The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-07-26

| contract on the kukaiau- Ookala road
is conflicting. Afiidavits have been pub
lished in the local papers of applica-
tions by citizens for work rejected by
Mr.. Whitehouse.
A. Lidgate. chairman of the Hama
kua road board. under date of June IS
wrote to the Superintendent of Public
Works, saying:
| owing to the fact that there are SC
few citizens resident in the section
where the Ookala- kukaiau road is tc
be built, we desire that you grant tc
the contractor permission to emplo,
non-citizen labor, making it a condi-
ton that no able bodied citizen shall be
denied work or job.
THE above shall not be taken &c
mean that the contractor may sublet
| to Asiatics."
Superintendent Holloway, replying
said:
Il have already given my verbal con-
sent to the use of Asiatics on the work
to the contractor, and l hereby ratify
| this agreement, with the understand
ing that all able-bod citizens who
apply shall be given work and that it
is distinctly understood that no sub
contracts shall be let to any non-citi-
zen
Albert Horner, acting for the Ha-
makua road board, investigated the
matter and, in report to Chairman
Lidgate, among other things, said;
II went over on Tuesday. the 18th of
the month, but found that Whitehouse's
foreman had gone into Hilo, so did not
see him, but l was told that he would
be home early Wednesday forenoon. I
then sent word to all the natives living
in that neighborhood that wished to
work on this contract to be at the place
the following day at o'clock to meet
me there, and l would like all of them
that wished to work to make formal
application in my presence. l did not
rely on the message or the afternoon,
but early Wednesday morning sent a
special messenger to tell them Il they
wished to get work on this job to be
there at the time mentioned above.
There was but one native turned up
during the afternoon, he was offered
a job, he accepted, and promised to be
at work on Thursday, but did not snow
up.
THE fact of the matter is, I do not
think any of these natives would work
anyway l have known them for years,
and have known but a few of them
to do any work during this time.
Warehouses; foreman informs me that
he will take on any one that applies
for work and will nav for pick and
shovel work at the rate of from 8 to
PIC. per hour. consider this very
good pay for the classes of work that
is expected of them. Warehouses; fore
man also tod me mat the man that
applied Tor WORK Wheh was there was
the first native although there had
peeh portuguese Z boys ana menu
the poEs pelns at WORK the uay l was
there believe the men mad promised
10 20 10 WORK III rev DAYS. AS THESE
Portuguese are not citizens, and as l
KNOW 'heS are lol soou hien' theS nav
ing been recently discharged IRON ku-
kaiau, ana as Whitehouse Is not uhder
any ophsation TO employ non QUEENS
peleVe 1t indicates that anyone can
get WORK.
one OF the Hllo papers sarcastlcally
comments on the cohdltion OF citiIehs
having 10 Apply TO a japanese foreman
LOT WORK.
ME- Benton Oh benton " Arloii' III
conversation says My plo was ior
citizeh iapor ana that was the hpor
that would nave put on the 1op. Az
present we are using ctlHeh lapor al
most exclusively on the Pahala-NoIca-
no ROAD contract ana ieei sure mat
we coulu nave sot cltlHeh iapor lot the
oohaia ROAD we sot our citizeh lapor
from fahala ana hau o's'rict'
BOARD OF TRADE.
The Board of Trade has recommended
10 Henry T. cooper OF the county bill
commission til"t there pe one county
LOT the lslahu OIL haWali' giving III
detained statement the auVah'ases that
would result from there peihs out one
county
r. hrusheil was selected as SUIT
apie person Ior tlle ne, position OF apprais-
er nor Tue Lana Once LOT TINS oiStIlct'
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