The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-07

The last of the difficult preliminary
work Of tho antimosquito campaign
was finished yesterday afternoon by
three o'clock, by which time forty
eight men drawn from among the non
commissioned officers of the army and
navy were hard at work sizing up the
districts which have been allotted to
them to clean within the NEXT ninety
days.
Ii now remains to get the machine
running smoothly; the kind of supplies
needed in each district noted down and
the other details attended to and the
machine will take care Of both itself
and the mosquitoes
The men from the marine camp and
Fort shafter and other organizations
near Honolulu were on hand promptly
yesterday morning at ten o'clock in
the new offices of the citizens' com
mittee in the Judiciary building.
Through hitch in the arrangements
at Leilehua the delegation from that
post did not appear on the morning
train and were afterwards brought in
by special train shortly before two
o'clock. Inside of an hour, they had
been enrolled and commissioned and
had been sent in automobiles to their
respective districts.
Ten OF twelve autos, several of them
supplied by members of the committee,
werer on hand during the day, many
of them, appearing in the. morning, sew
eral hours ahead of the time they had
been called. All were private ears. BY
I'd, twelve O'Clock two Of the "apanas"
or districts had been fully manned with
the 4lieutenants and overseers and all
were on their job. fTS
Arthur Spencer received the appoint
ment as the special lieutenant, who
will. have charge of headquarters
gang, of workmen and who. wiA act,
in away, as Doctor Currie's adjutaht.
Details. Arranged
Owing to the use of the word dis
trict in the plans, the Hawaiian word
term for it, "apana,' has been adopt
ed in respect to the larger districts
into which the city has been divided,
of which there are six
The headquarters of these six will
be at the following points:
Apana No. LAT the Kaimuki
pumping station.
Apana No. oahu College
3 Apana No. 3-The government nurs-
cry.
Apana No. 4.-old Mills Institute,
Chaplain lane.
Apana No. 5.-Bates and Nuuanu
avenue.
Apana No. 6-Ramehameha Schools.
Senator Judd, who was appointed a
committee of one to arrange for dis
trict headquarters, has secured some
of the old election booths for this
purpose. In these the lieutenants will
have their offices and here the district
overseers will report at the close of
every days work, the lieutenants in
turn reporting 10 the central Offices
The rate of wages was yesterday an
nounced as: Special lieutenant, So a
day; district lieutenants, IS day;
district oyerseers, $3.50 a day; labor
ers, $2 a day.
The working day will be nine hours,
but II q job has to be finished and the
time IS not sufficient in which to do It,
there, viii. be Overtime work and no
Overtime pay. <. :
Doctor ourrie Speaks.
L''s The ball was started yesterday by
= eighteen non -eonfmissiuned officers, the
:: dfst TO appear on the, scene, From
fhese, three district lieutenants were
gslected and the balance of the leu
tenants taken from the Leilehua mon
T. in the afternoon. They were lined up,
given their Instructions, signed on the
roll and then Doctor lCurrie made them
short address. After describing
their duties and announcing the routine
of the work, he said:
Nothing, however, will come of the
work unless each one Of you seven
apana or district leaders and each one
Of you forty-eight precinct Oyeraeers
do your full part. II is on you men
that the mccesa or failure Of this work
entirely depends. No plan that We can
outline from this Office, no amount Of
money 20 can spend or lehorerB ON.
ploy win DO OF any use unless you see
that these labofera work and you your.
seiyes seelthat every possible breeding
place Of this mosquito IL found aud
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