The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-07-02
EMUN|C|PAlMONEYlH
! CHEST IS Bullying
WTHL|CENsECO|N
Ninety-tWo Hundred Dollars Swell
Treasury As Result Of First
Days Business
BREAKS ALL RECORDS
OF PREVIOUS YEARS
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City Treasurer ConkIing Esti-
mates That Total Collections
81. Will Reach $4,000

Municipal money Golfers bulged TO
the extent of $4,000 when City Treas
urer Gonkling closed his office last
night. This represents the money col
lected by the Office yesterday for city
licenses. Incidentally, the figures smash
all records for first day collections.
Last year. the fist day receipts were
about $4,000 and in the preceding two
years were a trihe less than that sum.
COnkling stated last night that he ex.
pected the Office to collect fully 500.
900 in the next ten days and that the
receipts for the coming year from ii.
censes would be from $4,000 to
$l20, 900.
Line Was Continuous
When the offices were opened yester.
day morning line of license applicants
WAS waiting at the door. From that
time until the offices closed at four
o clock the line remained continuous
and Clerks Rose and Rosa were kent
busy at the receiving wickets taking
in ducats and issuing little slips OF
paper which gave privilege to con,
tinue in business.
Applicants for licenses were big and
little and all were handled with the,
same despatch. Representatives Of four
different banks stepped forward with
their contributions Of $3.50 each to con .
duet their business. An ava dealer
PUNCHED up his 5000. Hack drivers
stood patiently in line to deposit their
big silver dollar for the good of the
cause.
Period Is Ten Days
When closing time came long line
was still waiting. They can return
today or in several days to come, as
Treasurer Conkling says he will keep
his offices open for license issuing for
ten days. The Office hours will he from
eight thirty O'Clock in the mornin
until four clock in the afternoon.
COnkling pointed out last night that
applicants could greatly facilitate the
work if they would observe two strin-
gent regulations. The first is that the
applicant must present an, accounting.
of gross receipts of, his business for
the year ending June 30, 1916 The
second is that he must present Ger
tifcate from the tax Office showing that
his taxes are paid up to June 80.
Credit Goes to Clerks
1--WE were well pleased with the
collections today and naturally were
gratifed that all first day records were
broken,' Conkling added. Rose and
Rosa must be given credit for the way
they handled the continuous line Of
applicants. Everything went along
without a hitch. We have been aided
materially by the cooperation of the
board of health. 1t is mandatory that
every applicant for a license must also
have a certificate showing that his
place of business is sanitary and
healthy and the board prepared for this
admirably and to great assistance to
u.s."
There were several surprises when
renewals of licenses were asked for. For
instance, a lodging house keeper who
retofOre has only paid two dollars and
a half a year for the privilege of con
Quoting his house nearly tainted when
he was Informed that the tax for the
coming year would be fifty dollars. 1t
was explained to him that the law
now says that keepers of lodging
houses with ten or more rooms are now
designated as hotel keepers and that
fftv dollars was now the license ex-
actment. The lodging house keeper
listened, handed out fifty dollars woe
fully and received his little slip of
paper.
Rertaurant Licenses Reduced
On the other hand restaurant keep.
er who had lOny held his place in the
line and who has paid licenses for many
years threw over Ave ten dollar gold
uieces Just like that" He received
the surprise of his life when the clerk
handed back ten dollars and told him
the license cost only forty dollars. An
other new law had gone in effect,
One man wanted to go hunting and
inquired if he had to have a license.
He was told politely that such would
be the requirement; that he would be
reruired to pay five dollars for such
privilege and in addition would have
to paw fifty cents for the stamps which
would be affixed on his little piece Of
paper. He was informed that he would
he given a small brass tag free Of
charge with the provision that the tag
must be tied onto his fowling piece
when he started out on his hunting
excursion,
The nimrod demurred n little at the
five dollars and half but the argument
was clinched when the clerk announced
that informers on hunters who go In
quest of game without license are
entitled by law to collect one'half OF
the fine imposed. In departure the
clerk informed the new possessOr Of
the license that il he violated the Vro-
vision which reNuirPs that he keep his
brass tn" tiel 70 his fowIino, piece he
would be denied another license.
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