Hawaii-Honolulu County HI Archives Biographies.....Akina, Ernest A. K. April 11, 1884 - 
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Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV
Author: George F. Nellist (editor)

 Akina, Ernest A. K.: Business Agent, Planter, Legislator.

     Born April 11, 1884, Kohala, son of Goo Chin and Maiaka IKulua) Akina;
married Marie J. Chung Hoou, Honolulu, April 28, 1906; son, Ernest, Jr.; Mason,
Shriner; member Territorial Senate.

     After attending the Kohala government school for five years, Senator Akina
went to Mills School, for Chinese studies, and Fort Street School, for English,
in Honolulu for two years, and finished at Punahou preparatory school and
college, where he took a five-year course, majoring in business practices. For a
year he was with E. O. Hall & Son as office boy, six months with Greenbaum &
Co., and then entered the territorial tax office for three years. In 1906,
following his marriage, he returned to Kohala and joined his father in rice and
cane planting until 1913, when the elder Akina died. Senator Akina now plants
taro and sugar cane, in addition to other interests.

     Senator Akina was road overseer for the Kohala district, in charge of all
government work, 1916 to 1926. He was elected to the Senate of the territorial
Legislature in 1920 and has twice been reelected, his present term expiring in
1932 A fluent speaker in three languages, Chinese, Hawaiian and English, Senator
Akina has often been drafted into service as an interpreter and frequently aided
the Hon. John A. Matthewman, when he was judge of the third circuit court, in
this capacity.

     Senator Akina has been an active Republican leader since 1907, when he was
elected secretary of his precinct club, an office he has occupied ever since. He
has been a delegate to almost all of the county and territorial conventions of
his party and was a member of the Republican central committee for two terms.


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