Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-19 | Page 8 | Oldest Inhabitant of Hawaii Testifies

OLDEST INHABITANT OF HAWAII TESTIFIES HONOLULU. T. H . Fob. IS. Mrs. !' pe Makawalu. 1"C years old. was I tailed upon to testify in a court of law as the "oldest inhabitant of Hawaii' In regard to matters of general know-I know-I ledge In the community long ago. All but erect and only slightly deaf, ' Mrs. Makawalu unable to speak Eng-I Eng-I llsh. told. throuKh an Interpreter, of th days when she was a retainer of Kamaniamatia 111 who became King of Hawaii in March 1 S33 and died 21 years later She had been a chanter 'at the court and said that even When she had attulned the age of BO v us I she walked 17 mile from her home ! to Walmanalo over mountains trail to Honolulu evcrv Sunday In order to , attend ehurch For the benefit f the court she related re-lated occurences during the reign of Kamehameha the Great, who united the archipelago under one rule and became Kamehameha I, through the j year of the other four Kamehainehan land during the das of the Kalakauu dynasty which ended with the declaration declar-ation of (he Reoubllc of Hawaii.