The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-20
AFTER THE
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, Keepers of parks, IS cents.
Insurance, $4,000.
Eva road district, $3.50
County engineer, $3.50.
County attorney, $500.
Road department. $3496.86
Garbage department, s524.25.
TIME WANTED.
The committee appointed to confer
with members of the Legislature with
regard to the band, confessed to not
having got together and asked for fur
Their time.
FIRES.
Fire Chief Thurston reported that
seven alarms of fire had been respond
ed to during February, two of which
were false. Property loss amounted to
s21640. Property at risk was covered
| by insurance for $3.50.
SEWER NEEDED.
/ Ching Lum petitioned that a storm
| sewer opening be put in either at the
/ corner of Kekaulike street and King
| street or at the corner of Maunakea
| and King streets, to carry away the
| storm water which accumulates from
Beretania, Hotel, Pauahi. Kekaulike,
| Maunakea and King streets, for which
there is not adequate outlet. Referred
to Road committee.
QUARRY PRIVILEGES.
communication from Zeno K. N.Y.
ers, secretary for the executors of the
John Ena estate, stated that the estate
was prepared to consider propositions
at once for a lease of quarry privileges.
Filed.
The Board received a communication
from Supt. Holloway asking that the
county grade lots, which are about to
be occupied by Cation e Neil1, and
from which the county has taken with
out expense, a quantity of road-build-
ing material Referred TO Road COM
mittee.
PETITIONS.
Petitions were read asking for repairs |
to the extension of Liliha street and |
the neighboring streets; also asking |
that Kalihi, Queen and Mokauea |
streets, in the Kapolani tract, be &C
cepted as public highways and that
lights be placed on these roads for the
convenience of the public.
A letter was received from the County |
Clerk of Maui asking if arrangements
could be made there to secure the use
of an Oahu county odorless excavator.
Referred to Sanitation and Health /
committee.
ANOTHER REQUEST.
Another petition was read from resi-
dents and taxpayers of Kamoiliili ask
ing for electric lights at the corner of
Beretania and King streets; at the cor.
ner of the lane just below Kamoiliili
oI,1 no Gil ia ia |
street; in the yard fronting the school
house.
ROADS OR COP?
An interesting communication from
was referred to the Road
and Police committees. 1t asked for
the discharge of a useless political po-
Iiceman at Waialua and the application
of his salary to road Improvement. The
policeman has nothing to do and the
roads are bad.
A communication from Samuel John
son, urging that the Allen lake gully
On Wilder avenue be raised to grade,
was referred to the county engineer.
A QUARRY CHANGE. II
A quarry communication was read,
the proposition contained therein ac-
cSpteu anu the COuAttS ATTORNEY was III
structed to draw up ! lease. The let
Ter, which was from Road Overseer
Johnson, urged an arrangement with
he John Ena estate, at $40 per month,
o use the quarry at Kamoiliili instead
IF that at Makiki, the rock from the
after being poor.
A communication from County En-
sineer Gere urged the appointment of
Manager Chalmers, of Waimanaio, to
serve without pay. as road overseer in
lis section. Referred TO the Roads
committee.
AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
At S:45, on the motion of Dwight, 1
he Board went into executive session,
he business, it was generally under
tood being to take some mysterious
elton regarding Sheriff Iaukea's
curse in allowing prisoners to go un-
,uarded in the Judiciary building last
The Board shut itself up for thirty
minutes roasted the sheriff privatim ct
eriatim and finally appointed COM
nittee to investigate the matter and
eport at the next meeting.