The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-06-18
HILO'S SHERIFF
ANSWERS RAPS
Sam Pua Of Hawaii Asks for
Square Deal-Kuhio
After Him.


now played by sheriff Sam pua Of la.
wall county, who after four years of
hard work trying to make police
force out Of the material he has been
afforded, is the object of attacks by tho
strongest political factions in his bain.
wick. As a Republican he can expect
Democratic opposition, although each
time he has run he has received con.
siderable Democratic support.
Now, however, the Kuhio faction of |
the Republican party is trying to knife
him, it is said. To make matters worse,
1t is reported, the board of supervisors
have refused him assistance in the way |
of men and money.
Pua in reply points out that he has
only one captain, one mounted officer
and four policemen to the watch to
cover all of Hilo and waiakea; that
the captain has to serve papers and to !
attend court; that one officer has to at |
tend to the hacks and licensed vehicles |
and one to the duties of the truant officer
five days a week; and that during the
day only one officer is on beat in the
town.
In this reply Pua points out his
men are getting forty and forty-five
dollars month, less than stevedores
ON the DOCKS and declares he has alb
solutely no detective force, so he is
compelled to work mp every case that
goes to court. He also says he has no
automobile to go to other parts of the
island when necessary.
Pua has been having other troubles
! The supervisors, he says, recently even
cut down the small lump sum they gave
him to run his Office with. He turned
this trick, he says, having all the tele.
phones removed with the result that
in short time the appropriation was
again increased.
| After quoting facts and figures to
explain the condition of his depart
ment, Sheriff Pua finished his reply to
| the supervisors in the following words:
Efficiency Problem.
'tI will now discuss the matter of
efficiency. Gentlemen, Resolution No.
| W. winch L nave 10 III bh6
first part of my letter, as the saying
goes, has struck the nail on the head.
sThe keynote or rather the object of the
resolution is to improve and make the
| police department of the district of
| South Hilo efficient, your contention,
of course, being that it is not, to which
/ take exception. / will, however, adj
nit that the police department could
be made more efficient and am glad to
say that the resolution just quoted has
pointed out the means and by whom
such efficiency could be brought about.
Efficiency, | say, can only be had
by paying for it. Take the. county en-
tgineer s office, for instance. When that
office was created you attached to it
a salary whereby efficient men would
be induced to take the office, and you
ald get man whose capability, compe-
itency and efficiency cannot be ques-
toned When he took over the Office
he likewise asked you for an appropri-
Fation with which to hire a capable,
,competent and efficient force of assist
ants. You gave him what he asked for
without any restrictions as to how he
should use it, You put no OBJ
lstacles in his way, and he is
allowed to pay his men whatever he
sees fit. What is the RESULT We
have today a county engineer s de-
apartment that any county, city, Ter
ritory or State in the whole of the
United States would be proud of, and
energy, competency and efficiency rules
supreme. Such is what sufficiency of
funds can do.
'fDid have fair show, gentlemenl
Time and again / have asked you for