Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-10
HEALTH BOARD
ON TRAH OF
CITY MERCHANTS
Sanitation Law Must Be Com
piled With or Licenses Are
Revoked Immediately

The strong arm OF the board of
health Is reaching out to catch the
merchants whose places Of business
are not in sanitary condition
Two licenses were revoked yester.
day afternoon by Col Charles j. Nc
Carthy, acting at the request
OF the board of health, and other mer-
chants probably viii suffer the same
treatment.
The board for the first time is pro-
eeeding under q section of Act so,
passed by the last session of the leg
islathfe, which gives that body the
right to direct the cancellation of
merchants license where the sani-
tary regulations are violated.
Is Acting under the direction OF the
board of health, Col Mccarthy yes.
terday revoked the license of Y0shi-
kishi Hanayama, doing business at
Waipahu, and Correia & Nobriga,
merchants at the same place. They
are forbidden to do business again,
unless given q permit by the board
of health on the Recommendation OF
one of its officers.
Col Mccarthy stated this morning
that this was but the beginning of
Operations under the section referred
to of Act so. .s5s5 ss
Before this law was passed" he
said aafter q merchant got his II.
cense he could let his premises run
down as much as he liked, so far as
his fear of cancellation of the license
was concerned. But now the situa-
ton is different, for under the new
law even after the board has granted
q permit to a merchant for q license,
It stlll has the right to direct the can.
collation. of the license at any time
his place Is found insanitary.
It was with this section of the act
| in mind that lately recommended to
the board Of supervisors that they
allow the fish market merchants to,
Iget their licenses. read the section
to them and pointed out where the
power was given the board of health
to revoke the license ct any time 1t
saw fit.
Il am strongly in favor of the en-.
forcement of this section. With such
law on the books see no good fea.
son why the fish market men should
not be given a license. Let them
have the license and If they don't
keep their place in shape, It can be
sumnlarily cancelled and then they
can't do business.
There Is another reason why the
licenses should be iseVed. The city
and county need the money. Some
time ago estimated that by borrow.
ing $4,000 we would have enough to
tide us over until the next taxes be.
gan to come in But didn't know
when made the estimate that the
supervisors had something like S20,.
900 Of apparatus ordered which must
be paid for
Il figure now that with good luck
/ will be able to get by without Dor.
rowing money; but In order to do
so will have to get in all the mer-
chant licenses. IL the supervisors
don't settle on something soon. l viii
have to get busy There are licenses
due from other merchants. am
warning them that they had better
pay up at once.
The board Of health passed the fol.
lowing resolution for the revocation
of the Yoshikishi license. A similar
one was also passed in the 9TH
,er case:
That the secretary of the board
be instructed to direct the treasurer
of the city and county of Honolulu
to revoke under date of October z,
1913, the license OF roshikishi Hama.
yama, doing business at Waipahu,
city and county of Honolulu, for the
reason that the premises of said Yo-
shikishi Hanayama fail to meet with
the requirements of the regulations
and orders OF the board of health"