The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-08-22
COMMISSION IS
Still SECRETNE
Belt Road Board Takes Action
Behind Closed Doors
Complications.
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lFrom Sundays Adveriissr.
After n star chamber session 60 which
three newspapcmen were denied "a.
emission, the loan commission, Il IL un.
ierstood, decided to advertise for ten
ders for the construction Of the first
eccsiOa Of the belt road on windward
Oahu.
All the information about bids con
domination proceedings for the right Of
way, etc, As mero hcarsay, for no one
outside the members of the commission,
Chairman Andrew Adams, Secretary T.
H. Petrie, Supervisor s. G. Dwight,
Superintendent Of Public Works Camp.
bell and Mayor Fern were present at
the meeting.
No Scribes There.
Both morning and afternoon sessions
were held, but after the newspapermen
we're denied admission in the morning
to see what the commission was going
to do with the peoples money, they
did not try to entcr the sacred portals,
behind which the wise men were gather
ed in the afternoon.
Chairman Adams. when he refused
to let members of the press be present
at the meeting, said it was not star
chamber session, but that the commits
SION worked in private, meaning, per-
haps, that the public had no Business
to know what was going forward about
its funds behind the closed doors.
Like Directors Meeting.
1t isn't q star chamber proceeding.
but we are discussing details" said
Adams; lit is sort of like directors
meeting of a corporation. -
1t is understood that there was some
discussion about having the meetings
public, or at least letting the members
of the press be present, but this was
taken under ADJUSTMENT by the chair
man and secretary who, apparently, be.
lieye in secrecy.
Tenders Soon.
The specifications for first strip Of
road, 10000 feet long, win be placed
before the contractors or the city apon
which to make bids in the near future.
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Also, there has to be right Of way
obtained from the pineapple plantation
for the road where it crosses its land,
the former privilege granted by the
company now being denied.
This matter was supposed to have
been all settled, but now it win be
necessary for tho government to obtain
tins right Of way Through eondemna-
tion proceedings in the courts.
Up 70 Supervisors.
AS to Nuuanu avenue, the commission
kindly and firmly tells tho board of SUI
Pervisors that it will have nothing to
do with this work and it must be done
by the city and county government.
1t was, understood to be all settled
between the two bodies that the com
mission would take over the work of
putting upper Nuuanu into proper
shape where the railroad tracks have
left it almost impossible.
Now that fond hope Of the city faith
ers Is denied and they have to get blsy
and do the work themselves.
1t was decided at a recent meeting
of the board that if the commission
would not undertake this work, that the
whole resources of the board should be
given to the proposition and work on
all other streets stopped until this was
Members Of the board of sIperv sors
seen last evening are wrOth at the ac-
ton of the commission in turning
back the Nuuanu work after it had
agreed to attend to it, and
there is likely to be some strong argu-
nent used at the meeting of the board
night.