The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-11-27
SUPERVISORS IN
REGULAR SESSION
BUSINESS OF THE COUNTY TRANS
ACTED AT THE MEETING HELD
LAST NIGHT.

The meeting Of the County Board of
Supervisors last night was slow and
tedious There was the usual amount
of pickering but most of the matters
of dispute were trivial.
Quite row was kicked up over the
appointment of a successor to fill a $50
road boss job at Koolauloa, made
vacant by the removal of George Ke-
kauoha, a petty politician, who has
figured very prominently in the Fed
eral Courts lately in what was known !
as the Mormon case" and is now
serving four months for adultery.
A number of petitions and applica-
tions for the job were read Andrew |
Adams J. K. Kakiona, John Padaken, |
w. c. Lane and Samuel Lua each hav-
ing a bunch of endorsements. After |
a whole lot of opposition from Harvey, !
it was decided that Supervisor Kealoha
should have the right to suggest the
name of the man to fill the vacancy,
"just as matter of courtesy that
being his district, so Kealoha named
Andrew Adams, manager of Kahuku
plantation.
Harvey didn't like this little bit.
He declared it was taking bread out
of the mouth of some honest, deserving
man, because Adams had agreed to
attend to the job for nothing, Econ
omy in such a matter, he considered
mighty small business. What was $50
per month when it comes to helping
some poor man make living? This
and a lot more like it Harvey dispensed
with reckless extravaganza. 1t made
no difference that the board had de-
cided not to do any active road max
| ing in Koolauloa for a year, only keep
ing up needed repairs, and that the
county has an engineer to look after
large emergency work.
Dwight and Fern sided with Harvey,
| and voted with him when Adams
name finally came to a vote. Cox,
Kealoha and Archer supported Adams,
and Chairman Hustace cast the de-
| Gliding vote with them. Harvey and
Fern both fumed and squared away for
long winded speeches of protest, but
sizzled out like wet fire crackers.
A letter from County Attorney Cath
cart asking that A. M. Brown be given
back pay for the time he served as
prosecuting attorney in the District
Magistrates court prior to his final APP
pointment by the board, kicked up a
fuss, which finally went over till next
meeting. Everybody had a lot to say
on the matter, and did his best to get
it said ahead of everybody else. Cox
thought the County would be sued if
it didn't cough up. Harvey wasn't
afraid. If a man persisted in working
after he had been ordered not to, he
certainly couldn't expect to collect pay
for it. Archer announced that the
Board was not obliged to pay out
money to any old body on demand
The whole thing was finally referred
to the County Attorney to report on
at the next meeting.
Without a formal vote, being taken
on the matter, proposition to in
crease the monthly stipend of the Fire
Department by $275 seemed to have
been tacitly agreed upon, and it was
given preferred place in all of the
long row of estimates and juggling
with the county's finances which took
up a good part of the meeting without
bringing any very definite result. The
proposition seemed to be how to make
100000 per month pay $40, 900 expenses.
This remarkably simple proposition
seemed to cause everybody a great
leal Of figuring. Dwight wanted $15,-
900 for roads and was loath to come
down in his estimate. Hustace sug-
gested that they ride the horse as
long as he'll stand up" and Archer
warned the board that in about two
months we're bust" if we keep on.
A revision of the automobile ordin-
ance came up from a previous meet
ing when one of the supervisors who
has a sixteen year old son, wanted the
age limit for chauffeurs reduced from
seventeen to sixteen years. Hustace
said that some of his automobile
friends thought that if the public is
safe with a sixteen year old boy at the
wheel Of an auto. a fifteen year old
youngster ought to be just about as
good, and he suggested the latter figure
which was adopted.
Eben P. Low, who is the head pro-
moter of the Wild West show to be
held here next month, wanted to bor-
row the fire department to take part in
his parade. Chief Thurston wasn't at
all enthusiastic about such a perform