The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-08-01
EWALIkO VISITS
NORTH H|l0
Supervisor Finds Ample Evidence
Of Kealoha's Extrayagant
Administration.

Mail special 10 The Advertiser.)
HibO, July Supervisor David
Ewaiiko returned last week from the
North iiilo district. lie went there to
see how bis brother supervisor John
heaioha, had been running the road de.
pariment in that district. having been
made suspicious through the testimony
given in the Kealoha case by the cley.
or Mr.. Nation. Ewaliko was thor.
oughly disgusted with what he saw.
ana he took no pains to hide his feel.
ings .4...
"Mhy things out there were rot.
Ten, said Ewaliko, frankly, when he
was asked as TO what he had found.
healoha built an entire village ont
there. That is where all the lumber
he ordered went to. The amount of
material ana supplies which ne had
managed to collect together is some.
thing enormous. He has an immense
PIE OF coal, enough TO keep small
steamer gong for year, and Proyid-
once only knows what he intended TO
DO with IT. Then he had as much feed
on hand as big wholesale house. He
mas bought enough TO keep the district
animals fed for "A year. OF course. it
y utterly foolish TO buy feed. except as
you need II from time to time, as il be.
comes mOuldy and loss is suffered
through rats and insects If you store
Feed for long period of time, espec.
Tally IN damp climate.
Then there are tools and maebin.
cry out there in great quantities. which
there viii be no use for for wears 10
come. What his idea was in buying
all these things / don't know. do
know, however, that all Eealoha has
to show for the expenditure of about
sixteen thousand dollars is the repair
ing Of about threc.quarters of mile
OF ROAD, aud that is a pretty poor Job
at that.
1.-The men under KealOha, from his
road overseer, David Nation down.
were all discharged by nle, with the ex.
ceptiOn of the men needed to keep the
animals alive. i notice that most Of
the high-priced men, that IL the ones
whom healoha was paying four and
five dollars day and more, have drift.
ed into HilO. The other day / saw one
Of them, Alfonso Marquee, Kealoha 3
$3.50 machinist, riding about town on
the motorcycle which Kealoha bought
for the county. That was after the
man had been discharged, so / told him
that he had no right to use county
property for his own purposes and that
would have him arrested unless he
turned the wheel back to the county
Immediately.
At present there is no road work
being done in the North lilo district,
and I think it best to leave matters as
they are, rs the next meeting of the
board is not far off ] do not want to
see David Nation reappointed as road
supervisor, for ] saw what kind of a
road man he was from the testimony
which he gave the other day. j have
made inquiries about the district, and
have had man, named Laeha, rec.
commended as being the best man for
the job. He is an Old road worker, who
has a reputation of being an efficient
and honest man. | think | will try to
get him appointed. At the same time
| will have Road Supervisor Joe Vierra
of South Hilo make visits to North
Iiilo about once. a week, in order that
he may superintend the work which is
being done there and tell the road men
there what to do