The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-10-09

anything in the matter, and they recon-
mend that the prayer be denied.
In regard to.water pipes TO KalauPaPa
your committee are agreed that it Is d
necessity. and they therefore recommend
that the Board of Health comply with the
petition.
( Az TO having a steamer run there regu-
larry, Your committee are OF the opinion
that it is in the province OF the Board OF
Health 70 consider and do what is best in
this matter.
In regard 70 the petition that 30 pounds
of paiai be issued each week, your com
mIttee are satisfied that p pounds are
enough il only one person uses the ration,
but il the person who receives the ration
has two or three friends help him eat it,
then il would not be enough. Your com
uittee recommend As a measure OF stop
ping a great amount OF complaint, that
the ration OF paiai be increased TO p
pounds per week.
As to sending DR.. Goto, that is a matter
within the province OF the Board of
Health TO comply with or not. As 10 hav-
ing two butcher shops, your committee are
( Of the opinion that one would serve the
! purpose just as well as two, if it were half
way between the two places, and they
/ therefore recommend that the Board carry
| such plan out.
In regard to the petition that Mr.. Meyers
/ be removed from the office Of Agent of the
/ Board OF Health, your committee are of
/ the opinion that it would be very unwise to
/ do so and appoint some person not nearly
I as we'll qualified in his place. Mr.. Meyers
/ /, man of education, a good business
man, well off, strictly honest and one who
has the confidence of all. He has man
aged the affairs of the Board Of Health at
/ the Settlement with ability, and it would
be a very stupid step to grant the petition
to remove him, and your committee rec
Ommend that the petition be denied.
Your committee recommend that the
ration of bread be increased to nine pounds
per week As to giving each person $40 in
cash instead OF an order on the store, your
committee think the amount asked for ex-
cessive and recommend that the matter be
left with the Board to do what seems best.
Mr.. President, your committee wish here
to express their thanks to the Hons. Ka-
lua, Diclley, Thurston, Pulohau, Richard
son and Haulau for the assistance given by
them to the committee in bringing out the
facts obtained. Your committee also wish
to thank the Hon. Mobiles, Dominis. Cleg-
horn and Martin, Hons. Baker and Brown,
The President of the Board of Health, II.
b. NJ. Commissioner Major WOdehouse
Monsieur Feer, the French Commissioner
for the interest they took in all the inves-
legations made by the committee at Kala-
wac. Your committee are also under great
obligations to w. l.. Wilcox, the interpre-
ter of the House, for the assistance rem
dered by him to the committee, in inter
preting from Hawaiian into English all
that took place at the inquiry, for he ben
eft OF those present who did not under
stand Hawaiian.
After visiting the hospitals and other
buildings, your committee started back to
X alaupapa to hear what complaints the
people there had to make, but finding that
the time was limited, and that 5. B. Ka-
mai represented the people there as well as
at Kalawao, they did not hold any meeting
ut that place. While at Kalaupapa your
committee saw fifty head of good fat cattle
being landed from the Kilauea Hou for the
use OF the lepers.
At l p. m, July 17th, your committee
left Kalaupapa for Honolulu, arriving at
the latter place at p. IN. the same day. |
Your committee wish to return their
hearty thanks to the Hon. s. c. Wilder for
the great kindness extended to the COM /
mittee during the entire trip.
In conclusion, your committee wish to /
state that from all their Investigations |
-, l.,
to the President of the Board of Health in /
any way, and their decision is as follows:
That His Excellency w. NJ. Gibson, |
President OF the Board of Health, is en- !
tirley free from any blame or responsibility
for any of the things complained of. Your
committee do not think the Board of
Health can be held responsible for any of
the acts complained of as having been done
by Mr. Meyers As to those acts your
committee therefore repeat that they find
Mr.. Meyers entirely innocent of any of the
things complained of against him, as agent
of the Board of Health. Your committee
believe the statements of Kiha, HutChin-
son and Father Damien to be the truth,
and discharge them from any blame in the
matter. J. X. KAUNAMANo,
+. K. LILIKALANI,
J. X. NAHALE,
J. 4. KAUKAU.
Mr.. kaulukou moved that the reading of
the English version Of the report be dis
pensed with. The committee, with few
exceptions find everything satisfactory and
that there is no blame attached to the
President of the Board of Health. TAX
ing all things togetherth people are better
off at the settlement than they would be at
their own homes. He moved that the re
port be accepted and the committee dis
charged.
Hon. Mr. Bishop said that the motion
would have come in better il the report
had been understood by those who do not
know Hawaiian. After the committee re-
turned from MoIokai, there seemed to be
particular pains taken by the papers to
bring MS name into prominence. and to do
him injustice. One charge was, that he
had sued lepers for taking wood. His land
did not adjoin the settlement, and there
was no such statement made.
Mr.. Kaulukou said the report did not at
tach any blame TO the Honorable Noble,
Some OF these lepers did say that the cattle
purchased from him were poor.
Hon. Mr.. Bishop said everyone knew