The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-07

all buildings rather than make the
needed repairs as ordered. The tear
ing down of the buildings is to be
started at once.
"A general inspection has been made
of the city, and more particularly so
the .pig-pen districts in the suburbs,
and find that large numbers of pigs
are suffering from various complaints
and disease, caused mainly by being
confined to pens which have cement
floors. which from the continuous
washing and cleaning are generally
cold and damp. Large numbers of
small pigs are annually lost from this
cause alone.
while the cement floors, owing to
the limited ground space of the aver
age pen. is the best means that can
be employed to keep the pens sani-
tary, I would suggest, to better safe
guard the health of the pigs, that the
pigs from each pen be given suit
able run, say fifty feet or more, prop
eriy fenced, out in the open sunshine,
the pigs to be kept on the cement
floors for the night and during time
of feeding only Board floors could
be placed on top of the cement. same
TO be regularly taken up and the
floors cleaned"
The KaliIi Site.
The problem of the Kalihi receiving
station site was next taken up. Presi-
dent Mott-Smith stated that the lease
on the ground would be soon expiring,
and that there were two definite pro-
posals before the Board. He said that
Mr.. Damon was willing to renew the
lease to the Government at liberal
terms, and unless it was renewed the
improvements now on the property
would be lost. He said that he had also
received an offer of a tract of land
in the vicinity from the Kapiolani Es-
tate, but said that the renewal of the
lease was undoubtedly the best thing
that the Government could do under
the circumstances.
.1Mr. Damon will renew the lease for
long period,o said the President,
from thirty to fifty years at an an
nual rental of $40 per acre. |, consider
the sand islands out of the question. y
On the motion of Mr.. Hemenway the
Board gave its formal approval to the
President renewing the lease on the
present site.
President Mott Smith stated to the
Board that new form of vital sta
ristic certificates was being planned
| in conformity with the recommends
! tions of the census bureau, which be
| lieves that all the States and Territories
should have similar form, for tbs
I purpose of simplifying general record
/ ing work.
| The members of the Public Health
| committee of the Board of Supervisor:
were in attendance to secure enlighten
ment ON the question of county respon
| sibility under the new regime estab
lished by the county acts" passes
by the Legislature.
Supervisor Daniel Logan wanted Il
know who was going to pay the in
spectors turned over to the countie
at once. and whose salaries under tn
appropriation bill of 1907 continue a
Territorial servants until June 30tf
the end of the current biennial period
Supervisor Logan wanted to know
these officials were put on the count
payroll Immediately and the balance o
their territorial salaries allowed to tt
vert to the Terrifory's treasury.
President MottSmith gave it as hi
opinion that If was the intention of tn
laws to provide for an immediate tran:
fer of the financial obligation IN que
tion. but admitted that it could be ope
to a different view and said that b
would take it mp later with the Healt
Committee of the Board eff Supervisor