respond to Mr. Wong? Do you have any questions? NAKAKURA:Yes, I do, sir. Mr. Wong, so your family owned Kohanaiki, the ahupuaa? WONG:Yes. NAKAKURA:Okay. WONG:The dump, the mauka part of Queen Kaahumanu and the makai side of Kaahumanu. NAKAKURA:Okay. But you have sold all of that property except for -? WONG:We haven’t sold any of the properties. NAKAKURA:Okay. VINCENT:The issue, you want me to bring up the other issue? WONG:Yeah. VINCENT:This ahupuaa was, Kohanaiki was all the way up, from the bottom all the way up to the mountain. Now when mother was born, she was raised in that fishing village. Now that fishing village went from all the way down to Honokohau where the dives were. That was all fishing village areas supplying food up mauka. But mother at the time of her birth was called in by her grandpa from Honolulu to come over here; and grandma gave birth and she stayed here. Being the first child of the Hawaiians, the old folks, because of the younger set giving a hard time, they would keep the oldest and trained that oldest. Now my mother went to Kohala seminary; and on this she was trained to be a, what do you say, a guardian or assisted to the Aliis. But as time went by and, you know, we were told not to learn Hawaiian and what not. It was more in English. So after her schooling, somehow or another they went to a dance with my dad where he came back World War I, and they met, and that’s how they got hooked up. And that’s the story of my mother and how she would pass it down to us with grandma. So that area up there, she was in town, she went to Honolulu to get a better life. 17