The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-10-09
WORKED HARD
AND PLAYED HARD
Delegates Back From Maui With
Record Of Long Forward
Step for Hawaii. r.
LFrom Wednesday Advcrtiser.l

Z .
The Third Annual Civic Convention,
which closed at Wailultu on Monday
near midnight and from which hun
bred and thirty Kauai, Maui and llo-
nolulu delegates returned yesterday
morning, tired but happy, proved to
be gathering of workers who played
hard when they played and who work
ed hard when they worked and who
accomplished much in each endeavor.
In promoting the get together "
spirit, in making friends out of ac.
quaintances and acquaintance out OF
strangers and in bringing the live wires
of the Territory into intimate, touch,
the convention was all that could be
desired by the most enthusiastic, while
in getting the leading men of the ISL
ands into harmony on the need Tor
governmental betterment, for terri
torial progress along the best lines and
for a wiping out of sectional and class
MISUNDERSTANDING the gathering should,
and undoubtedly will, mark a new era
in Hawaiian affairs.
. Roadsl Roadsl Roadsi
Probably the most important and
radical act of the convention was the
| launching Of a movement towards the
| eIimination az partisan and picayune
noIities from the, road departments OF
the various counties. This took the
| form of a resolution recommending the
establishment of a system of terri
| torial roads; to include the main roads
of each island, to be built by the Ter
ritory and turned over to the various
counties under an obligation upon the
superyisors To maintain these roads by
The section overseer system, with the
lciyil service applied to the work of
.lbnildino and maintenance SO far as
practicable. These roads are to be
| bnilt Nv a territorial commission In
each county. the commission to consist
/ 20 tha memhers ~ the various super.
yisor;aI boards with two appointed
Members and the stiperintendent ,,oi
nnhIic works
f' r., ,,rssontin. ,the renort of the hold
oynr COMMITTEES on roads. L. A. Thurs
g. moJa ringiTg sneecb ON the ali
Inc SO% necess;ty re Hawaii of road,
: 900 which bomestenders NAV be abb,
a. oil times IN transnort their producti
: ~ ~ ,norLot Tbe future of homestead
;No 10 bonn5 mn In good roads. he said
"a tho whole sacret Of good roads il
!. aha,S hy tho exnerience of half tn,
;,yiI,zoS void 20 lie in the cantonnie
susta,,, maintenance whereby tn,
rosd i tSant a GOOD road nv never let
80. - stort 70 5eter;orate, ~. -
W" ao,nmittee N daft a hill for pre-
ont,t;am ~ Tho IegisIatnre along tn,
: Tnns - M resolution was named b,
GbaSrr,an II y BALDWIN. as follows
Ia Thnrtton senator Knudsen. Rep
rcsen+atiya Hnd1v George r.. Carte,
+. ond Sanotor pnrb,Ilow -
, Tba absninta necessity for passabI
roads was demonstTated to the dele
, aatcs ~, S,,n5av when they were cart
sd over 4 saction If the least ba,
ro.ds iea5ing ~ tba Haiku pineappl
/ 1onnerv n seetion atonnding in auap
T;rss hun. deen mndholes and fearsom
. nnddIes over which INF for the gen
ero,,s assistance GIVEN nv the Hawai-
; ian Coinmereial which ynpplied graft
|, the services Of forty mules and horse,
! mo Haiku bomestsa ders wonld no
have been able 10 market even In
! nronortion Of their pines thew did. |
i many Instances the pines rotted i
. ar 'eaids Otbors bad 81 ba,l oyVa