The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-07-28
no POLITICS IN
THE ROAD WORK
MURRAY DOTH PROTEST. TOO
MUCH MfssoURfANs WILL
OBSERVE

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Thcro is saying which IL rather
common that "whcrc ihcrc Is smoke
there is sure 20 be FIRE. Following out
that idea, how much FIRE is there around
Supervisor Harry Murray in regard to
emo politics in the road work."
Twice last evening Murray arose and
addressed the members Of the board Of
supervisors and the few spectators pres
ent, telling them that he wanted TO say
again the move to get Wilder out Of the
road department, as supervisor Of the
district of Honolulu, did not mean that
there was to be any politics connected
with the administration of the depart
ment.
Once he told the board this during
the early portion of the meeting and
then again just before adjournment he
told the same thing again, throwing a
sop to Wilder by saying that he had
not the requisite experience for outside
work but he would be good man in
the office of the city engineer.
At the last meeting of the board
Murray got up and solemnly told the
board that the proposed change in the
administration of the roads was not for
political reasons.
So the speeches he made last evening
gave total of three separate occasions
when he emphatically stated the same
thing.
"What's the answeri"
Rather Quiet.
Otherwise than the letter sprung by
the mayor in which he notified the
board of Wilder's resignation, and the
matter of the prisoners wedding the
streets, it was quiet meeting.
City Engineer Gere reported on the
road to the Chinese cemetery in Manoa
which was in bad shape, and said that
it could be fixed for about eight hun
dred dollars if a right of way was OBJ
tanned, and Murray asked that the mat
ter be referred to the road committee
and the engineer for action.
City Engineer Gere in a communities
fion to the board asked for the appoint
ment of an assistant in his Office at a
salary of $175 monthly, and this was
referred to the ways and means com
mittee on motion of Murray.
The matter of loaning the county
road equipment at Koolaupoko to the
contractor who gets the work on the
first section of the belt road was
brought up and referred to the road
committee for report at the next meet
ing,
By loaning this equipment to the
contractor it is hoped to reduce the cost
of building the road, as there would BIZ
nothing done with it during the tim'
the work was being done, anyway.
wilder Resigns.
Road Supervisor Wilder's resigna
ton was presented, effective when hi
successor is appointed, and Murra.
said that he thought Wilder would b.
a good man in City Engineer Gere'
Office, but that he did not believe h
had enough experience for the work h
was on
Mcclellan made the motion for thu
acceptance of the resignation.
Roads Are Bad.
The roads in Kohala are in bad shape
according to report made to tn
board, and Marston Campbell say
there will be twenty prisoners sen
there to work if the city viii furnish
-four mule teams to assist.
An regard to insuring the five auto
mobiles of the city, Supervisor Low
introduced a resolution asking that thi
be done at cost in premiums for tn
year of $191.z5.
There was warm exchange of word
between him and Murray over refer
ring the matter to the ways and mean
committee, this being the action fnall.
taken.
Milverton Gets Pay.
AIilverton s salary, while he was alb
sent in Kona, was allowed, but a reso
luton was introduced to the effect tina
no city employee could hereafter be alb
sent for more than seven days unles
the head of his department notified tn
board of such intended absence.
To get back at Dwight, Supervise
Low asked for report from the roa,
committee on the matter of gas pipe
and water mains in the streets, a mat
ter which was referred to the commit
tee for report.
Dwight replied that he would be i
a position to make a report at the mex
meeting.
Adjournment was taken until 12:li
July 2S, to act on the payroll only.
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