The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-08-24
Harbor Commissioners Approve
Plan For Storage Plant at
-. Kuhio Wharf
M'GREGoR'S LANDING j.
~. OPPOSED BY MAUlITES
Board Takes Steps To Repair
Property Under Approprla-
" ton BY Legislature

Permission to erect lO,0OO-gallon
inolasses tank in the vicinity of Ku-
hio wharf, Hilo; and to operate pipe
lire aud pump on the wharf to get the
molasses into tanks aboard steamers
alongside the wharf, was granted by
the harbor board, at its meeting yes.
terday, to the Hakalau Plantation Com,
pany, subject to approval by Governor
Pinkham. y 'r -.
The question of the boards author.
ity in the premises had been referred
to the attorney general and he had
also been asked to prepare lease
agreement between the board and the
company in case such permit could BE-
granted. The attorney general s opinion
submitted to the board was favorable
and the Increment accompanied the
opinion, "5 '........8
The tank win be erected at the cost
of the company, while the pipe line
will be laiu down, on the wharf anu
controlled at all times by the harbor
board. Specially constructed tank ears
of the Hilo Railroad Company will
transport the moiasses from the mill
al uakalau, fourteen miles north OF
HiIo, TO the wharf in Kuhio Bay, in
side of the new breakwater.
Maui Citizens Send Petition 90.
A petition signed by l32 business
mon ..nd, residents OF Maui, opposed
strenuously the expenditure of $4,000
voted by the last legislature for the
extension of the wharf at McGregor s..
They ,ask, that this wharf, which the
petitioners claim is perilous at all
times, be abandoned in favor of Kihei,
further south on the coast and which,
it rs alleged, is safe in all kinds of
weather.
There has been considerable feeling
among Valley Islanders in regard to
the respective merits of the two land
mgs.a'd he Inter,Island Steam Naviga;
tiOa Company has opposed the Kihei
proposition ON the score that II seldom
Is safe for its steamers to operate
tLere.N The company also favors Nc
GregSr's as against Kihei which, by
the way, is many miles nearer to Wal
Iuku, the county seat, three miles in
laud on the opposite of lee coast Of
Is,and Merchants to Act
Th6 Aitui chamber Of commerce at
Wailuku il said to have declared it.
self in favor of Kihei, but the ques-
trun will come before it again at the
request Of the karbor commission, which
wants an expression more up. to date.
A motion backing the request of the
citizens of Maui, as set forth in the
petition presented yesterday, will go
before the chamber at its next meet
ing to he voted upon and in case it is
adopted the haAbor board will be in
formed of it.
The petition was referred by the board
to Chairman Forbes for further investi-
CATION and consideration, the chairman
TO report at the regular meeting to be
held ut half.past one O'Clock tomorrow
afternoon in the office Of the superin-
tcndent of public works, Capitol.
Kuhio Wharf Road Again
On the subject of the road approao h
to the Kuhio wharf, the request of
the Hawaii board Of supervisors that
the harEor board appropriate 1925,
which is the amount in excess of the
$1,000 voted by the supervisors for the
cOumty's share of the cost of the road
under the lowest bid, submitted by
Jose Francisco Ferreira, the board de
ciled to ask the attorney general if 1t
can make the appropriation asked for.
Chairman Forbes was authorized to
expend a portion of the $4,000 apprO-
priation for repairs and upkeep of ter
rtorial wharves, made by the last leg
islature, the chairman estimates for
the work In view and TO be begun al
most Immediately, being; Pier 7,
5000; Pier ~, $4,000; Pier IA, $4,000,
and Pier 16, $4,000, The Governor
will have to approve TINS division of
the general appropriation. Informal
bids asked by the chairman for the
, painting Of Piers and brought forth
the following tenders: Sharp, 5000;
Stacker, $225O; Joseph Whittlej $500,
and Rogers. 1880.
I >rbes Reports on Kauai Trip
In regard to his Kauai trip, from
which he returned on Sunday, Chair
nan Forbes reported to the board that
ALBERT Wilcox had signitied his inten,
ii III to donate the strip Of land neces'
ry for the erection of Il warehouse ad'
jacont to the present wharf at Hanalei,
and that former Senator Eric A. knud'
sen would likely give to the board the
required title to the land necessary for
t! e new wharf at Waimea.