The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-10-06
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The Lord Young Company was award
ed the contract for the construction Of
the first section of the belt road at
Heeia by the Oahu loan fund commits
sion at three O'Clock yesterday after.
noon after the commissioners had been
in session less than an hour. The con.
census of opinion about town was that
the commission would show good sense
by rejecting all the bids and issuing
other specifications, but the members
thought otherwise.
For several days the question with
them has been between Lord Young at
$79,7l0 and John Wilson at $79,367,
and yesterday they decided to award
the contract to the higher of the two
low bidders as the "lowest responsible
bidder
Had Legal Opinion.
Among other things which were done
by Chairman Adams yesterday was to
get an opinion from the attorney-gen-
eral as to whether the lowest bid had
to be accepted, and was told that the
tender of the lowest responsible bid
der was the one which should be taken.
Just what happened in the meeting
yesterday afternoon is known only to
those in attendance, but it is known
that the vote on awarding the contract
to Lord-Young was not unanimous
one. After the usual executive session
fOolishness, Chairman Adams of the
board refused to say what the vote
was and Secretary Petrie of the board
declined to show the minutes of the
meeting to representative of The
Advertiser.
Vote Not Unanimous,
Soon after the close of the meeting
Chairman Adams was asked what was
done, and he replied:
"We voted to give the contract to
the Lord-Young Company"
"Was the vote of the board unani-
mOus9'' was asked.
"We voted to give the contract to
the Lord Young Company" was the
reply.
Again he was asked if the vote of
the board was a unanimous one, and
replied with the same phrase.
Down 10 Secretary petrie's office
hiked the scribe and asked that official
if the vote of the board on awarding
the contract was unanimous one.
Petrie thought moment and replied
that he could not say.
Minutes Secret Also.
''Then let me examine the minutes
of the meeting, was the request made.
"I can't let you do that, for the
meeting was behind closed DOORS" he
replied
"'Well, are not the minutes of the
meetings of the loan fund commission
public records, and is not any one who
desires allowed to examine themi -
was the next question.
"'I suppose they will be a public rec.
ord when they are written up and
turned over to the Governor was the
reply. 3" As long as the public was not
admitted to the meeting / don I see
how ! can give out the minutes of the
meeting
"As far as am personally con.
eerned, don't care whether the meet.
ings are open or not and ! had Just as
soon the public would be present he
said.
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