The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-08-01
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CFrom Sundays Advertise)
TO FIGHT MOSQUITOES.
The minutes of the preceding meet
ing were read and approved. The chair
called for reports from standing COM
mittees, and Adams, for the committee
on expenditures, reported that the
form for making out the bills has not
been decided on,
Lucas. for the committee on roads ana
bridges, reported that the road to Wa
hiawa was in a bad condition, dust be-
ing very thick.
Adams, for the committee on police,
said he had called on the Sheriff, but
he was absent owing to a recent be-
reavement in his family. A meeting
will be held on Monday.
Moore, for the committee on health
said he had conferred with Sam john
son about removing garbage In the
business section. Garbage was now
removed before a. m Business men
were grateful for this. He stated also
that the Board of Health was DESTROYS
Of furnishing oil to the supervisors TO
lav ON pools of water, and in manholes
and catch basins.
The water department chief said the
water supply had been so short in re-
cent times that it was able TO hush
the sewers but once week. The board
asked If the supervisors could not ap-
propriate n small amount to purchase
oil to put in manholes and other places
where water stood to prevent them
from becoming breeding places Tor
mosquitoes.
The question of bonds was brought
M. and Adams said he saw nothing
on the bonds to show that they had
been issued "in consideration OF any
amount He said that certain insurance
bonds named s25, for example. he
thought it matter for the county at
torney to look into.
Road supervisor Johnson was asked
whether he had a cart and mule which
could be placed at the disposal of the
Board of Health to distribute OIL ana
said he had.
THE wAEIAwA ROAD.
A communication from Jas. A. Lowe
Of the Eva and waianae road board,
told of the bad condition OF the ola
road this side of Wahiawa. They
wanted a special sum OF $4,000 to re-
build the road. The road board was
averse to using $4,000 out of the road
taxes, as the money was needed TO
nav for cantoneers, etc. The entlre
matter should be referred to road
Jury TO determine the damages. A lot
of old correspondence of the time when
the new road was proposed was en-
closed with loves letter, and was
read to the supervisors.
The matter was referred to the COM
mittee on roads and bridges.
Thirty-eight voters of the Eva pre-
cinct asked the board to appoint ]. X.
Luka as road supervisor for Eva.
Other petitioners asked that B. o.
Clark be appointed road overseer for
wahiawa road, where it branches Off
from the main road.
Lucas thought there was a good deal
of sense in the request. The road had
been sadly neglected.
"Take a ride over that road, and
you will never want to go over it
again." said Mr.. Lucas.
Lucas thought special road board
might be appointed for Wahiawa sec
ton
Residents along Sorano road, near
Kuakini street, asked that the road be
repaired.
Adams presented a a resolution, the
object being to continue the depart
teen months as taken over by the terri
u
not the officers, We're meant.
Paele asked for information. He
thought that the resolution implied
that the appropriations made for July
for all these departments were meant
TO cover each of the seventeen sub
sequent months.
Moore asked If the board had the
right to make rules and regulations
governing the various departments. The
chair replied that the law so stated.
The chair said the board, according
10 law, had the power to appropriate
all moneys for the running of the de-
partments, and at what periods II de.
sired. BY appropriating money month
~, the supervisors could keep better
track of the same. The Adams reso-
luton was passed, ayes, / nay
Adams then called attention TO the
request OF Postmaster Pratt, read at
a previous meeting, to have houses in
Kalihi and elsewhere numbered, so that
the free delivery could be extended.
Mr.. Adams said the department of Pub
nc Works had a record OF what had
already been done in the city. which
showed the work had been thoroughly
done. The two men who had done this
work were still available, II could be