The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-06-13
MACHINERY fund rs !.
LATEST ON BIG ISLAND
Supervisors Of Hawaii Set Aside
$4,000 to Meet 9 Long ri
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HILO, June 9.-The action of the
board of supervisors at their peeting
last week in regard to the purchasing
of number of automobiles, which
finally resulted in the bringing OF an
injunction to restrain ii from so DOING,
is explained by the supervisors as be.A
ing the result of n carefully considereu
plan to provide the entire county with
a uniform system of road machinery
al present the only districts when
have automobile trucks are Kau, which
has had one for long time; and South
lilo, which has had one for about a
month. This truck has not been paid
for vet but the claim was allowed by
the board lust before the service Of
the injunction last Thursday prevented
the taking of further steps towards tho
completion of the transaction. +.
Machinery Fund.
The supervisors further set aside the
sum of $4,000 for what is now known
as n machinery fund, which will be
used to a great extent for the purchase
of more machines. At matter of fact,
three White auto trucks have already
been ordered from the Volcano Stables
] anu uIc now on tHt way, Whicu WAi pS
paid for out of this fund. In order TO
be within the law the county fathers
have decided to call for bids for White
auto trucks, iustifying their selection
of this make by the statement that they
have tried this make of car and have
found it to be satisfactory. OF the
three new ears one will be given to
Kona, another to Kohala and the third
to Puma. 1t is the intention to provide
an auto truck for Hamakua as soon as
the belt road work in that district has
been completed or possibly even before
that, and North Hilo will be given one,
too, some day. Z.
Would Make Equipment Uniform.
The county fathers explain that they
want to have all the road equipment in
the various districts uniform, SO one
district will be able to lend to the
Others such equipment as 1t does not
use for the moment. Thus if Puma has
a big piece of work on hand requiring
a lot of machinery, and if Kau at that
same time has no particular use for
its machinery, it can lend its equip
mcnt to Puma until the work requir-
ing its use in that district has been
completed. ttf
Another automobile, order which the
supervisors took up was one for q
White touring car, and bids have been
called for for such one. This car
will be bought in the main at the re
quest of Tax Assessor Forrest, wht
states that he needs an automobile In
! order that he may be able to make trips
20 the various outside districts. He
believes that great sums in taxes can bt
; collected in excess of the amount,
which have been collected in the past
particularly on the leeward side of tn,
island, and he has guaranteed TIL
supervisors that if he has the use O
D q machine, he will be able to return il
t value several fold in the increase 4
Y the share of the tax collections whicl
the county will receive. In the mean
S time the supervisors decided that Will
: they We're buying the car, they nigh
$ rs well buy a large one, as they will us
+ it for various county purposes, such 4
T inspection trips and the like, and Will
a the auto will be available for the use
$ of the tax office, it will be genera
county utility car.