Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-02
In TER ISLAND
NAY PAY FOR
WHARF Use

The Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company has been given one month
within which to prepare for the Hat
rate charge to be levied upon it by
the harbor commission for the use of
wharyes where freight is loaded and
discharged by means of small boats.
After the first day of November the
company will be asked to pay a
monthly rate of $3.50 for the use Of
such wharyes. If the commission
adopts the present recommendation
of the special committee of that body.
In partial report made by the
committee yesterday afternoon. which
includpts it's letter to the steamship
copss. any, and the latter's aIiswerf, it
las stated that $3.50 had been de-
cided upon as a fair rate, and sug-
gested that it go into effect the first
Of October.
What objections the steamship COM
pany win make to the flat rate charge.
| il any, could not be learned from its
letter to the commission. In so many
words it was stated in the letter that
the company did not wish to express
an opinion on the fairness or unfair
hess OF the charge, but only wished.
al the present time, = ask that the
new charge be not put into effect un-
til November /, that It may have a
month within which, to equalize the
charge between shippers and con-
signees of freight.
Commissioner McCarthy's motion
to meet this request prevailed. The
committee will be given more time to
complete its report, and will confer
with Attorney General w. w Thayer
to be. sure OF their rights under Act
$50, section ia, of the session laws of
1913. under which the committee is
proceeding to Fix the plat rate.
Acting Governor Mott-Smith will be
called on by Chairman Caldwell, and
perhaps other members of the COM
mission, concerning the sale of terri
torial bonds which have been approx
ed by. the governor from authorize
tons by the legislature. The need OF
money by the commission to complete
the Kuhio Bay wharf. particularly.
raised the question Of the bonds yes
tefday
The commissioners, in discussing d
bond sale, gave it as their opinion
that the bonds could be easily dis
posed Of here The commissioners
wish to use whatever money is made
available to them from bond sale
for the completion Of the several
wharf projects now underway.
J. A. Gilman appeared before the
board readyfto make proposition for
the sale Of fire extinguishing appaFa-
tus for the bulkhead wharf He will
confer with the committee which has
st In charge. Mai. ". P. Wooteh,
corps of engineers, reported yester-
day by letter that he had caused a.
careful survey of the Queen Sstreet
bulkhead wharf to be made, where
the Wlhelmina is said to have
touched bottom on September u, and
that he found It was IS to 40 feet at
mean low water.
To do away with the necessity OF
coaling with baskets, q metho dnow
employed by many steamers here,
Chairman Caldwell made 3. recon
mendation to the commissioners yes
terday that patent eoaling elevators
be installed. He pointed out that by
this method the cost Of coaling q
steamship would be reduced to one
half cent ton. The commission viii
discuss it at more lengtht at later
meeting when the proposition has
been-put before them in writing.