The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-19
TO CARRY
OUT IT'S THREAT
Meeting Called to Consider Fish,
market - All Licenses
Are Held Up.

The board of health is taking active
steps to take fshmarket affairs in its
own hands, as II announced it would do
some time ago. The board wants 20
know why if over forty arrests had
been made and conviction secured,
the city ordinance that was intended
to make the ishmarket sanitary was
not inforeedf And why again those
forty cases, eobwebbed and long
forgotten, lie untried in the records of
the~police court while city officials play
battledore and shuttlecock with a
"test" case in higher courtsi,h
A meeting of the hoard was called
for yesterday afternoon to discuss the
situation, which is said to be getting
worse in spite of the assurances of
Fish Inspector Boyd and Supervisor
Kruger that it is model fshmarket.
A. r. Kellar, one of the board mem
beers, who is down from Kauai for
few days, was present as was Acting
Acknowledgement Smith, but the other
members were unable to attend. The
meeting will consequently be held next
week after President Pratt returns
from his coming tour of Maui, although
it was hoped that full board would
consider sthe proposition. Mr.. Kellar
had to return to the garden island yes
terday afternoon.
Attorney General Curious.
The attorney general, who is ex-
oficio member of the board, will at
tempt to find out why the notorious
fishmarket cases are not prosecuted.
The board of health as whole will at
tempt to find out why the clauses about
flies and promiscuous handling are such
a joke in the fishmarket.
Meanwhile all certificates of santa
tion have been withheld from the stall
keepers in the fshmarket and they
have been unable to get their licenses
to do business. They are now running
without licenses, and will shortly, if
they are not. now, be liable to arrest for
that reason.
81 don t see any legal reason why
that test case which / understand is
now before the supreme court, couldu t
have been completed long ago. said
the acting attorney general yesterday
in discussing the matter with President
Pratt and Mr.. Kellar, while waiting for
the other members to appear.
81 do not see why arrests could not
be made every time the law was brok.
en-, whether the test case was decided
or not, - he added, in response to a
question from Doctor Pratt, "although
there would be no use in making ar,
rests if they had failed to secure con
viction, !"
Plans Kept Secret
It was not announced yesterday just
what the board of health intends to dc
to attain the end it desires. With the
weapons it finds in its hands in the o
X. 1t must give to applicants fol-
licenses, it may accomplish all it de
sires without further steps. This ap
pears to be doubted at the board OF
health Office.
''The fshmarket is under the contro
of the city," said Doctor Pratt yester
day. 4" A number of people believe that
board of health inspectors dowr
there are Sinking their duty. Or
the other hand, the inspectors there
are employees of the city and have moth
ing to do with the board. The board
of health's control over the fshmarke
is only such as it has over anything af
fecting the health of the territory. Phi
Keeping of the fshmarket devDlve
uron the city"
,wenty.eight Cinnamon, arrested tw'c'
e,nh seven months ago Tho case
have never come TO trial