The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-04
ARGUED OVER A
BACK SALARY

To pay, or not to payl That was
the question, and the members of the
Board of Supervisors wrestled long with
it at their regular meeting last night.
The proposal was to allow the County
Attorney, in communication dated
December l, to nominate ex-Policeman
Townsend to position last August and
to have him paid accordingly at the
rate of sixty dollars month as Jap
anese interpreter in the police court.
Chairman Hustace wanted to pay and
Supervisor Archer kokuaed the desire
in long speech in which moral obi
cations and Sheriff Iaukea Is defections
were blended. Supervisors Harvey and
Cox decided that it was not in the
power of the county to pay an unau-
,, thorized salary of sixty per, but agreed
to compromise on one of forty per.
The discussion back and forth last
ed for over half an hour, Archer max
ing a series of motions on his views
without getting any of them seconded.
Townsend, eventually, was voted $40
for what he had done before December
l, and was formally appointed inter
prefer at the stipulated salary of sixty
dollars, which ought to pay him for
what he has done in the past three
months for the County Attorney, which
is another story.
The reading of two communications,
one from Koolau Chinese and another
from Waialua Hawaiians, showed the
board the patent folly of going ahead
ON verbal agreements instead of secur-
ing signatures in making road building
arrangements. From the San See Tai
company, of Kailua, Koolaupoko, rice
planters, came proposition to lease
the county right-of-way for the road
being built to the Hawaiian Copra Com
pany's plantation for $3.50. The road
is now built up to the Chinese COM
| pany's boundary and had been built
that far on the understanding that the
| Chinese would themselves without cost
| to the county, build the road across
| their land and put in necessary bridge.
| This agreement was made at confer
ence between the County Engineer, Al
| bert Waterhouse and the Chinese. In
| this instance the copra company went
| good for the Chinese and sent letter
to the county agreeing to hold itself
responsible for the building of the road.
| This matter was referred to the Coun-
| ty Attorney.
The other road trouble came from
Waialua, where the county has begun
to cut necessary ditch through private
property. County Engineer Gere ex-
planned that he had conference with
the owners and they aged to the ditch
being cut, it being necessary to save
the road and their property from being
flooded in the wet seasons. Now, how
ever, they are threatening to bring suit
for damages and the county has no writ
ten record for the agreement. The
County Attorney will also look into
this.
The Inter-Island s. N. Company ap-
piled for thirty-year license to oper-
ate their Bishop slip coal loader and
agreed to file bond releasing the coun-
ty from all liability in case of acct
dents arising from the operation of the
loader. The application and bond went
to the County Attorney for scrutiny.
The regular accounts of the month
were passed, as follows:
Koolaupoko road district, $1400.40;
Kailua road $550.50; Leah home $125;
office rent $50; Kapiolani park $780,
II; Koolauloa road district, $1395.50;
Waianae road district, $341; County
Clerk, $40; Auditor, $500; Eva road
: district, $1090.35; coroners' fees, $84 !;
road department, $3046.S5; Garbage de-
partment, $461.75; Waialua road dis
trict $1612.23; Hawaiian band $74.95;
Waialua road district, $500; County At
! torney, $214.25; Koolaupoko road dis
trict, $657.2s.
The next meeting of the board will
be on Friday, December IL.