The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-04-30
OBJECTED TO
QUINN REPORT

iffhW wednesday AnNffiFffN
Supervisor Mcclellan took a firm
stand last night against the badeonne
Tactics Of portion ~ the membership
of The board against Road Ovcrscer
Paele of koolaupoko district aud do
manded that portion Of a report
which oensured PRelc for disbursiug all
the koolauPoko appropriation before
the month was over and which he ~.
serted b. not borne out hy facts. be
stricken out lie stated, and was back.
ed up by the Mayor and Supervisor
Kane, that the money is being spent
on the bugaboo Wniahole bridge re.
pairs, which were not only authorized.
but ordered by the board. and to be
done under the direction Of Engineer
Gere.
Supervisor Quinn. chairman of the
committee which made the report, in
defending his statement, said that IL
was really not intended TO censure Pa
ele SO much as TO serve a. "A warning
TO all road overseers not TO overpay
their appropriation. Mr.. Mcclellan in
timated that this sort of serving notice
on others was poor way of preparing
report and using one overseer as a
scapegoat. The Mayor stated that the
| bridge had cost so far IN materials.
supplies, engines. labor, etc. about
| $1,000. Engineer Gere denied that the
Mayor was making correct statement
and said it was much lower.
The committee s paragraph censuring
Paele was as follows:
"We found that the road overseer
has used all the money allotted to the
district of Koolaupoko for the month
of March; the said road overseer
thought he had about $3.50 on hand.
We think that this is very bad prac-
tise to use up all the money in a few
days; it. is better TO keep working a
whole month and thus prevent the
teams being idle-eating their heads
off for the balance of the month.
The Mayor had a report of expendi-
lures item by item from Paele and
when he endeavored to present it was
headed off from giving the facts to the
board by motion to defer the deci'
sion as to the offending paragraph until
a later meeting, Logan demanding that
| the motion be put, denying a mere
courtesy to the Mayor.
The same committee refused to lei
Pa9le have a telephone, although his
predecessor had one. They said he
didn't need one. The committee, re
ferring again to a Paele communication
to the Mayor, said "We condemn the
practise of sending communications in
regard to road work to the Mayor anC
not to the Board of Supervisors. We
thoroughly understand that every of
ficer of the city and county has right
under the law to notify the Mayor Of
any Irregularities pertaining to city
and county matters, but we submit thai
the road overseer should communicat,
to the board relating to matters tt
roads, etc. -
As matter of fact all expenditure
incurred by Paele for repairing Wal
ahole bridge have been under genera
authorizations of the board which or
dered Gere to plan for the new bridge
and the money had to come out o.
Paele's general Koolaupoko road fund
At one stage of the discussion whicl
was strained at times, Quinn said
"You people are always bringing il
politics. and then the Mayor stoppe'
him and asked him not to mention
politics at all.
Engineer Gere, looking directly a
the Mayor, said there was "wild talk
as to what has been going on at tn
Waiahole bridge, and added "when
statement is made by the Mayor a
he made it and Mcclellan made it, tina
statement is not so.
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