The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-12-15
SUPERV|SORSROW
0VERlwPROvENENT
larsen and Arnold Stage Their
Famous WrancIe sklt En-
n ~" titled :.'You're Another"

!. A resolution offered by Supervisor
Arnold, chairman of the road board, at
meeting of the board Of supervisors
last night, providing for the creation
Of the Puuhui Improvement district,
caused a merry rumpus among members
of the board and. was finally shelyed,
to be taken up for consideration in
committee Of the whole next Friday
night. Z ~. -Eat e., 4
( The creation Of O Puunui improve
ment district has been long discussed
and large number of citizens were
present, evidently for the purpose Of
discussing the matter with the board.
But when Arnold's resolution was
read Supervisor Larsen arose and
moved TO refer IL to the committee Of
the, whole, at the same time giving
notice that he would move similarly in
the case of any future matters Of the
same kind. .
That made Arnold wrathy. Such
motion was foolish, he said. The mat
ter had been under discussion for many
months and everybody knew about il.
The time for the board to consider il
] in committee of the whoe would DO
after the engineer had prepared his
plans and specifications. To refer II
10 the committee of the whole now
would be only to postpone action with
out doing any good.
e '"There is going to be criticism and
: objection in. the case of every improve
, ment district resolution brought into
this board" he said, land you might
as well understand it, There always
has been, except in the case of the
Beach Walk Improvement district, and
the Beach Walk people asked for that
Themselves.
/ Supervisor Hatch agreed with Lar
sen. He thought the board should con
slider the matter before acting, so It
wonld know what it WINS doing.
l. Larsen was determined. lyon know,
1 and 1 know, and we all know" he
said, "that negligence on the part of
4 this, board has cost and will cost the
city of Honolulu enormous amounts of
! money"
The discussion was a long one, but
finally Arnold lost out, all the other
members voting against him.
When the matter of the Smith Street
Improvement district upon which there
was public hearing last week, came
up ia the form of a resolution to create
such 4 district, Larsen, wanted this also
Preferred to committee of the whole.
That irritated Arnold, who told the
board in emphatic words that the mat
ter had been fully discussed and every
member of the board knew all about it.
He added that no agreement of sale for
he property to be bought by the city
| a. ukr hn oh
tanned from the Dowsett estate, only
q man g word, and that if the board
neglected to buy the land for the pre-
sent price of approximately $4,000, il
would be unable to buy it for that price
after December 81 when the taxes on il
should have been paid.
In this instance Arnold won out
Larsen failing to obtain a second to hi
amendment to refer to committee of the
whole. Notwithstanding the fact thai
the Amendment had not received a sec
ond, the board wrangled over the mat
ter for half an hour.
i Arnold also. introduced a resolution
appropriating $la,535 for the purchase
Of the property needed for a new street
N the proposed Improvement district.
4 The board adopted report of the en-
yiHeer containing specifications for the
Improvement of Bcretania Street be
Ween King and Nuuanu and authorized
| tenders to DE called for.