The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-02-21
TEN THOUSAND
CASH FOR KONA
RECEIVER WUNDENBERG TAKES
THE MONEY WITH HIM ON
THE MAUNA LOA.
LABORERs UNPAID AND NOT
EVEN SUPPLIED WITH FOOD
The Receiver Authorized BY the Court
to Borrow 1OOOO-Preliminary Re
ceiver's Report Made.

Fred Wundenberg, the receiver ap-
pointed for the kOna Sugar Company
this morning secured from Judge Hum
phrGys permission to borrow $lO,OUU IOr
the company, taking the cash with nm
to Kona on the Mauna Loa, to be used
at once in paying labOrers and for other
necessary immediate expenses. The
motion was presented to the court by
n. L. Dillon of MagOOn and Dillon, for
the receiver. and all interested gave
consent
with the application for permission
to borrow the money Wundenberg pre-
sented preliminary report as receiver,
and some atidavits showing the imme-
diate need of the cash. Wundenberg
said in his report that the labOrers had
not been paid for several months, and
added: "There is now an actual short
age of food and supplies for the sus-
tenance of such labOrers and employees,
and as a result Of these conditions, 1t
is with the utmost difficulty that the
manager of said Kona Sugar Company
has been able to keep the labOrers on
the place, and at this very time said Ia
bOrers are threatening to desert and
work is practically at standstill on
said plantation"
The plantation is absolutely without
money or credit, said the report, and
needed the $4,000 for the following pur-
poses:
First to buy food and supplies for
the sustenance Of the labOrers and en-
ployes Of said Kona Sugar Company,
Limited.
Second, to purchase and forward by
steamer tomorrow the fittings absolute
ly essential to enable grinding opera
tiOns to commence.
Third, to make some cash payment
to the labOTers to quiet them until your
receiver can examine the property and
lof
upon the general condition of the ar
fairs of the said KOna Sugar Company
Limited"
r. Hawxhurst, Jr., who is superinten-
ding the building Of the Kona Sugar
cOmpany's railroad, also made an af-
fidaVit which was presented to the
court. He stated that the laOrers on
the road were not even supplied with
food and Sustenance anu were threaten
ing wholesale desertiOns. He had re-
CeiVed advices by the last mail which
convinced him that unless the cash
went forward today, there would be
wholesale deSertiOns, to the irreparable
injury OF the planta ion. An attidavit
of j. M. McChesney, to similar effect
was also presented.
The court made an order authorizing
the receiver to borrow 100000 issuing
receivers certificates therefore at a rate
of interest not to exceed per CEN
per annum, the money to be used fOi
the following purposes:
First. For the purchase Of such pip.
ing, fittings, and machinery as may by
said receiver be found to be necessary
and essential to equip the mill Of saiC
Kona Sugar Company, limited, so as
to enable it to take Off the crop now ript
and ready to be ground not to exceed
$1,000 and
THAT balance of said sum of $4,000
to be expended for the payment of skill
ed and unsklled labor now employed a
said plantation such payment to bC
made either in money or in supplies, o.
part money and part supplies, as the
said receiver shall see fit, such paymen
to be only for services rendered and [,
be rendered after the date of the ap
pOintment of the receiver, except a!
said receiver shall find 1t necessary t,
make part payment to said labOreri
for services already performed in orde
to retain said labor upon said plan
tatiOn and in it's employ"
1t is understood that the receiver Sc
cured the money through H. Hackfel1
g. Company.