Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-03-22
POI
SHOPS AFFECTED

There are fifty-two makers of poi
in this City and County who will be
| affected by the passage of this ord
NANCE" declared Mayor Joseph J.
Fern last night in interposing. an OBJ
lection to hasty consideration of a
measure, introduced before the Board
of Supervisors by City and County
Physician Bruce " Mackall
The proposed regulation is sweep
ing in its several provisions. 1t calls
! for cleanliness in the making of poi
It's adoption would serve to elilrin-
ate a number of oriental establish
ments wherein it is charged that the
proprietors practically ignore all
rules of sanitation and health in the
manufacture Of the staple food for the
Hawaiian.
That there is drastic need of an
ordinance to regulate the cleanliness
and sanitation of local poi factories
is conceded by practically every men,
Der of the Board
The proposed ordinance will be
matter that will receive attention at
the hands of the Board at u special
meeting to be held on next Saturday
night.
1t is freely predicted around the
"city hall" that the poi ordinance
will provoke as much if not greater
storm of opposition than did the now
famous "fy screen" bill which was
finally killed through the paid eff
forts of a galaxy of legal counsel that
had been engaged by the Oriental fish
dealers of the city.
The intimation coming from Mayor
Fern that at least fifty-two poi maxi
ers were vitality interested in the fate
of a measure is looked upon as sig
nificant.
At any rate the measure will re-
ceive consideration by the Committee
on Sanitation and Health between
now and Saturday night. If all goes
well, and series of amendments are
added that meet with the approval of
the health authorities, the measure
will then pass to print 1t was at
the suggestion of Supervisor McClel-
Ian that the poi ordinance was passed
along to the Health Committee.
Supervisors Murray and Dwight
wanted to see it moved along to first
reading, but upon the recommended
ton of Low, who believed that a
number of amendments were needed
to make it an effective law, the pro-
posed ordinance will be framed up
in committee.
According to the opinion expressed
by Supervisor Low, the ordinance as
it reads at present savors of regu-
lation to protect poi trust.
Mayor Fern has suggested that per-
haps combination might be ar
ranged with the fifty or more poi
manufacturers in the city and county
whereby about four central poi fac
tories might be established. BY this
method it was pointed out that the
matter of maintaining the factories on
a sanitary basis would be materially
assisted.
Low took all such arguments to
mean that combination of that ma
ture would be a trust pure and SIM
pie. lie claimed that an organi2a-
ton of poi makers formed along
these lines would work great hard
ship on many taro planters who lived
and farmed at remote places on the
island
Dr. Mackall's proposed poi ordi.
nance by sections reads as follows;
/. No poi shop or shops for the
manufacture of poi or paiai shall be
erected, maintained, used or operated
within the City and County OF lIo-
nolulu except under permit there
fore as hereinafter provided
2. The Treasurer OF the City and