The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-04

print reports either.
Quinn agreed to expunge the offend
ing paragraph, and the report was
adopted.
Troubled Waters on the Oil.
The other discussion of the meeting,
in which Quinn had to stand the com
bined attack of the rest, came over
the question of entering into a con-
tract to buy oil for road work for the
next eighteen months from Captain
Miller, thereby securing a cut from
$1.40 a barrel to $3.50. The Mayor
raised an objection to tying the city
up for that long, the rest agreeing with
him. Fern also suggested that there
might be a better oil than that sup
Piled by Captain Miller. Quinn was
annoyed at the opposition. Aylett NOV
ed his usual motion of referring the
recommendation back to the committee,
while Logan suggested that bids for
supplying oil should be called for.
Kane snorted. He thought that too
much money was being spent on news
paper notices. "Save a dollar on oil
and spend two with the paper" he
said.
bids on postcards them
The Mayors remarks about better
oil for street work was based on an
offer from another firm to supply oil
containing eighty per cent. of asphalt
tum, the oil now used containing only
forty per cent The heavier oil will
spread farther and dry in quicker. This
offer was referred to the committee on
roads.
Other Reports.
! The roads committee submitted re-
ports and recommendations as follows:
That the bridge at the head of Ma
| noa valley is in bad state and must be
repaired at cost of $1,000. That this
work be started first thing next month.
That the Riverside baseball league
| he allowed the use of Aala Park for
Sunday afternoons.
| That. as no one but the Mayor at
tended the public meeting to consider
the Mayors plan of changing the Belt
Road to 60 by way Of the Cap and
| the Ahuimanu road instead of through
| the Heeia rice fields, and as the change
would mean an increased expense of
| $4,000, that the change be not enter
| tanned
That the Ala Moana road in front
of the Marine camp he oiled.
| That the Nuuanu Pail road be oiled
from the forks into town.
That the City Engineer submit more
detailed reports of the cost of road
work and the expense of the upkeep OF
stables. rs
That w. D. McWayne be appointed
| poundkeeper for Wahiawa and that
pound be build on available government
land.
That David Kalapa be appointed
poundkeeper for Koolaupoko, without
pay. 80,
That special appropriation of $500
be made to improve the Paumalu home
stead road.
That the request of the Ahuimanu
Pineapple and Ranch company thai
the road leading from the beach te
Ahuimanu be repaired be complied
with in the early part of the next
semiannual period.
That the offer of lease of the Cum
Minis quarry be not accepted ant
that the City Attorney come to ar
agreement with j. A. Magoon, at
torney for the estate, as to the amoun
of damages done to the Cummins
VI land.
, That $500 be appropriated aftel
July / for the Improvement of thu
Waimanalo road.
That as the report of the April ex
penses of Road Overseer Paele 81!
made up in such a manner that it il
impossible to make head or tail o
it," the same be referred back to hin
/ ito point out which is the head AM
, which the tail.
That the request of the Manoa PEG
pie for three additional arc lights b.
turned down until there is NOR
money in sight.
r Damages Benefit.
l | A request for a settlement for dam
, ages done to the land of the Kapio
, | lani Estate by the road supervise
! was presented Accompanying thi
was a letter from the road supervise
| stating that the removal of rocks ant
dirt on certain corners of the Punch
5 bowl road, as complained about, ha,
|