Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-07
lETTERs
ANSWERING COUNTRY CLUB OF
-ReEToRS ON ROAD CON.
TRQvERSY.

~ I1rs Mtii You klnaIy grant me SpdCt
| for the following remarks:
When got off the Puunui Improve.
ment Club Committee had hoped to
lget out OF the Coantry Club scontro-
lversy and leave the work for the new
lc6mmitfee. However. the Country
ICIhb directors letter to their mepi-
bers was such a series or nisstate-
Ements that am compelled to correct
few OF them.
At the beginning OF the letter. FOR
a reason cannot fathom. the direc
| tors REPRESENTED Circle drive as Lalinf
road extension This portion was
oRitte8 frc-h the Honolulu Star. Rnl
.4sn d Moaday. but the members
WI .ffE1 il. II looks TO me like q
kpd OF trick. which i would neter
hive Suspected such gentlemen sof
piayings even on Punnui. much less
! "a the,E own members. Also. the mar
which Vent with the letter ignored
ctcIe drive THIS road would rim
along kr. Sherniah's boundary ap9t
JON Nu6anu avenue at the land some
tsndred feet or so below Laimi road.
/ Circle drive has been 3s freely dis
ciissed as. the many other routes. Mr.
Sutton knew of it. as discussed il
With him and gave him a blue print.
1t was on the maps handed to the d.
rectors .at the meeting with the -su.
pfryisofs road committee. The blng
print had been shown to Mr.. Walker
ahd~aIn Angus. The Outdoor Cire.e
sent a print TO the directors over a
| year ago. On this misrepresentation
| at the sbeginni ing of the letter hth3
aSlot ok.fhe. directors arguments that
followed and would, invalidate them.
THE directors stated that we leftl
! q .rerticn or our district out because
the people there objected to paying
lie assessment foT the new road
This is not SO A section called
Cherry Vale Tract IS not in the Ruu-
mai Tract, and was excluded because
we. expected. they would sAbject to
| frontage tax" We included part OF
the Country Club because we had q
nor al right to run road there; they
had previously taken our roads away
But when in perfect eandor we told
The. directors these things, we did not
expect them to garble the facts and
try and make capital out Of the re-
suit
The matters OF the old trails are
| facts which some of the directors
| themselves know of. and there is evil
dence to support the same. sBecau1s'
few malihinis get into the directers
ate and do not understand sold conak
tions, IT Is strange that the older
members permit their knowledge to
| be- oyerborne
Did the club acquire remote AMI
| largely waste tract of land" and de
] yelop it to. It's present beautiful con.
lltions at heavy expense and financial
risk land thereby do "a useful public
service by greatly enhancing values
OF nefghboring lands and settling ap
| the same for the benefit Of the pub
lie, for for its members? And II the
club had not developed that waste"
(the finest building land In Honoiulul
residents would nave developed II
long ago. Punnui people would have
been free to go manka or makai, and
Four property would not have depre.
Gated, as the tax, assessments show
it has. The Country Clubs presence
! has been a detriment to us, not 4
benefit, under the conditions 1t has
/ imposed on US. !.
1t is absurd for the directors to say
they are. not attempting to put obs
staeIes in our way. No laborers have
ever worked harder on an sukupanp
/ than have these officers in inventing
obstacles. And they claim they are
trying to help Puunui-their actions
have belied their words. 1t has suited
the directors very nicely TO maintain
"a 200 feet belt of guaRa around the
maulza boundary OF Pnunuf. 1t has
suited them to allow short road
connecting streets, which was of
benefit to Puunui, to be closed. 1t
has suited them to see Puunui taxes
/ kept down for fear their own taxes
might be raised. This public SER
vice. utility brags about doing use
tul public service and enhancing
values of neighboring lands" mean,
ing Nuuanu avenue, as long as the
i values of their own lands in the back
arespot raised 1t puts up big howl.
toweyer, when through our efforts the
Reimbursement promises to affect the
back lands also. q
The wiplng out of the seventeenth
tee should not inconvenience them.
as il is en- another. persons land.
have never heard II they offered to
I pay the other person any rent
One funny argument is: "A bird s.
eye view of the. Puunui section taken
from Pacific Heights conyincingly
shows that some point near Hawaii
street is the proper mauka outlet"
Why not instruct our city engineer
to lay out the grades of the Honolulu
reads from the top of Konahuanui?
OF course. Hawaii street looks feas
4 lble from the top off Pacific Heights,
as from that Elevation the valley bot
! tom looks very fiat. An examination
i of Hawaii street grade ION the
ground would have prevented even
these directors from making such q
recommendation.
+ Why the red lines sons the directors
Il