The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-04-03
SUPERVISORS
I AXE II
EASY
(From Thursdays Advertiser.)


The Board of Supervisors held anoth-
er spiritless meeting last night, the
dullest routine matters only being
brought forward. The meeting was a
short one as well, the Who'll. session
lasting less than an hour. Super visors
Archer, Fern and Harvey were as ent,
it being reported that all three are on
the sick list
The only ripple on the even surface
of things was the presentation of ac-
counts aggregating $3.50 for building
materials for the Kunst park, bills dat
ing back to June last. These were
thrown down on the table by Super
visor Dwight, who said that he had
been very much surprised at receiving
them as his department had not order
ed the supplies. Chairman Hustace
ed that it was up to the Park Com
missioners to pay them.
" Z nave bSSh WI 6OOd " lhC SOiAA-
missioners," explained Hustace, 1--WE
vote them 500 a month and have fur
nished some supplies for the bath
houses when the last Legislature re-
fused to give them anything. They
will have to pay these accounts out
of their allowance and learn to live
within their income. We cannot do
anything more for them
Road Supervisor Johnson reported on
the work of his department in the
various parts of the city. He also re-
ported having conferred with the Off
Gals of the Rapid Transit company re-
garding their share OF the paving work
on Queen street, stating that the COM
pany had passed the matter up to their
solicitor. Johnson stated that the pros
poets for putting in a conduit for the
various sewer, gas, water and telephone
pipes on Queen street did not look very
promising, but hoped to be able to get
the matter settled in some satisfactory
way. The wooden blocks for the work
have been ordered by cable.
Dwight reported the completion of
several important parts of the road
work. The Iwilei road is finished, the
filing in of the dangerous Punchbowl
ditch is completed, the bridge on the
Manoa road is up and the work at
Kahauih is nearing completion and the
road builders would soon be able to
move in at other places shortly. He
stated that he had gone over the piece
of Gulick avenue petitioned about and
ventured the opinion that it was not a
government road at all.
Hustace notified all the heads of de-
partments and the supervisors in
charge of the road work in the county
districts to draw up inventories of all
county property and file them with the
County Clerk. In any future possible
friction with the Territory such lists,
if kept up, would be valuable.
County Engineer Gere reported that
the rain had done no particular dam
age to the country roads. There had
been a couple of slides on the pail road
and some washouts in other places, but
the damage was small. The rainy
"edluE Hdu Drought lHe udCdudIilZ-
ing td&a standstill, however.
Hustace mentioned the fact that one
Of the discharged laborers from the
road department had written a long
letter to the board and wanted to know |
f the bdfrd wanted to hear it read |
The question of discharging men was |
l matter pr Johnson alone, but if the
BOARD wanted to hear the letter they /
night. Supervisor Cox thought it would |
De waste of time to listen to it and |
he others agreed. The letter was not
cad.
The next meeting of the board will
De tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock,
When a ten-minute payroll session has
,een called
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