Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-25
HEAVY Rains
ARE WELCOMED
BY MAUI FOLKS
Good Supply on Hand and Wa
ter Famine in Future Not
Feared-NoteS
Especial star-Bullstin Correspondence

/ Especial Star-Bullstin correspondencel
| WAlLUKU, Maui, Aug. 23.-Maui
| las been visited with splendid rains
again this past week so that the Val
/ ley Isle is happy over the prospects
of getting through the summer with
unusually good rainfall, and good
heavy portion of the rain duri1g the
last few days with a result that the
/ Kula roads are in better snaps than
they have been for several years past.
On the homestead road the superyis-
crs have had q gang Of men at work
fer the last few weeks filling in the
bad places and leveling up the road
generally. They had just about fin
| ished their work when the downpour
of Thursday packed the road in fine
shape.
The Kula pipe line has been filling
,1p the new Keokea reservoir and
there are now some 100000 gallons
| in it. 49,
Some $500 900 to 100000 gallons
Of water are being turned one side
at the head of the supply for the Kula
pipe line. This is certainly novel
condition of affairs for the pipe line,
and shows not only that there has
been a splendid supply of water re-
Gently, but also that the new water
head for the Knla region IS abundant
ly able to give Kula the water that Is
needed. Whereas last year the cost
of maintaining this line was between
$500 and 500 a month, the present
cost averages somewhere about $3.50
or $3.50, and the sale of water Is suf-
ficient to meet this outlay. Not only
ere Kula, Ulupalakua and the Kanaio
region now abundantly supplied with.
, splendid mountain water, but Maka-
wac and Paia have a better supply
! than ever before, and the county ia
theirs are hoping to make the water re-
/ sources ever more adequate than
/ they are at present, so that there
viii never again be a water famine
such as Maui experienced last year.
Professor and Mrs. Henry A. Mead
of Chicago, woo have been spending
ten days at the ]. B. Castle mountain
home on Haleakala, returned to Wal
| Iuku today and will leave for Honolulu
soon. They have very much enjoyed
their visit to Maui, in spite of the fact
that they arrived at the Castle house
in a pouring Kona rain.
Rev. John Knox Bodel of Lahafna
is supplying the Church Of the Good
Shepherd every Sunday morning for
the present until the church succeeds
in securing a new pastor from the
coast.
Mrs. Earl G. Bartlett, accompanied
by Mrs. willard and three other lady
/ friends, walked to the summit Of
Haleakala this past week Donald
Brown, son of E. Herrick Brown, act
ed as guide and with a mule packed
the party's provision The weather
was perfect and the Craigielea rest
house is reported to have been very
much cleaned up. at least as far as
the interior of the house is concerned.
Chester Livingston, who with his
family has been on his Haiku home
stead for the summer, returns to
Honolulu this week. He will begin
his duties shortly at the Kamehameha
school.
Rev. A. Craig Bowdish held service
last Sunday afternoon at Haiku.
About fifty people attended. There
was excellent singing and the service
gave promise of large audiences in
the future. 1t is expected that these
services will be held often during the
coming months.
/ -
The new Paia bank Is rapidly near
| ing completion The location Of the
new structure is just below the Maui
/ dry goods branch store and is made
of concrete with large windows and a
good floor space. w. r. Patterson is
putting the finishing touches on the
building in placing the doors and pre-
pairing the building for occupancy.
&