The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-27
LIFE TIME
EXILE ASKED.
Many Would Go
to Molokai to
Stay.
HEALTH BOARD
RULE UNBROKEN
Supply of Paiai for Leper Settle.
ment Still a Vexed and I'm.
settled Question.

the bodrQ OF Health meeting yes
a terday afternoon. Much of the
. business transacted was in denying ap-
plications for permits to go to Molo-
kai. These were from wives and hus-
bands of lepers already at the Settle
ment, or of those who have been con-
demned to exile and are now at the Ka-
Ilihi Receiving Station. Devoted wives
with leprous husbands begged to be
allowed to go to the side of their hus-
bands that they might attend their
wants for the rest of their days. The
| Board denied one and all of the re-
Iquests, even the pathetic appeal of one
IATho said he had nothing in this life to
think of but his wife, a leper at Ka-
llaupapa, and that with the little money
that he had saved there was enough to
keep them both until the end of their
days, without being a charge upon the
government.
The meeting was attended by Presi-
dent Sloggett, DR.. c. B. Cooper, VIM.
Aud, E. A. Mott-Smith, DR.. Moore,
Executive Officer Pratt and Superin-
tendent Reynolds of the Leper Settle
ment.
| DIR. Pratt read list of the names of
fifteen lepers who have been examined
at the Receiving Station and pronounce
| ed lepers. They will be sent to Mo-
lokai at the first opportunity.
| the Leper Settlement was given to A.
w. Carter for Hawaii beef. 1t is pro-
posed to supply cattle for nine months
from October 1, 1901, until June 80, 1902,
delivery at Kawaihae, ninety head
| month, Weighing 300 pounds net when
dressed, for seven cents per pound.
Attorney A. r. Cunha addressed let
ter to the Board in the interest of his
client Ng Fawn, in which a proposition
was made to supply the Leper Settle
ment with taro. His client was in
position to supply paiai for four years
and would furnish a bond in the sum
of $500. He guarantees the paiai will
be the best in the market and bet
ter than that heretofore supplied. The
matter was referred to superintendent
Reynolds.
D. Kapawai had an interesting let
ter before the Board relative to supply
ing paiai. 1t was characteristic of those
sent to the Board of Health 1t read:
Halawa, Molokai, Sept. "a
Last month / have handed in your
hands according to the notice of the
Board of Health in which the secretary
of the Board stated in the newspapers
| that bid of supplying the Leper Set
! Element with paiai, should be placed in
| the office of the secretary During
the second day of last month L hand
ed in a bid of 81 % for 81 pounds. and
81 80 for 25 pounds. From said time
] until today 1 don't know what the
Board did on the bid. We are keeping
our taro for supplying the Leper Set
tlement and if the Board will not take
| our bid we will send our taro to the
! other market and no taro will be sent
to the Settlement without those prices
/ There are plenty of Cinnamon Offering
a price of 49, so for 125 pounds of taro;
| a good price between the poi seller and
the planter; but, according to our bid
we keep our taro low. Now I want
to beg of your kindness to let me
| know about that bid. If we lose that
we will send our taro to Lahaina
Please remember in your mind all
planters who are living in this valley
| Wailau, and Pelekuna, are men and not
boys or fools. I want to do this in n
! gentle manner Very respectfully,
d. KAPAWAI
The missive was referred to Super
intendent Reynolds for report He stat
ed that he had made arrangements for
a supply of paiai at fifty cents, with
freight added, making it cost about
-fifty-sev cents cash. He stated that
the leper planters thought if the Board
was forced to give high prices to out
| side planters they ought to get high
prices too.
Father Matthias asked permission to
visit the Settlement to give consolation
to members of the Catholic faith. He
wished TO go in October and remain
a week. No objection was made.
| D. II. Fftzsimmons asked permission
to go to the Settlement as a kokua to
his leper wife. He stated he had enough
of the worlds goods TO keep them both
and he volunteered to perform work for
the Settlement as we'll He thought of
none but his wife. Objection was made
to the issuing of a. permit on the ground
that if granted the Office would be flood
ed with applications of the same ma
ture Mr.. Reynolds stated that the
mans wife was not in helpless condi-
ton and was not necessarily in need of
assistance of able bodied persons.
/ $. CAMEL of Kalihi asked permits
| sion of the Board to allow Mrs. Paiko
| to go to the Settlement to her husband.
The woman was being kept by his faml-
ly and he was not earning. enough TO
keep her in his home. He stated tie
woman's husband was her only support
| and he was at Kalaupapa unable to do
anything for her. The request was de-
MED. DIR. Cooper suggested that 1t was
matter for the Associated Charities TO
take up.
Mrs. Kaleika wanted to go to Molo-
kai Her husband, leper, had petit
| .;A.oa "a hn,-n her rnnta To him as q