Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-15
ROADS OF VAlUkU
WILL RECEIVE ATTEN ION
In VERY NEAR FUTURE
MANAGER WELLS MAKES AN APP
PEAL TO SUPERVISORS AND
LEARNS THAT WORK is
TO BEGIN SOON
(Snecial to The Bsulletinl


Waikiki, Maui, July 12.-The Board
.of Supervisors of Maui County is in
session this week. The most important
thing that happened was when Man
ager c. b. Wells of the Wailuku Sugar
Company, who was for many years a
member Of the Waikiki Road Board
during the old times when Wailuku dis
trict and the island in general boosted
of having excellent roads, appeared be-
fore the said board and in the interest
of good roads and with the hope that
his timely words would take effect, sta
ted that during his seventeen years
residence in Wailuku, all the while be-
ing manager of the Waikiki Sugar Co.,
he never saw Waikiki roads in such a
condition as they are today. In an
sWer to Mr.. Wells broad accusation,
County Engineer Hugh Howell stated
that soon after the January storm his
men had been working on the Maalaea
road and during that time two miles
had been completed and the said road
is now in fairly good condition. The
portion of the road from Market street,
Wailuliu, to the Wailuku depot which
is used by heavy drays all day long
and consequently pillars of dust rise
from it to several hundred feet in the
air every day to the great discomfort of
the residents in that neighborhood,
would soon be attended to; and that
the worst road in Waikiki, which is
the Kahului road from the old Waikiki
depot to the slaughter house and along
the beach to Kahului store, would like
wise soon be attended to. The new
rock crusher is ready and will start op-
erations next week, and Mr.. Howell eX-
poets to have the Kahului beach road
IN fine condition and macadamized i'll
four months time. This is good news,
Tor since County government went into
existence three years ago, all the roads
in Maui County have been attended to
excepting those in and around the
County Seat. Mr.. Wells took General
keifer and other members of Congress
20 Waihee while they were here in
May. Owing to the exceptionally bad
which they were riding broke down
and the legislators remarked to Mr..
Wells on the urgent need of having
good roads in Walulu. Fifteen hun
dred~ dollars were spent in Waikiki
district for roads in June, and of this
amount nine hundred were spent on
the Maalaea road. During the past
five months 81, 141.89 were spent on
roads around Waikiki district, $54S5
being for the purchase of new rock
crusher ($2535), gasoline engine ISL
$500, and bin etc, $4,000.
According to Auditor Chas. Wilcox
$62,S24.17 were expended in Maui
County during the past five months,
$36, 461.09 of which went for roads,
viz:
Waikiki District ....$ 11,141S9
Lahalna ............. S,227.1l
east and west. 11,516.40
1dlld =. ................. 3,S4l.41
Moloka1 ............. 1,734.2S
S 36,461 .O9
OF the foregoing amounts $7679.O3
were from road tax money. OF the
81, l41.S9 for Waikiki district, over
was for rock crusher etc, and
he balance on roads outside of Wal
luku town proper, so that nothing
whatever was done to the town roads
since the Inauguration of County gov
In other words Wailuku
roads have been the sufferer and the
Waikiki people the suffering ones dur