Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-09
BUSY SESSION
IS ASSURED TO
SUPERVISORS
Much important Business Will
Be Considered and Acted
on This Evening !:

There will be much for the super.
visors to do at tonight's meeting The
scheme of the city engineer for the
imrrov ament of Kalakaua avenue is
coming up, a new improvement pro-
ject. embracing Puuiwa, Park and Lai.
mi streets, will be presented by the
engineer: amendments to the pur.
chasing agent ordinance will be in.
troduced; the final report of the me.
mortal committee will be made; the
mayors bond issue message will be
taken from the table; the question of
whether or not the salary Of l.. NJ.
Whitehouse, assistant city engineer,
for the month of April, is to be paid
will be settled, as will a number of
minor matters.
Collins Kalakaua avenue project
tin yesterday. There will be some OPP
position to it and he is prepared to
offer alternate schemes. ...=. r.
There will probably be no opposi-
tion to the proposal to improve Laimi,
Puiwa and Park streets, certainly no
effective opposition for James T. Tay-
lor owns more than IS per cent of the
property on the streets and he is in
favor Of the project ..-...
The amendments to the purchasing
agent ordinance, the purport of which
was given in the Star-Bulletin last
week, are the result of a conference
between the department heads and
H. E. Wescott, city purchasing agent,
held at the suggestion Of a number OF
the supervisors, so 1t is presumed they
will go through without opposition
The memorial Is dead. That is con-
coded by practically the whole board.
There Is q possibility, however, that
with the members of the committee
having the memorial In charge voting
in favor Of 1t to save their faces, an
other vote may be secured and the
measure passed for presentation to
the governor. ...:..
Mayor Lane has declared that he
will see that his bona message is TAX
en- from the table tonight, and Super
visor Charles ~ Arnold said this
that II no one else made the
motion he would, so discussion on the
to issue $750,000 in NUM-
cipal bonds is assured The mes
sage will probably be referred to sew
eral Of the committee interested in a
bond issue-a section of it to each of
them. Then, as the program goes, it
will be taken before the city's semi
public bodies and discussed and after
public opinion on the proposal has
been sounded a measure framed en-
bodying all the ideas gathered from
The discussion and presented to the
board. =. =. - :-...
It is confidsntially predicted by
those around the city hall who gener-
ally know what is going on that the
road committee and the city attor-
ney, to whom was referred the ques-
lion of whether or. not the salary of
L. M. Whitehouse for April should be
paid, will recommend that no warrant
be issued. Whitehouse has drawn $3.50
rom the city treasury since the first
Of the year without appearing at his
office more than two or three times.
Late in March he was notified that his
services would be no longer required,
yet he did not appear at the city hall
Until after his connection with the
payroll had been severed and neither
lid he notify the city engineer that
le was i'll until it came. to the time
when his warrant for April was due.
Final award of the contract for the
Aanoa Improvement work was to be
made to F. r. Richie, the successful
bidder, tonight but cable has been
received from him asking that this
,e deferred as long as possible in or
Ter to save him from unnecessary pay
nents on the premium of his $751;. 6S1
,ond and his request will probably be
complied with
Public hearing on the Sea View inn
project will be held by the
Board of Supervisors ct its, meeting
onight. But one protest, that of
AIRED G. Smith, has been lodged with
he clerk to the Board Mr.. Smith
Ibjects to- the inclusion of his lot in
he assessed district, claiming that
t is not benefited by the improve
nent.
Reports OF the governor and the
hoard of Health on the sanitary con-
Iition Of the city's Nuuanu water sup
,ly will be read at the meeting. The |
eports were made TO the Oahu Loan
rund Commission and forwarded to
he board, as the commission de-
Jared that the supervisors are more |
oncnrnad ovcr fha condition of the