In 1938, he retired from the Fifth Circuit Court to practice law on Kaua‘i, Hilo and in Honolulu. Judge Achi was also an enthusiastic supporter of canoe paddling and other sports. He and his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Achi, had four sons and two daughters. One of his sons, Stanford Hokulani Achi (1925-1995), also lived in Governor Kanoa’s house. Like his father, Stanford was active in canoe paddling, having coached the Kauai Canoe Club for 22 years. Pineapple Company Manager Albert Horner
Albert Horner (1891-1964) was born at Kukaiau, Hawai‘i, where his grandfather had started Kukaiau Sugar Co. some years earlier. And Kapa‘a’s Hawaiian Canneries, which Horner managed from 1920 until his retirement in 1953, and which closed in 1962, had been organized by Horner’s father in 1914. Its cannery was located where Pono Kai Resort now stands and its fields extended from Kapahi north to Moloa‘a. It was one of Kaua‘i’s three pineapple plantations, the others being Kauai Pineapple Company of Lawa‘i and Hawaiian Fruit Packers, which operated a cannery on Kawaihau Road. Horner, his wife Phyllis and their three children lived in a beachfront home in Wailua where Lanikai Condominiums was later built. In 1963, their residence served as a setting in the movie “Donovan’s Reef,” filmed on Kaua‘i, starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin. A curious footnote to Horner’s biography occurred in 1950, when The Garden Island newspaper printed his report of seeing a round glowing object racing
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