The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-05-25
WILL RAISE SEWER
AND WATER RATES
AND GENERAL ROW
City Said To Be Losing Money
On Schedule Obtaining
At Present 4.
ADOPTED SCHEDULE "
A SUBSTANTIAL BOOST
Resolution Providing For a Gen.
eraI Increase Meets
Approval
(F'rom Sunday Advertiscr)

At the meeting of the board of super
visors last night a resolution adopt.
ing a schedule of increased water and
sewer rates was read and passed. ...
The most notable increases are in the
household aud irrigation rates, the lat
ter having been increased about twenty
per cent. Pretentious building such
as those maintained by business insti-
tutions, hotels and tenements will II
the ordinance passes, be arbitrarily
rated on higher schedule, with the al
tentative of installing meters. The
resolution was prompted by the fact
that the city is losing money at the ex.
isting rates. ',"E.
supervisor Larsen is sponsor for the
ordinance, which reads as follows:
An Ordinance
Whereas, Section lS of Chapter IS
provides that at shall be the duty of
the General Manager or other officer
or officers in charge Of the Water and
Sewer Works Department, to prepare
and submit to the Board of Supervi.
sors as soon as may be after July /,
4, general water rate, both flat
and metered, and sewer rates, for per.
and governments, which shall be suffi-
lent to provide an income which will
provide for O, the operation and
maintenance of said systems; (2),
interest on bonds issued or to be is
'ued hereafter for the extension and
Improvement of said works, and cay,
he payment of said bonds, as required
Ivy Act 1873 Of the Session Laws of
1913, or any statutes hereafter enacted.
be 1t Resolved, that the Board of Su-
pervisors of the City and County OF
Honolulu, Territory Of Hawaii, do here.
by establish water and sewer rates,
both general and special, to take ef.
feet July J, 1915, as follows;
aousehould Purposes
Section !. For buildings having u
floor area of to 400 SO. #, the an
nual flat rate shall be 5000. aag
For buildings having floor area
greater than 400 50. IT.. there shall be
added $3.50 for each additional 100 50
#. or fraction thereof.
Section 9. @''Floor area " within the
meaning of Section shall include all
latticed, screened or closed in Porches
or Verandas. s. '. ss@.9ifK
irrigation Rates
Section 3. Irrigation where confin-
ed to such a. hours of the day as are
published from time to time BY the
Manager of the Water Department. ut
the rate of six -tenths ($0006) cent per
square yard per annum.
shipping Rates t@t
Section 4. Water shall be furnished
and delivered to shipping lying along
side any Of the wharves on the water
front where water pipes or mains are
laid at the rate of 500 cent per gallon
or ($l.5o) One and $1,000 Dollars per
1000 gallons .,-t.t
Special Rates ..,..
Section 5. For horses, mules and
cattle including water for washing. En-.
Horses each per annum. $50
Mules each per Rnnum ........ LOO
Cattle each per annum ...,.... 100
Section 6. For automobiles, water
used for washing etc, each per an
mum $l.O0. N,
Section 7. Commercial or Indust.
rial Use: Or banks, Offices, stores,
warehouse, book -binderies, printing Of
fees, saloons, barber shops, restaurants,
'oda fountains, ice cream parlors,
hotels, lodging houses, tenaments, pho
tograph galleries, bakeries, dentists,
garages, markets, mark ct stalls, but
cher shops, laundries, churches, halls
| md other kinds or places of business,
not covered by general rate, each to
be charged according to the estimated
quantity used at the same rate govern
ing meter charges. MI. ss K
Section s. For hydrants an annual
barge of $l.3O per hydrant or a sum
ufficient to pay the interest and sink.
ing fund on n 30 year bond covering
he amount invested by the Water De-
nartment in the furnishing and install.
ling hydrants.
Section 8. Swimming tanks. BATH.
ing pools of a capacity 0 TO 1000 gal.
Ions filled once per week, the rate snail
"e Ore and Fifty Hundred ($I. SOY Dol
'ars per annum. For each additional
,N"0 gallons $3.50. AS Il
The rate for tanks filled more than
0nce per week shall increase as the
lumber Of times the tank is filled
rh"ve once per week.
Section ~, No privilege shall be Is.
sued for less than $4,000 Six Dollars
nPr annum. rs.
Meter Rates
Each privilege served through a
meter shall nay a minimum rate of
7oc per month, this sum win allow the
'Se of 5000 gallons of water per
MONTHS Each additional 1000 gallons
shall he naid for at the rate of 6h
'r"ts Her 1000 gallons. .-.T
Section |. A plumbing FIXTURE with.
II the meaning of this resolution is any
"~rntahle for water or sewerage that
"rUuireS tran and waste nine and is
'"""""'"d with the public sewer. f
Section 2. Sewer charges shalt 10
nsS"ssed in all cases wh"-" the pnhlin
sewer or trunk lin" Is within ONE hund.
""d n"d fifty (l50) feet Of the pro
ueTtv line
I Confines on Piazza EightN