The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-10-09
Superintendent Forbes and Land
Commissioner Tucker Will
Try To Find Relief
NO MONEY IN HAND
. FOR IMPROVEMENTS
Yet SmalI-Farm District Of Hal
ku Needs Good Roads
Desperately

Besides going to Maui to look into
the question Of harhor, wharf and land
ing improvements, Charles r. Forbes,
superintendent Of public works and
chairman Of the harEor commission,
who left Alast night by the steamer
Manoa for Kahnmi. also will look into
the question Of homestead roads at
Fauwola and Kaupakalua, in the big
Maui small farm district Of Haiku.
This will he my first trip to Maui,
and | expect TO find my time pretty
well taken up with the work of my
department., bnt ! hope to devote some
time with Land Commissioner Tucker
in going over the homestead roads Of
tho Haiku district said Mr.. Forbes
yesterday.
While ] have nothing TO do with the
question OF the money necessary to
carry out the road improvements re-
quired, this end of tho proposition be
ing entirely up to the Governor and
the land commissioner, ! hope IL will
be feasible to do all we can for the
relief Of tho Pauwela and Kaupaka,ua
homCsteaders.D
"No Money" Says Tucker
eve haven Z the money; ii y been
spent already said Land Commits
sioner Tucker, when the proposition was
put up to him. &c..
"Those roads up there are in hor
riblo share, all right enough, but with
out funds TO do the work, what, in
the namo of common sense, can we dot
It has rafncd fcarfully over that whole
| h.. al. 80,
| inch of rain daily. The dirt roads re.
Gently completed under contract by the
Maui county supervisors have been
washed away, and today are worse than
ever before. #y ...
"Just to show how things are over
there, look at this and tho commis.
sionor exhibited letter from Worth
20. Aiken, snb-agent of tho land depart
ment at Makawao. D.. ...:, I.
I. E"Bring along your rubber boots, aud
if you have a life proserver handy
bring il, too, y advised Mr. Aiken.
/ wF Farmers Up in Arms g - 'h't'
J The Pauwela and Kaupakalua farm.
ers are up in arms, demanding, pray.
\ ing and begging for passable roads.
While the roads in Makawao and other
portions of the Valley Island are among
1.-THE best in the Territory, the other
extreme is met with in the Haiku small
farm district. The Paia extension OF
the Kahului railroad goes as far as the
big gulch dividing Haiku from the
crest Of the world, y To bring their
| produce to the railroad from the. up
lands about Pauwela and Kaupakalua
is now an utter physical impOssibility
for aerial navigation is an unknown
factor in that section Of the country.
According to Land Commissioner
Tucker, all the money there was il
| the land fund long since has been useC
up, and there is no territorial appro
priation to meet the emergency. Tit
dirt roads recently built in those tive
Maui sections used up all the available
funds for the purpose, and the county
Of Maui finished, the Job, with the I'm
Outstanding that tho Territory shoulC
advance the additional outlay. Evel
this much the Maui supervisors ar,
waiting to get back.
Situation rs Desperate
On the whole, the situation is des
perate one around Haiku, but the su
periutendent Of public works and tn
land commissioner will go over tn
ground tomorrow to see what can u
done. Mr.. Forbes expects to return t
/ Honolulu either tomorrow morning o
, Sunday morning. Land COMMISSIONS
Tucker goes over to Maui by the stcam
or Claudinc this afternoon and may RI
lie main week or ten days on the Islant
e unless his presence in Honolulu shall b
, requircd at the land board mcetin
scheduled for next Thursday here,