Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-01-03
Kaimuki And Waikiki
Roads To Be
Improved Immediately
SUPERVISORS START new YEAR WELL


lice advertisement for tenders. III
seems to me that the hauling of ma
terial for the purpose of repairing roads
Is just as much a part OF road work"
as the actual laying and rolling Of such
material. In other words the hauling
Of material for road purposes is most
important part of the construction of
roads, for II would be absolutely impos.
sible to construct or repair roads In dis.
tricts where the material is not avail
able, without the hauling of such ma
.erial to the place to be repaired.
81 am therefore of the opinion that
1t would not be necessary for a public
advertisement for tenders to be made
In the present instance before a con.
tract could be entered into between the
County aof Oahu and the Rapid Tran.
sit & Land Co."
What Sam Needs.
! Sam johnson asked that 1895 be ap.
propriated for the garbage and eXcl.
1 walton departments during January.
Action was deferred until appropria.
lions were taken up and then the esti.
mate was approved.
Johnson, as Road Supervisor, also re-
ported on work done on the roads dur
Ing December. He asked $4,000 for
January. Approved later.
Fire Chief Thurston asked 1850 for
January. Approved later He report.
ed five fires during December, property
at risk being insured to the extent OF
s3S,750. Loss and insurance had not
yet been adjusted.
! The Henry Warehouse Trust Co.
sent in binding receipt for $4,000, GOV.
ering Samuel Johnson as Road over.
seer in the employ Of the County, also
bill for SIS, premium from December
30, 1905, to December 81, 1906.
Ala Moana Swamp.
Lucas said the dredger working on
the Alakea slip was making a swamp
Of the land near the Ala Moana road.
The County property was being in
lured. Lucas stopped them pumping
the other night. He moved that the
Board write the Superintendent of
Public Works, urging that the matter
be at once attended to. Carried.
The dredger is working under Fed
eral contract. The Board thought this
no reason for making the u,strict a
swamp. Piping Is laid on the public
road. Lucas said he had spoken to
Lieut.. Slattery about the flooded sec
ton and Slattery had suggested that
u the piping was a nuisance the County
I might remove II.
II ran a bluff on them the other
night" said Lucas, land IL worked.
got a policeman down there and they
stopped pumping for the night. The
place 10 in a terrible condition"
Adams moved that a letter be writ
ten the Public Works to the effect that
the Board OF Supervisors was ready TO
take over the College Hills roads and
alleys. Carried.
Lucas said that President OF the
Board OF Health Pinkham wanted the
County to take care OF horse used In
the mosquito crusade. Referred to the
Sanitation Committee. This horse
hauls the empty cans a. collected.
Lucas explained, and Pinkham thought
the beast might eat with the garbage
department animals.
Archer wanted to know II Pinkham
himself collected the empty cans.
(Laughter)
In regard TO the Supervisors request
that the low lying lands of Kakaako be
summarily acted on, the following note
was read:
. Your communication OF December
22 at hand. The Board would need
specifications In order to comply with
your request. After my conversation
with you ] conferred with Supervisor
John Lucas and later met Mr.. Dodge
of the Bishop Estate, who informed
me that the estate would make arrange.
, manta m All In tho ohiactIonahia araa.