PL-REZ-2022-000033 NA ALA HELE COMMENTS 12.14.2022

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JUI-Ub-04 U8:35 From-3rd CIRCUIT COURT KONA MOT3U T-038 P.00Z/003 F-884 TO Irving Kawashima Na Ala Hele Trail Division Dept. Of Land & Natural Resources P.O. Bog 4849 Hilo, HI 96720-0849 FROM Goro Inaba P.O. Box 342 Holualoa, HI 96725 SUBJECT Holualoa Trail Holualoa,HI I was born on November 17, 1916, in Holualoa, Hawaii. As long as I can remember,the Holualoa Trail has been open for public use. As early as 1929, I walked this-grail along with two of my classmates who lived east and west of Hualalai Road. I would meet my friends by walking the upper portion of the trail down to Hualalai Road which intersected the trail. Y would meet my secti n ofriends, the Holualoa Trail fishermen, :md proceed with them,walking the lower below Hual clad Road to Holualoa Beach where we would spend the day at the beach. I remember the trail being marked by rock walls spaced approximately 10 feet apart. The trail was not rocky,but smoother than the surrounding area,there was hardly any vegetation during this time. My friends and I walked this trail barefoot. As I walked, I thought of the Hawaiians of Old and how they must have used this trail to access and farm the fertile land above Hualalai Road. Aside from residents who used the trail as a mauka-makai connector footpath to the Holualoa Beach area, the trail was used by coffee farmers utilizing the now infamous "Kona Nightingale", the donkeys used to haul harvested coffee up and down the mountain. After WWII,the surplus army jeep replaced the donkey and used the Holualoa Trail to haul fertilizer and coffee and perform daily chores for the families of these farmers. My family owned two jeeps and we used this trail to get to Hual alai Road. I purchased a surplus 4x4 3 A ton truck for use on my ranch and parked it on our property just north of the Hualalai Trail. Our jeeps and truck used the trail daily to get to property owned by another member of my family.