The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-13
LIQUOR MATTERS.

The Board of License Commission
ers yesterday afternoon decided that |
the Thistle Club is liable for a license |
fee for dispensing liquor at the Bob |
by Burns smoker held some weeks |
ago, at which a dollar admission fee
was charged The Club will pay up.
Y. Shimizu, a Japanese was refused
license to run a saloon at Hauula, |
in the pineapple region. j. w. Young, |
who wanted to open a saloon in the u
old site of the Opera Annex on Queen
street, was turned down. Scotty Mes
ton wanted to buy out c. w. Bergin,
of the Waikiki Inn, but the Board de-
! clined to permit the transfer of the
| liquor license A decision was not ar
rived at in the matter of the bar of the
Moana Hotel, being allowed TO remain
open, now that the Hotel has virtually
! closed as a hosiery. 1t will come up
at a later meeting.
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Holt set forth these views, stating that
the Territory had not sufficient force to
collect such delinquent taxes, nor the
funds with which to pay for having it
done. Thereupon the Board of Super
visors unanimously agreed to the com
mission idea, the County Attorney Civ
! ing it as his opinion that the county
could legally make such an agreement
Mr. Campbell states that he was not
| pleased with this arrangement, and
when he heard of it through the papers
he wrote to Collector Holt expressing
his disapproval, inasmuch as it is the
Territory's duty to collect all taxes,
without calling on the Counties to as
sist. He further states that as re-
suit of this arrangement which was put
into force, the keeping of the accounts
became an intricate business and liza
BILE to cause trouble.
Harbottle, after he had been reinstat-
ed was put to work on this commission
basis.
The Treasurer is quoted as follows
In November Harbottle collected
forty-fve personal taxes, yet the
county was charged as though he had
collected 116 personal taxes. His actual
commissions on collections that
month should have Deen-from the Ter
ritory, $40. AS; from the county, $l5 rs
"a total of $50 20.
He was paid, however, from the
Territory, $50 SO; from the county,
$40. Goa total of $7l.49. In other
words, the county, intsead of paying
SIS rs, paid $40. 60, or $24 SO more than
it should, and the Territory, instead
of paying a commission of $40 As paid
$50 SO, leaving 50 56 less than it should
The county is actually out S24.S5 on
this one transaction.
That may have been by error-we
are admitting it was by error-but
nothing has been done toward recti-
flying it so far as the collector is con-
cerned. Harbottle's testimony was
that Holt purposely did it, but we
have nothing to say about that. The
fact is it was not rectifed and | need
not repeat what the Governor has
said to you on this fact"
, On Analysing the statements made by
friends of Harbottle, who seem to have
been very jealous in carrying com
/ plants concerning the tax office, al,
} though they were entirely unconnect'
ed with the office, Mr.. Campbell states
that he discovered that the collectors
reports to his Office had been falsifled
. He said that the deputies had been paiC
, commissions on large number o
3 collections which had been made from
? County employees by heads of the coun
, ty departments, thus making the coun
a ty pay its ten percent for collecting
S money which its own officials had done