The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-05-27
FORT STREET
PAVING VETO

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the public finances will admit Of and
that viii gladly cooperate with your
honorable body in any way / properly
can toward bringing about results In
that direction.
~ believe the roads throughout the
island are In better shape today than
ever before and show a judioious ex.
penditure Of public money; therefore at
this time I would call your attention
to the other departments which need
improvements and have been neglected
for the sake of the roads.
"The argument has been raised that
the proposed contract provided for by
this ord nance could be handled by
taking the money necessary from the
Honolulu road department q regular APP
preparation but by so doing the de.
partment work would be so crippled
that not even the necessary upkeep
work would be done but the petitions
from various new communities and
localities where there is very poor,
or no road at all, would be neglected
and disregarded for another six months.
tfI am of the opinion that the prom
ises made to the fire, police and electric
light departments, should he kept in so
far as necessary repairs and removals,
etc. are concerned. If there is any
money over and above our coming ap-
preparation bill.
tFigures from the tax office show
only slight increase so far this year
over the same period last year in taxes
and we are still somewhat in the dark
as to the exact amount the territorial
auditor viii give us, in our July clean
up. Nevertheless it does not look as If
there will be great amount of money
left after taking care of the June bills
which were set over into July in order
to make up the deficit incurred during
the present period.
Basing my objections ON the finan-
cial condition of the city and county
and the promises made to the other de-
partments months before the paving
contract came up, as I said above, l
can not see my way clear to approve
the ordinance. Yours respectfully,
HJOS. J. FERN,
"Mayor,"
After the reading of the veto message
Logan moved that consideration be de
ferred, remarking that action could not
be taken for at least five days and that
thirty days were allowed Mcclellan
seconded, and the motion carried by
unanimous vote.
Aylett brought up the Pacific Heights
proposition. 1t was in the form of q
resolution to accept the offer made by
residents to pay one-third of the cost
of matchmaking the road from the Pa
uoa belt road to Pacific Heights, the
total cost of the -oad to be 81, 400, and
it provided for the appropriation of the
sum of $4,934, from the July Honolulu
road money, for the WORK.
| Kane was quick to object, and to pro
test against the manner in which the
resolution was sprung. He said tina
Aylett mad done the same before,--kep
such propositions secret, in his yes
pocket, and sprung them on the board
Aylett replied that the, road committed
had long ago approved the plan of i'm
proving the road.
Quinn said he was very much sur
Iprised at Aylett's resolution, and yer.
strongly opposed to it. He said tina
Aylett and Others had objected to thu
Fort street paving and had declared
that they wanted to make roads for thu
poor man. GLOW about Pacifi
Heights, - he said, "where only abou
four rich people live' The report o
the road committee favoring improve
ment of this road was in favor of max
} ing the road when we had the money
and we have no money now
AHA said the petition for the Pacifi
Heights road was in long before tn
Fort street bitulithic paving PROPOSE
ton. He said there were twenty-nin
more petitions for road work, and h
proposed to see that they were al
brought up.
Cox thought the city ought to jun
at the proposition when the propert
owners offered to pay third o
the cost, and Mcclellan kokuaed thi
idea. He said that the roads aroun
Diamond Head and up Punchbowl ha
{ been fixed not for the benefit of tn
poor people. Logan agreed with Co
that the offer was bargain. He sal
further that as the board was payin
out money every month for promotio
work, it ought to fix the Pacific Height
4 road. which would be one of the fines
tourist drives in the country.
The resolution was passed by I'll
: votes of AHA, Aylett, Cox, Logan an
Mcclellan, Kane and Quinn voting no
Paele Very Honest.
The old Paele investigation was
last reported on and shelved, the road
land bridges committee making a repo
{ to the effect that Paele was honest, bl
an astonishingly poor bookkeeper. I'll
report was as follows:
) In regard to Paele matter the roc
: Overseer of Koolaupoko district, charl
: being made against the said road owe
Z seer by Mr.. Watson, which was referrt
: to your committee on roads, bridge
!. garbage, parks and public improv
: ments, after investigating same, hol
! ing three meetings, getting eviden,
3 from all sides, Mr. Watson claims Thu
1.-THE city and county owes him $3.50 fl
I work performed as a carpenter. Mr. p
{ ele claimed that he does not owe thu
Q amount. Mr.. Paele claiming that
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