The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-02
SUPERVISORS
TAKE II
EASY
Do Routine Work With
Never a Ripple of
Excitement.

The Board of Supervisors held anoth
er spiritless meeting last night, th'
duIlest routine matters only being
brought forward. The meeting was {
short one as well, the whole session
lasting less than an hour. Supez visor'
Archer Fern and Harvey were asS ent
it being reported that all three are OF
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 ne had
been very much surprised at receiving
them as his department had not order
ed the supplies. Chairman Hustace
examined the documents and announc-
ed that it was up to the Park Com
missioners to pay them.
1--WE have been very good to the COM
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,
cials 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
filling in of the dangerous Punchbowl
ditch is completed, the bridge on the
Manoa road is up and the work at
Kahauiki 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 petftfoned 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,
II 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 couple of slides on the pail road !
and some washouts in other places, but |
The damage was small. The rainy /
weather had brought the macadamiz-
ng to a standstil, however.
Hustace mentioned the fact that one
If the discharged laborers from the
'oad department had written a long
etter TO the board and wanted to know
I the board wanted to hear it read.
ne question of discharging men was
matter for Johnson alone, but if the
'oaro wanted to hear the letter they
night supervisor Cox thought it would
,e a waste of time to listen to 1t and
ne others agreed. The letter was not
cad.
ne next meeting of the board will
e tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock,
men a ten-minute payroll session has
cen called.
ACCOUNTS ALLOWED.
The following routine accounts were
assed:
- 0lIIS IS $500. ..'-''..--S 1zo w
ounty office rent. $50 90