The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-13
TREAISURER.|S BUSY
SIGNING his NAME
TO MANY Licenses
20 A4-.i 49,
New Permits To Do Business In
Honolulu Will Be Issued First
of July
LOCAL MERCHANTS ALREADY
MAKING MANY INQUIRIES
More Than Two Thousand Mer-
camille Licenses To Be Sent
Out This Year

The city treasurer has been busy
signing his name to the new licenses
to be issued after the end Of the pres
ent month, for the coming fiscal year.
The licenses which may not be issued
before July !, are beginning to interest
many of the merchants of the city, and
others who have to secure them, and
already many inquiries are being made.
The principal licenses issued are the
merchandise, of which about 2O00 are
issued each year. Then come the TO.
baeco licenses, and the drivers and tho
vehicle. licenses.
The list Of licenses to be collected,
not including the liquor licenses, which
are handled entirely by the license com
missiohers, are, for the sale Of alcohol,
$50; auction, 5000 in Honolulu, SIS in
other districts; ava, 5000 in Honolulu,
$25 IN other districts; banking $3.50 in
Honolulu, $3.50 in other districts. L..
Merchants Who Pay
IL costs $40 for a barber shop license.
and &25 for each table in a billiard
pArlor and alley in bowling establish
ment. Billboard and outdoor adver-
Using costs $3.50; while q fishing boat
must pay IS. Brokers, both mprehan.
disc and stock and share, pay 800 u
year, while the custom house broker is
assessed half as much for the privilege
of doing business. Butchers nav from
$40 TO 800, and if they slaughter they
must put up a bond of $500.
Collection agencies pay $25 and the
owner of a draw or wagon must pay
$3.50 for permission to ply his trade
on the streets besides 81 for his driver
1t costs $50 a year to sell poisonous
drugs, and to dye and clean clothes, $25
is the fee. An every day employment
agency is supposed to contribute to the
municipality $25 for GETTING japanese
STRONG bows for the public but IN
emiGrant agent is "sOme punkins" as
the law wants him to Dunrle $5nn. DO,
sides putting up a bond Of $4,000 and
several other minor details. which must
be attended to before a license may BE-
issued to him.
Fees Are Graduated
A garage pays $50, and a farrier s.
Hotels and boarding houses are taxed
$50, and steam and hand laundries nav
respectively $50 and $25. Livery stables
in Honolulu pay $50, and in the outside
districts $25. Lodging and tenement
houses ere taxed 81. and the manufac
turers of food products, $50. The Ii
oense for the sale of mereha udise il
graduated so as not to make il tor
much of a burden on the small man
One who sells not to exceed $4,000 IL
n wear. pays 1925. he whose business
10 En- AEn n0O l.,
merchants who are lucky enough tt
aggregate 800 900 or over in his sales
for wear pay 800. Sworn statements
Of the amount Of business done are flee
when application is made for licenses
Purveyors of milk must paw $3.50 ant
nOi sellers 81 Notaries public in Homo
lulu pay a fee Of so, while those il
the outside districts have to contribut,
-. Vehicles for hire pay 81 for eael
passenger accommodation, and tn,
paw nbroker is assessed $50. To peddl'
cakes $50 Is deman ded, and for tn,
privilege of pushing a cart from which
TO sell. $50 is exactPd.
Hunting Permits Cheap
Hunting permits cost IS and publ,
show licenses are 5000 if paid in ad
vance for year, or 81 performance
Journeymen plumbers pay 81 while thu
master is assessed $40, and must pu
up n $500 bond. Restaurants In Homo
lulu pay $40, and in the country $50
Tobacco and cigar sellers each con
tribute $40 to the city treasury year
and trust companies $3.50 for handling
other peoples property.
The new licenses win be issued be
ginning with July l, and will run 70
a year.