The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-01-24
PROPOSES CHANGE
IN GOVERNMENT
Continued from Page one.)

NSOHJlnueQ from cage One.l
visors, he believes, should be elected
at large as is at present done on Oahu
rather than from ditricts as is done on
the other Islands.
He compares the city to a corporate
body and dwells with emphaais on the
necessity of running it along purely
business lines with the elimination of
the red tape so costly in time, money
and efficiency. He believes that with
the exception of the auditor, whose
office shall be an elective one, all the
heads of departments shall be appoint
ed by the board of supervisors.
The Statement.
"Of course, great many bills on
all sorts of subjects will come before
the legislature,p said the Governor.
Zone of, the most important groups of
bills will doubtless be that relating to
county and city and county government.
That will probably be the case in many
legislatures to come.
1.-THE establishment of local govern
ment is in many respects one of the
most important changes that has taken
place in Hawaii for long time. Hith.
erto it has been in large measure a
question with some as to how far they
could extend county government and
with others how much they could re-
strict it. To some it has been fetish;
to Others bugbear. One thing is GER
tain-it is here to stay.
The question, now at least, what
ever it may have been before, should
be, not how far such government can
be extended or how much it can be
eurbed, but how it may be put on the
best basis; that is, what it should be in
itself in order to be most efficient and
what its relations to the territorial gov.
eminent should be; how it may be per-
fected in itself and coordinated with
the territorial government.
There must be some readiustment
OF functions between the territorial and
county governments and development
within the county governments them.
selves. This win incidentally result in
transferring some powers back to the
Territory and in transferring additional
powers from the Territory to the eoun-
ties, as well as some reorganization and
changes within the counties.
Proposed Changes.
Many changes would naturally oc.
eur to almost anyone who might give
thought to the matter. / viii at this
time suggest only one line of changes
which it might be found advisable to
make, and that relates to the election,
organization and powers of the govern
ing body in each county or city and
county. II is in this respect that the
greatest advances have been made in
recent years on the mainland In the
matter of local government advances
that have proved most remarkable In
the degree In which they have increased
the efficiency of local government.
- In the first place, II Is now an ex-
ploded notion that the larger the num-
Der Of elective officers the greater the
degree OF popular government. Tho old
notion was TO elect as many officers as
possible, ON the idea that thereby tls
people govern themselves; but, rs 3 mat.
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