The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-09
Bold Stroke Of SIpt. IFGary Of
M0I0kai Settlement.
SECURES POI ENDS DISCONTENT
There We're Prospects of Trouble.
Big Petition-Hea ealth Board VIII
Abate Waikiki NutsanCes.

President Smith said at the Board
of Health meeting yesterday that
superintendent Feary had ably and
with fine courage and judgment dis
posed of a serious situation at the
Molokai settlement At Kalaupapa
there were threats of rioting on ac-
count of the absence of poi from the
menu. 1t is stated that the agitation
against the superintendent and the
authorities was instigated and en-
couraged by Ambrose Hutchinson, an
| superintendent. A committee of
| fifteen called on Mr. Feary and on the
outside threats were made. Feary de-
termined on bold stroke. He took
whaleboat, with two men and went
into valleys some distance away. In
three days he was back with enough
poi for all for a week. Hutchinson
accepted his share, but remarked that
Feary would be dismissed for leaving
the settlement without permission.
The paiai was bought for 80 cents
bundle, the Government to pay the
freight. Feary had the money to pay
cash for the merchandise.
A petition from the settlement asks
that Feary's violation of the rules in
leaving the place without permission,
be overlooked. The petition has over
200 signatures Feary will be retained
and is complimented, with the sug-
gestion that he is not to record the
incident as a precedent
1t is learned that paiai can now be
secured from Wailuku. The present
trouble is lack OF transportation. The
Mokolii is too busy on the direct Mo
Iokai trade. The Lehua is being fit
ed up, but will not be ready for some
time yet. There was offered the sug-
gestion that an Inter-Island boat be
chartered. The Wilder people had sub
mitted the plan of bringing the paiai
to Honolulu on the Claudine and trans
shipping to Molokai per steamer Mo
kOlii.
The Board orders the usual adver-
tisement for tenders for supplies for
the second half of 1898.
There was taken up by the Board |
the complaints of Waikiki residents
on the loud smelling" operations of |
Chinese and Japanese duch ranches
and truck gardeners. 1t is recon-
mended:
That the fertilizer be transported in |
closed containers.
That fresh fertilizer be mixed at
once with new earth.
That water in duck ponds should be
frequently.
That hog ranch apartments" should |
be kept clean.
1t is recommended that an inspec- |
tor look after the parties complained |
of and that the poi makers dumping |
refuse into the sea near Long Branch |
be made to desist. Mr.. Lansing said |
the Board could not perscribe the |
character of buildings to be erected. |
Mr.. Reynolds reported that inspectors
were doing good work and that num-
Der of the nuisances had been abated.
The Chinese have been called to book
on tossing poi slop into the sea.
The report of the sanitary commit
tee was adopted and the executive
officer instructed to put the recon-
mendatiOns into force.
DR.. Day believed regulations should
be adopted that would end the creation
of unhealthy establishments. Dr.
Wood thought the Waikiki road
frontage should be kept free from
duck ana hog ranches. Now the new
Beach road is threatened in the same !
way.
DR.. Emerson recommended, for the !
sanitary committee, that Mrs. Z. /
who is in the kindergarten /
hospital work, be supplied with mate /
rial to the amount of $50. Report |