The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-10

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voted an additional amount of $4,000
for the Nuuanu avenue improvement.
lit was also ordered that the money
should be expended under the direc-
ton of the city and county engineer.
Low, from the ways and means COM
mttee, introduced a resolution, as
Substitute for the one introduced by
Dwight at the previous meeting, to ap.
propriate $25OO out of the permanent
| improvement fund on account Of con-
struction of Nuuanu avenue provided,
if there was not enough money in that
fund, moneys for the purpose should
be borrowed from the general fund.
Murray quoted Engineer Gere as es-
timating that it would take $4,000 20
finish one side of the road. He moved
that $4,000 be inserted in the resolution
instead of $780,
Low sarcastically referred to the lib
crafty he was glad to see Murray
was developing.
Dwight said It would take $1,000 to
complete the job and urged that the
board go ahead and make an end of it.
This was what the community de-
manded.
Mcclellan bewailed the neglect of
other roads on account of the Nuuanu
work All they should attempt vas to
make the road fit for traffic.
Mayor Fern said the job had already
cost $4,000. He was afraid that If
$4,000 was voted the department would
crowd men on the job and thus cause
the money to be wasted.
The amendment carried, Arnold and
, Low voting against it.
Low then moved that the expendi-
ture of the $4,000 be under the direc-
f ton of the engineer. To McClellan's
objection that the duties of the engi-
neer were defined by ordinance, hence
the motion would have no force what
ever Low replied that nobody under
! stood the ordinance. 1t was too vague.
, The motion carried.
. Other Road Matters.
John H. Travis, road supervisor OF
) Eva, reported an expenditure of 81,
4 299.10 on the roads of that district for
December. He said go feet of road
was macadamized during the month al
an average cost of .931c per foot, and
100000 square feet of road was OILED
at an average cost of O022c per square
foot. Five hundred and fifty running
4 feet of road at Waipio was eXcavatet
and refilled at .4OSc per foot.
, Frank Pahai, road supervisor of Koo
laupOko, reported an expenditure o
- $631 O6 on the roads of that distric
y for December.
- Charles B. Wilson, road overseer o
= Honolulu, called attention to the fac
- that the typewriter in HIS Office wa
- becoming old and worn out, and wa
" also of an old model AS the Office ha
~ an unexpended balance of $142O 70
= the month of December OF the genera
. fund, he respectfully requested tina
the board authorize the purchase of
new machine before the auditor close
: his accounts for the period ending De
=. cember 81, 1911.
- Registered Warrants.
- Robert W. Shingle, treasurer, wrot
= advising that he would undertake t
register at his office the, necessar
- warrants soon to be issued by the cit
. and county of Honolulu, and woul
arrange with the various banks of tn
:. city to carry the warrants. For thi
- purpose, he asked for an appropriate
=, of $500 to cover the interest.
:. Low moved that the clerk be il
structed to transmit to the assessor d
the first taxation division of the TER
tory attached estimates of money &c
quired to be raised from the tax pre-
vided for by Act 145 of the Sessio
Laws of 1911. Carried
u The estimates are $4,000 for cul
n rent expenses, $4,000 for permanent
N improvements and $11, 566.O2 for int,
est and sinking fund for city and couI
e ty bonds.
10 Correspondence.
u p II. Burnett wrote about stree
ie signs given to residents of the sectio
bounded by King, Sheridan, Piikoi an
IL Elm streets, on their petition 81
y months ago. The signs were still pile
= up in the road office, and the write
~, asked why.
80 c. H. Dickey, a committee Of tn
W Civic Federation, asked the board if
40 could appropriate $3.50 to pay for eigh
~ fountains at $225O each, to be place
10 respectively ar the Waikiki publ
~ baths, Thomas Square, Emma Square
III Aala Park, executive building grounds
judiciary building grounds, at Alake
no wharf and at Hackfeld wharf. r,
nd ferred to ways and means committe,
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