Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-08-02

meeting Tor IL is all on unessential
details"
Kennedy: # think that the rail.
road should build an approach"
Campbell: THAT would be all
right II an approach could be builr
for the same money as at Kahulul.
that was eight hundred dollars.
shall fight for an appropriation to
build this approach in the next legis.
lature."
c. p. Morse of American. Hawaiian
Company said that time was an i'm
portant element In the dispatch of
steamers and that wharf at HilC
would help matters considerably and
he was In favor of It, The wharf
should be under way and the wharf
age and other charges were mere
minor matters.
T. Give Davies said that It was
hard to change from established Gus.
toms TO new ones but now that the
railroad was extended the wharf
should be built at once.
ut isn't question of an approach, a"
said Davies, sit is a question OF light
erage. a question of spending forty
Ave cents a ton lighterage on sugar
while the legislature is considering
| whether wharf or an approach
should be built. The public should
do all possible to reduce the expense
the railroad is going to in order to
build this wharf We want quick
/ building OF this wharf" he conclud.
ed.
Petrles representing the llghterage
interests at Hilo said that he agreed
with Paxton that wharf should be
built but he disagreed with him on
penalties to he imposed on the pub
lie by no wagon approach to the pro
posed wharf He thought that II
would be well II no action was taken
on the matter until the printed form
OF the license in> the bulletin had
reached Hilo and the people there
had a chance to express themselves
on the provisions.
Mr.. Bottomley representing Olaa
Sugar Company said but few words
He expressed the opinion that his
company wanted a wharf at Hilo and
wanted 1t now, II did not care tc
wait for action by the legislature on
the proposition of building one.
This concluded the conference ex
cept a remark by Kennedy on the
4 ..,L..f.uo % .,hioh Camnhall iunnad
like a hungry dog at a bone.
"You object to storage at Hilo," he
said. do you know that the present
congestion on the wharves at Homo
lulu is caused by some of the best
firms In this city. Do you know that
some OF the most responsible firms
here use the wharves for storehouses
and sell their goods from the wharf
There is storage charge here OF
ten cents ton twice the amount
proposed at Hilo, but II Is a volun
tary charge proposed by the import
iers for promotion work"
AS the meeting closed Attorney
Hemenway offered the thanks OF the
gathering to the Governor for his
courtesy In giving hearing to the
question. No decision was announc'
ed by Governor Frear as to what ac
ton would be taken on the franchise
The petition presented by shippers
and ship owners was: 20
4 Honolulu, T. H., July 8, 1910.
Honorable Marston Campbell, Super
intendent of Public Works, Terri
tory of Hawaii.
"Sir:-We, the undersigned ship
pers, shipowners and others directly
interested in the welfare OF the town
of Hilo. Island of Hawaii and in the
establishment at that port of proper
wharf facilities now made possible by
the large expenditure by the federal
government In breakwater construc
ton, do hereby respectfully represent
as follows:
81. That We have read the proposed
license from the Territory OF Hawaii
to the Hilo Railroad Company for the
construction of wharf at said port
Of Hilo, and have examined a plan