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GRAHAM:Thank you. IBBETSON:All right. SPRINGER:Other Commissioners questions for the applicant? At this time Id like to ask Misters Matsukawa and Kaiawe to come forward please. Commissioners, Mr. Kaiawe is the petitioner for standing in this contested case hearing and Mr. Matsukawa is his representative. Youve both been sworn in. Could you please give us your names and addresses and then whomever is going to speak first please do so. MATSUKAWA:Okay. My name is Mike Matsukawa. My address is 75-5751 Kuakini Highway, Kailua-Kona. SPRINGER:Thank you. KAIAWE:My nameisDean Kaiawe. My address is P.O. Box 762, Captain Cook, Hawaii.MyphysicalisinKaoheIII;theresakuleanawithintheahupuaa. SPRINGER:Thankyouboth.RightnowweneedtoaddressthePetitionfor Standing which is before us from Mr. Kaiawe. Commissioners youve had a chance to review that application do you have any questions for Mr. Kaiawe? Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:I guess my main question for standing would be, how are you related? KAIAWE:Okay. The grantor of this parcel, the cemetery parcel was my great grandmother. Okay in 1915 she had deeded this parcel, which I have a copy of the deed to the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, which todays known as the Hawaii Conference Foundation. Prior to this, this whole ahupuaa and this kuleanas bill was in the family from Kamehameha IV and I have documents that trace back from Kamehameha the IV all the way to my grandfather. What happened was in 1915, I would think before that. There was actually, within this ahupuaa on the point of this ahupuaa was the original church and school site down at the beach. According to my grandmother when the village people moved up to the roadway the school had moved, which is not Alae School and the church had moved to relocate because everybody had moved up. At that time the church had asked my great grandmother for a piece of her property to be used as a church to relocate the church. And thats when we found out these deeds. This is for the cemetery. The church is mauka side of the road and there was about 3 separate deeds that she had given to the Hawaiian Evangelical Association between the years 1905 to 1915. However now this particular parcel is a cemetery where Mikala my great grandmother, her husband and her children are buried, which is located in site B. I was told by my grandma and where this site was located because yeah it was overgrown at one time; there was Christmas berry trees. And when I found out about it my grandma gave me directions to the place and exactly to the foot is where I found it. And so I went down to clear it up to put flowers. And I had written letters to the Hawaii Conference Foundation that because it was neglected, that the family was interested in the Foundation to survey the place so we know what the boundaries are so we could go down and start cleaning it. But nobody responded and at that time, I believe it was in 1990 and it was EXHIBIT E 9