The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-25

/ I. o. Us. But I don't know the par
| ticular settlement. He received the
value of his bill in fun. T Mika owed
| me money or ne would never have as
! signed that warrant to me.
/ Am l right in believing that where
I a warrant was made out TO your order.
it was for money YOU had advanced 60
| Yes. Except in the case of Mr. Oss,
, a carpenter. He asked as a favor if I
would take his warrant and collect it
! for him. He had trouble occasionally
with the auditor. I did lend him SO
once. but it was when he was short
/ and needed it to pay taxes"
Bill dated Oct. SO, 1904, 9949, by Otto
Oss. contract. s73.75. at Waipahu, re-
pairs. At that time the teacher want
ed work done on the cottage. The peo-
PIE were busy on the plantation then
and the teacher came TO Mr. Atkinson
and asked to have it done. Mr. Renton
may have been school agent Mr.
Ahrens took the job and he resigned,
and now Mr.. Geo. Ashley is agent The
Honolulu agent signed it because it
was authorized here.
Miss Dawson was asked the nature
of the contract with Oss making ten
desks for the Lanai school Mr. Gay
had asked for a second school in Lanai.
Mr.. Atkinson ordered her to have the
desks made. They were brought to the
Office where Geo. Shaw may have mark
ed them for shipment to Lanai. 1t
was for SO much per desk
She was asked the difference between
the T. Mii1a case, which was a verbal
agreement" and for Otto Oss this was
not mentioned. Mr.. Oss had agreed at
all times to make desks at 50 each and
three chairs at S1.75 each-one for the
teacher and two for casual visitors. T.
Mika is twenty-five years of age, and
Mika, ST., Miss Dawson said, was over
fifty years. Mil<a, Sr., is a Kamaina,
and was brought up by Mr.. Wilcox on
Kauai. T. Mika was not a general con-
tractor. In many cases she felt it bet
ter to let the work be done by contract,
and other times by verbal agreement.
She had no regular rate for doing
week. She asks for $500 from Mr.. Atkin-
sor. and he says: No: that's too
much" and she then tells the men they
will have to work cheaper, and they
are generally glad to get the work
Going back to the Aki contract, Miss
Dawson said the four men who did the
overtime work We're Kalimahana, MAJ
mana, Opeka and Kihei. Manana was
probably employed as a janitor at this
time. The Aki work was done during
August Manana received $40 for jani-
tor work.
Why it was if the 800 was to be paid
to your men and 800 to Aki the
voucher read $780,
1T was his work. He could have
hired outside men for the work, but
he hired my men instead. 1t was for
them and not for me- 500 for the Ia
Dor of his plumbers and 800 for the
labor of the carpenters"
''Manana received compensation as
janitor and carpenter during that
month";
Yes
who supervised the Ali carpenter
work?"
'Aki, although I was there almost
every day. / saw the men working on
Sundays. The transaction was that
Kalimahana recommended Alzi, and
therefore Aki threw work into Kalima>
hana's hands. 1 knew they agreed
among themselves to do the work for
$780, L also talked with Aki about it.
1 left the hours of their work to their
honesty, as a great many things are
left to our honesty