The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-11
; special to the Advertiser.)


WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 20
Presidential postoffices in Hawaii, of
which there are five, had slight fall
ing off the last fiscal year in the amount
of receipts. The accounts have just,
been made up at the Postoffice Depart
ment, for publication, of the transac-
tions in all the Presidential offices of
the country. This does not include the
so-called fourth class postoffices, the
postmasters for which are named by
the fourth assistant postmaster gen.
pointments are made by the President.
The total gross receipts of the post
offices at Hilo, Honolulu, Lahaina, Lii
hue and Wailuku were SIS. .2sS72 for the
Out OF this money there was paid $500
for salaries of the postmasters, $4,000
for the postmaster at Hilo, $500 for the
salary of the postmaster at Honolulu,
81 200 for the salary of the postmaster
at Lahaina and $1.1OO and $1,000 respec-
lively for the salaries of the postmas-
ters at Lihue and Wailuku. Out of
these gross receipts for last year there
was also paid a total of $36,9s3.27 for
clerk hire in the same five postoffices;
$1,460.04 for rent, light and fuel; $S19.15
for incidental expenses. and $6,4OS.15 for
free delivery, which was expended in
Honolulu. This made the total expenses
of the Presidential offices in Hawaii
4,32o61 and the net revenue $20,96S. IL.
six Presidential offices, some of which
were established that fiscal year, so no
reliable comparison can be instituted.
Kohala was Presidential office for the
fiscal year 1901 but ceased to have that
rank last year. Lihue and Wailuku
were established as Presidential offices
in October, 1901, and for that fiscal
year the records were not complete
However the totals of that previous
year. as returned to the Postoffice De-
partment, were gross receipts of $75,-
$685., out of which was paid S., 800 for
salaries. 29.O0S.64 for clerk hire; $515
for rent. light and fuel $5,771.07 for in
cfdental expenses, $500 for free delivery
in Honolulu. This made a total expense
for these six Presidential offices Of
s44,1slu and a net revenue of $S1,772,
considerably more than for the last f1s-
cal year. when it was, as already stated,
S20.96S.11. The per cent of expense to
gross receipts last year was seventy
two per cent; while the previous year
it was only fifty-eight per cent.
The gross receipts of the postoffice at
Honolulu fell off last year, when they
were s5s.S67.99 as compared with s62,-
sls.lS for the previous year. The clerk
hire in the Honolulu office last year
amounted to $33. 3.660.S0 as compared with
$Ss.s7S.64. Rent, light and fuel in the
Honolulu postoffice last year cost the
government S1119.04, where it was
sssi.lo for the previous year. Other in
eadentai expenses last year were S722,74,
Where the previous year it was 81, ,S25.29.
fhe net revenue of the Honolulu office
tast year was S14,65726 and the total
expenses 5,210.73. The expenses were
seventy-sfx per cent of the gross re-
seipts. The previous fiscal year the ex-
penses of the Honolulu office were fif-
S-slx per cent of the gross receipts.
Fne Hilo postoffice showed an in
crease for the past fiscal year, for the
gross receipts were SS,559.41, as COM
pared with s6.s6S.5S for the previous fs-
cai year. The cost of clerk hire was
szS524T, an increase of S15247 Rent,
hght and fuel cost $S1, but the inciden-
tai expenses amounted to sl3521 The
total expenses last year We're S5,06S 6S /
ana the net revenue S.490.75. The nett
revenue of the Hilo office for the pre-
eeding year was s11373S. The expenses
iast year were fifty-nine per cent of
lhe gross receipts and the previous fs-
oai year they were eighty-four per cent.
At Lahaina the gross receipts last
year were S2,SO4.SS There was no
enarge on the government for rent.
Cierk hire cost $3.50, incidentals, forty
s.snt cents. The total expenses were
s.'SS04S and the net revenue s., ,424. .35.
lne expenses We're forty-nine per cent
OF the gross receipts.
Al Lihue the gross receipts of the