The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-22
While Authorities Here Have Sit
uation We'll In Hand They
Are Marking Time
! MORRIS K. KEoH0KAL0LE
STILL LlNGERS ON COAST
Government Makes Good Postal
Money-orders To Japanese
Amounting To $500

G'aia postOfice,- Island of Maui, is
scheduled for an investigation, but
United States Postal Inspector Thomas
Flavin Is awaiting the return of Morris
X. Keohokalole, postmaster, before
packing his grip and visiting the Val
ley Island to take up the threads of
what clues there may be with reference
20 number of postoffiee money orders
issued from that office for which money
was not forwarded, and for which tho
federal authorities had to reissue or
ders to make good.
The return of KeOhOkalOle, of course,
may straighten up the present unsatis-
factory situation, but KeOhokalole, at
the Hotel Stewart, in San Francisco.
when last he communicated with Ho.
nOlulu friends, may he away week
or two yet. In fact there has been no
definite day set for his return. Others
who attended the Republican and De-
mOcr8tiC conventions have returned,
but Morris is extending his soiourn in
the mainland, He has been cOmmuni.
r"tr1 with by the local postoffice Of
ficials and advised that there have
been apparent indiscrepancies and evi.
'Cnt mistakes in the Paia postOffice
and his presence might clear up the
situation. Within a day or two it is
expected that reply will he received
from him.
Mainland Authorities Notified
AS matter of form, for the fed
-ral authorities are no respector Of per,
sons, whether they be statesmen or
messenger boys, mainland postal au-
/ thOrities have been notified OF the con.
| iitiOn of affairs at the Paia post office
and, consequently, the irregularities in
! connection with the issuance of money
orders for which no money was receiv.
I'd until the Postoffice reissued the or
ders, will be kept in mind until who
ever is responsible is apprehended.
1t was stated the other day that
japanese Consul General Moroi report
ed that certain moneys were missing
from the Paia postoffice, that money
orders had been purchased for trans
mission to persons abroad which mo-
neys were not received. As a matter
of fact the japanese consul &c neral did
not report the matter at all. Mr.. Mo
! rOi was made aware of the facts
through the complaints of japanese who
had bought money orders and whose
! friends or relatives, to whom they had
addressed the money, had not received
the cash. Mr.. MOroi took the matter
up with the Honolulu postal chiefs and
was SO we'll assured that the whole
affair would be thoroughly investigated
that he gave no thought to making
the matter public.
First Case Months Ago
1t was not until one of the Puia Jap
anrse victims undertook to write let
| ter to japanese newspaper that the
affair became public. Then. as might
have been expected, one japanese news
paper copied it from another and soou
the news was in the English papers
! This Was not particularly pleasing tC
the comsul.Gcncral nor to the officials
10 had the case under investigation
iiut til" feline had escaped from the
sack, and there was nothing to do but
J d"rlare thnt the facts were correct $,
far Ms certain Japanese having pur
rhnSCd money orders was concerned.
X. AzntO, "A Japanese resident of Pa
IA, Maui. reported as long ago al
March of the present year concarniul
money "rdcr'which had been ISSUED
'i"m the Paia pOstOfficr in August OF
last wear. which he purchased to senC
TO HIS former home in Japan. On thii
there WAS no money forthcoming.
This was the first case brought t
'h" attention Of the Japanese consulate
The amount of the money order wal
$3.50. 1t was reported that the per
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