The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-08

menu minister Damon SAID he WOOlu
lay that since he had been minister
OF fiuance it had at different times
| been puzzle to him to know how
the postal savings bank could owe
the treasury a balance. With the
| auditor general, be had goue over
| the books and come to the conclusion
that the mistake must have been con
necfed with transactions under sec
| tIoD 3 OF the appropriation bill. Il
| shoniI be, be thought, that the trea
sury owed the postal savings bank.
st later period he would bring in
the figures ID show that this amount
was charged TO the postal savings
bank, in the report of the then min
lister of finance to the last Legislature,
when it should have been charged to
section 3. To his mind it was i'm
possible that the postal savings bank
should owe the treasury.
Proceeding, Minister Damon read
the following report from the post
master general, who had just re-
turned from a trip of inspection
around the island of Kauai. He
stated that the postmaster general
would next visit Maui aud Molokai,
and afterwards HAWAII. He also
wished to point ont that while the
postmaster general did not expect TO
fad many errors, his trips were pro
ductive of good to the post office
system in the form Of hints and sug
gestions which will make the service
more efficient
BUREAU OF Gen. PosT OFFICE, !
HAWAII.
Honolulu, Sept. 5th, 1898. J
His Excellency s. VI. DAMON, minis
ter OF finance:
SIR: / have the honor To submit
herewith my report Of tour of the
island of Kauai, made for the purpose
of examining into the postal service,
with II view of increasing, if possible,
its efficiency.
Leaving Honolulu on August 22d, /
landed the following morning at Lii
hue and, continuing my journey,
reached Waimea the same day and
Kekaha on the 24th.
The postal and money order Office
at Kekaha is in the hands OF Mr.. \.
Lindsay, and, after an investigation,
found everything correct and III good
running order.
Instructions were given to the post
master as to the manner in which his
accounts are to be kept in the future.
The rules, etc, of the money order
and postal savings bank department
were explained.
AS all of the mail received here is
generally delivered in an hour or two
after arrival, the postmaster thought
no advantage would be gained by
having lock boxes.
At Waimea the postal and money
order office 8 in charge of Mr.. &. Is.
HOffgaard, and is separated from his
store.
There are forty-six lock boxes, and
for a country office il is well
conducted. His books were correct,
and 1 gave him some instructions as
to handling mail, which will help to
make the service here still more Elf
cient. In addition to delivering the
Waimea mail, this Office dispatches
mails to Kekaba, Mana and Niihau.
The post office at Makaweli, where
there is a fast increasing population,
has Mr.. Hugh Morrison at its head.
He is away on vacation, but during
his absence Mr.. J. a. Palmer makesa
very efficient deputy.
erything here was found in very
satisfactory condition. This Office has
no lock boxes, as they were not con-
sidered necessary.
At Hanapepe the mail is opened
and closed at the residence of Mr.. Ka-
haleale, who is postmaster.
Up to a few months ago the people
in this district had been getting their
mail from the Makaweli office, which
was formerly quite near the Hama
pepe valley, but since that Office has
been removed to The mill site it was
quite distance for them to travel,
hence the establishment of the Hama
pepe office.
MIR. L. Stretz is postmaster at Ko-
loa with postal and money order
office. There are seventy lock boxes.
His accounts were examined and
found in order, and l gave him in
structions as to the running of the
money order and postal savings bank
departments.
The office at Lihue, Mr.. G.. II. Bish-
op, postmaster, is the central office of
the island. Here mails, Immediately
on arrival from Honolulu, are dis
patched TO Kekaha and way ports on
the lee side, and TO Hanalei and way
ports on the windward side.
This undoubtedly is tile principal
office on the island, as the regular
weekly mails from honolulu takes its
departure from here overland TO its
destination.
There are sixty lock boxes in this
office. The kealia Office is at the
plantation office, i'll charge of Mr.. Il.
&. Spalding. 1t is also the delivery
office for Kappa, connected by train.
Everything found in order.
The postal and money order office at
Kilauea is also at the plantation
Office, which is centrally located. 1t
has forty lock boxes. Mr.. II. r. Ewart
is postmaster, and conducts his office
with ability.
The Haualei postal and money order
office is situated in the central part OF
the valley, short distance from the
road.
Mr.. j. NJ. Railway is postmaster,
and he has deputy ut the beach who
receives and delivers the letters for
Waioli and Waipa, the carrier going
on to Lumahai, Wainiha and Haena.
At the latter place lie is met 10y ano-
Their carrier VINO takes the mail to
Kalalau to the school master, Naohe-
nui, who delivers it.
At all the offices visited, l left in
structions aS to the manner of receiv-
ing and dispatching mails, the making
out of money orders and paying of the
same. / called attention particularly
to the rules of the postal savings bank
department, and inquired if any COM
plants had been made.
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