The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-08-13
Gooding Fields Report Shocks tiiIo
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Experts Charges Prove Sensational
Expert Accountant Shows Rufus A. Ll Jr., Is
Apparently Guilty Of MaIfeaSance in Office Says
Secretary Of License Commission Fails to Account
for $2I5l.


GAS Lyman had not kept his prom
Use to me tniturn over the license
looks. sent the deputy county audi
tor to Lyman's house for the same.
Lyman handed him the cash record
questod Captain Fetter, the liquor
the record of,.the licenses issued.
was unsuccessful also Rin this. as Ly.
man informed Fetter that the licenses
not the license book
Blocked in tits Way in his! investiga-
tion Mr.. Field succeeded finally in
securing list of licenses issued, by
courtesy of the Hilo Tribune. "After
checking this list with the names post
ed by Lyman in his cash record book,
found the names of the following
licenses did not appear in his record. -
Some of Those Who Paid.
Then follows the names of those who
secured license and the amount paid
for it. They. include: First class
licenses, S. Kuritani of Honomu, $500;
Santos & Serrao, Wailea, Hilo, $500;
] Second class hotel licenses, Y. Nishi-
motto, Hilo, 1921; Manuel Branco, Lau-
pahoehoe, 1925; Frank Vierra, North
Hilo, 1928; S. Ishikawa, North Hilo,
$125; NJ. Suanaga, North Hilo, $125,
and II. Kubo, South Kona, 1925. There
were also two fourth-class licenses
missing at $3.50 each, total of $2151.
Mr. Field called on Y. Nishimoto to
find out if he had paid his fee of 1921,
and he informed Field that he had
paid, but had not received his license.
1t was on July that Nishimoto had
handed Lyman his check for 1921, of
which $500 was for the fee and $21
for stamps. This check was cashed by
Lyman the same day.
"No entry has been made by Lyman
in the cash record book (also pro.
duced) of the 1921 so collected, nor
has this amount been turned over by
him to the county treasurer, adds the
report.
Mr.. Field s report tells of Liquor Lii
cense Inspector Fetter s trip to verify
licenses issued and that he was unable
to find any of the renewals, which
were excused by Lyman by the asser
tion that they had just been mailed
out. Continuing, the report states:
Accounts Not Audited.
4 cit cannot be ascertained, withou
detailed audit, the exact condition
of the liquor license fund since July j
1911, to date-that is, since the tim,
the account was turned over by tn,
Territory to the County of Hawaii; tn,
territorial audit was made up to jun
80, Notwithstanding the fac
that the county auditor on August
. last certified to the correctness of tn
financial transactions appearing in tn
record of the secretary of the boar
of license commissioners, by the so
called audit previously mentioned.
Here is one instance where Lyman
, received check for 1921 in paymen
. of county license; has the chez
) business methods in the transaction o
, public business. The policy should b
) discontinued wherein there is even til
> appearance of an attempt on the par
of any of our public officials to max
) political capital or private profit out o
!, the public machine.''
( Then again:
. GA great drawback to efficient locf
government is the multiplicity of on