The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-12-03
SupeTviSoF-Elect Wants Citizens
Committee to Help Make
HiIo Beautiful.
10 WORK WITH SUPERVISORS
To Assist and Advise the County
Fathers on All Develop
ment Lines.
(Mail Special to The Advertiser)

Mail Special to The Advertiser)
HILO, November 2S.-The creation
of public Improvement board for the
ltown of Hilo is the latest innovation
which is likely to be instituted when
the coming board of supervisors takes
office. The plan is David Ewaiiko's,
and he hopes that he will be able to
get the other supervisors to kokua it.
John Kealoha, the other Hilo supervi.
sor, has already expressed himself i'll
favor of improvement work, and as the
matter is one which exclusively per-
tains to Hilo, and since it involves no
salary appropriations it is not prob
able that the outside district supervi-
sOrs will object
cit is my idea, as far as I have
worked it out so far, to have public
Improvement board, which will cooper
ate with the supervisors on matters per.
tanning to the improvement of Hilo,
said Ewaliko. 'That is the only way
in which we will ever get the town i'm.
proved as it ought to be. Such a com.
mitTee should consist of FIVE business.
men, or other men who have the well
fare of the city at heart. 1t should be
standing committee which should re-
port at every meeting of the supervi-
sors; so its report would become reg.
ular feature of the meetings. This
would tend to prevent such commit
tees losing interest and dying nat.
ural death.
Knit Community Closer.
"The committee should take up all
matters of public improvement in and
about Hilo, and should make recommen-
dations to the supervisors. This would
tend to bring the business community
into closer touch with the supervisors.
In the past the businessmen have, as a
rule, seldom come into contact with
the county authorities, except when
they had a kick coming. The new
way would bring about better feel
ing"
Ewaliko added that he thought it best
to have all men and no women on the
new committee.
Stricter Accounts.
Another innovation which RwaIiko is
getting ready to place in operation
when he mounts the throne is-a system
of stricter accounts in the matter of
school supplies. Ewaliko states that
for some time past he has been puzzled
at the constantly recurring school sup.
ply acquisitions which kept pifing into
the clerks Office every quarter Some
schools are very economical, he says,
but Others are just the contrary. He
made an examination recently of some
of the demands and found some surpris-
ing things. Thus he cannot see why in
some schools buckets and brooms last
for good long period of time, while in
other institutions of learning buckets
disappear like dew before the sun.
Ewaliko intends to have a strict ac-
count kept of these things, and he has
already asked Supervising Principal
McCluskey to cooperate with him in
this matter, which McCluskey has
promised to do.
"There is no reason why there should
be such a waste in some of the
schools, " SAYS Ewaliko. owe may be
able to save quite an amount by stop
ping up these small leaks. Further
more, as we go along we will surely find
other departments where we may, by
using better and more careful system,
be able to effect economies which in the
aggregate will amount to a good round
sum in a year"