The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
The Garden Island says:

The Garden Island Says:
one of the most fragrant examples
of high handed procedure has just come
10 light in the case of a third class
license just isued to a Waimea dealer
AS our readers no doubt will remem-
her. the Garden Island last week had
notice of a couple of suits in the Wal
mea Police Court for violation of fourth
class liquor licenses. One of these
was against the firm for S. Ozaki and
In order to try to save himself the de-
PENDANT telegraphed to his Honolulu
house to have it apply to the Territori-
al Treasurer for another license third
class one, to cover sales such as the
one for which he was then being sued.
So far there is nothing to object to.
The man was in his right to apply for
any kind of a license as long as he
ed by the law and put UP the money
The latter part his representative in
Honolulu no doubt attended to in a
satisfactory manner but the other con-
ditions could not be fulfilled by wire
less.
Section of the new liquor law con-
tains among other things also the pro-
vision that no license shall be issued
ito a person who has been convicted
of viola ting any of the provisions of
this act, or against whom a civil judg-
ment has been rendered under this act.
The applicant was convicted and sem
fenced for violation of the provisions
of the act on the same day he sent in
his application for the third class Ii
cense. The section above quoted also
contains the following paragraph:
Nor shall a license be issued for any
premises without the written consent
of majority of the property holders
within a distance of 1000 feet measur-
ed in a straight line from the nearest
point of the premises for which the
license is asked to the nearest point Of
each of the surrounding properties.
which consent shall be acknowledged
as are deeds when entitled to record
and filed with the application"
That this condition for the granting
of the application was not complied
with is evident from the fact that the
application was made by wireless.
Section eight of the same act pro-
vides that all applications for third
or fourth class license shall be ac-
companied by bond signed by the ap-
pIicant and by not less than two good
and sufficient sureties, to be approved
by the Treasurer of the Territory,
which bond shall go into effect upon
the issuance of the license.
Section eleven reads that mo person
shall be surety of any bond required
by this act unless he is citizen of
the Territory of Hawaii and a resi-
dent and a freeholder in the district
wherein his principal proposes to do
business
These two provisions had at the time
not been complied with.
All these omissions to neglect the
provisions of the law have been COM
mitted by the applicant and he could
therefore not expect anything but a
refusal by the authorities to grant the
license until he has conformed to all
the conditions.
But what are we to think of the
Treasurer of the Territory of Hawaii
posed to uphold, or, if he does, ig-
nores them altogether, and issues Ii
censes right and left without taking
any of the precautions. that the law
specially stipulates that he, and no.
body else, shall see to.
He has issued a fourth class license