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I’m going to ask you then to turn to 016325, that appears to be an anonymously-prepared <br />document. It’s a format for asking the Planning Commission members to read this <br />checked-off document. And it, in the first paragraph, first full paragraph, it says, <br />“Crematory information.” Says, “When not operated properly, there can be periods of <br />billowy black smoke and the smell of flesh burning.” Well, indeed, I think at Dachau and <br />Buchenwald we had that; but that is not a fact, and it’s not even close to a fact. And if <br />you read further down in this, it says, “I am against a crematory for the following <br />reasons” and they add them all in; but it says on almost the very bottom, “Neighboring <br />businesses and residences will be adversely affected by smoky smell and particles of <br />ash,” and it also talks about “burning flesh” and so forth. So this is clearly designed to <br />inflame and to intimidate anybody who would get this and be asked to sign it. <br />Now having said all of that, I’m going to ask you now if you would look at our Exhibits <br />12, 13 and 14. Mr. Nakakura has claimed that this is the situation at his operation. And <br />my clients took the trouble to talk to the manufacturer of this device and he says, “… if <br />Mr. Nakakura had been having these issues it is quite possible that the in Hawaii HPA”, I <br />presume the public health authority, “would have sited him, we will contact him and see <br />if he wants a recalibration or re-training.” And then in Exhibit 13, we have another letter <br />basically saying, this is another, from the same corporation but “Please be advised B&L <br />Cremation Systems manufactured the Cremation systems located at Cremation Services <br />of West Hawaii, LCC…we have never received any complaints from them in reference to <br />these cremation systems including: smoke, ash or odor.’” And if you’ll take a look at No. <br />14, it says in that particular comment from the manufacturer, “We have over 1000 <br />installations world wide and if our units performed as Shawn said we could not get an <br />environmental permit to operate.” And that goes on. So those are self-explanatory that <br />you have them, but I just point out that we need to talk about facts. And having said that, <br />I’m going to pass the microphone to Mr. Fine and he can tell you some facts which he <br />knows from his own experience. <br />WATANABE:Mr. Fine, would you state your name and address for the record, <br />please? <br />FINE:For the record, my name is Thomas W. Fine, Sr. My address is <br />76-716 Hualalai Road; and I am the owner of the building that is two buildings north of <br />A Hui Hou Funeral Home. And ever since A Hui Hou Funeral Home has been in their <br />site, which is the site of the old 7-Eleven Store, I actually have not even known they were <br />there. I mean, they operate their business and they do not impact me or any of my tenants <br />in any way. <br />As far as the crematory goes, when I heard that they were going to put one in, I was <br />approached by both sides to either be for or against it. And I did not know anything <br />about it, so I did some investigation myself. I did some research. I actually visited <br />Cremation Services. Shawn asked me to come up and see what he did up there and see <br />what kind of environmental impact there was. And by viewing that I developed a list of <br />questions; and I called the manufacturer of the equipment that A Hui Hou was going to <br />buy from and explained to them who I was. And I talked to Michael Burwell who was <br />EXHIBIT D <br />4 <br /> <br />