The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-17
MoIokai Matters
Before the
Board.
KALAWAO NOT
ABANDONED
Lepers Nay Have Carriage Horses
Insane Kokuas Can Come
TO Honolulu.

nm m OLOKAI matters occupied the
I'VE greater part of the meeting of
Az the Board of Health yesterday
afternoon. There We're present
President Sioggett, Moore. Cooper, Dole,
Isenberg and Fred Smith. with Execr-
tive Officer Pratt, Secretary Charlock
ard superintendent MeVeigh.
The petition from the residents at
Kafawao protesting against their re-
rnovaI to the settlement proper at Ka-
Iaupapa was granted. One hundred and
fourteen iepers Joined in the petition.
which presented the following reasons
against q change.
tabIished at Kalawao.
~ we love the place.
% We are healthy here.
we further petition to have our old
and worn-out buildings reshingled."
superintendent Mcveigh. who was
ter, stated that the only objection to
the KaIawao section was that it had
entailed the employment of two sets of
oficers. but he has since arranged
things SO that no extra force was re-
quired.
Some of the buildings at KalaWao
were also uninhabitable. and he had Sc
cured the removal of the lepers to bet
ter houses. He had also repaired and
shingied the buildings requiring 1t and
he was In favor of allowing the peti-
tioa. This was done with proviso
that In the future no lepers sent from
Honolulu should be allowed to go to-
Ka}awao-
NO AVA LICENSE.
A petition from ]. D. Kahale and M
Hoiopiriai for permission TO sell ava at
the settlement was denied. The petit
ton stated that Treasurer Wright had
refused to grant the necessary license
,,y,t3I n had been given the sanction of
the Board of Health. The following
reasons for favorable action on the part
- the Board of Health were urged In
the petition:
u. Their getting a license for the
sst,;pe of AVA will do away with the
breaking of the Board of Health law
regarding the use of ava at the set
tlenent.
planters by selling their products TO
them. the license holders, as section uS'
ehapter 55. part 4 of the Penal Code
reads: That the selling of ava oy the
ava planters to those not holding IL
cense is tabu.
g. Great numbers of drinkers at the
settlement are anxious to be suppiled
with ava
= 1t Will do away with the mak'rs
OF swipes.
* Ava drinking does not in any
yav raise trouble and disturbance, but
viii keep the peace of the settlement.
% Ava is considered by the Ha-
waiians as medicine, as you will find IN
G;ibson's Health Book"
superintendent McVeigh reported that
ava was being sold in the settlement,
the police being unable TO ferret out tie
Offenders He stated that the liquor
could be found in the homes of the lep-
ers but that vendors always denied
selling it. claiming that they had SIM
ply bought it for the people in whose
hands it had been discovered. The rea-
son that a license was desired, he said.
was because the Illicit sellers were
making a big profit and the petitioners
wanted to come in for a share. i
AS to the medicinal qualities of the
drink. DIR. Sloggett said that he believ-
ed it to be harmful. and DR.. Moore
added that he had heard old settlers
say that ava was responsible IN
measure for leprosy. In any event he
did not think the liquor was at all
beneficial.
NEW HORSES ARE ALLOWED.
A petition from about thirty OF the
residents for permission 10 import
number of good horses into the settle
nent was allowed superintendent Me-
x-a;,-f, in reSnouSe 10 questions, said
that the horses on the place at pres
CONTINUED on Pase 3.