The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-09-12
Legal Opinion To This Effect BY
Office Of City Attorney Is
Forecast
COUP BY RCANDLESS
REPORTED AS ILLEGAL
Nhen Board Of Supervisors Holds
Next Meeting Matter Will
Be Considered

There Is much whispering around the
city hall and conferences held in silent
corners are the order of the day. Also
there is considerable traffic between the
office Of the city engineer and the city
attorney.
Just what all this sub rosa admins
tration is could not be officially learned
yesterday, but it is believed to refer
to the Beretania street project Since
l.. l.. MeCandlrss. by an act of civic
sabotage, threw a monkrywrench into
the well-greased machinery of municipal
development, and halted the wheels Of
he BeTetanih-strcrt improvement. Act
ing City Attorney \. NJ. Cristy has
been busy frying TO find out Just what
the status Of a lrssrc(is in signing peti-
tons. He has been making researches
for two weeks.
Discreet But Annoying Silence
Assisting him has been City Engin.
'er George NJ. Collins. who has been
handling the statistics Of the matter.
Between the two officials there has been
considerable intimacy during the past
fortnight But neither of the officials
has anything to say about the matter.
They maintain a discreet if an annoy
ing silence. 1t is generally known.
however, that they have been doing
team work to discover whether or not
'essees have any rights to protest
against municipal Improvement.
The city attorney 5 office will have its
report to present to the board of su,
oervisors tomorrow night It will not
be made public until that time. But
is the prediction of The Advertiser
hat the findings of Cristv will he TO
The effect that lcssr"s occupying pro
oerty along Beretana street will not
have a legal leg to stand on In other
words, the Bcretana street improve.
nent will be ordered to proceed. Just
IS soon as the supervisors have time to
study the report that will be filed BY
Acting City Attorney Cristy tomorrow
night.
M'Candless Has Inning
At the last meeting of the supervi-
'ors, when the Improvement from Nun
anu to King street was apparently halt.
III LOT SIX HOnInS by a mass or sigma
lures presented by McCandlcss, it was
thought that the Improvement project
was pau. There was lot of not un-
pleasant pilikia mt that meeting which
finally went up in to thin air because
Of necessary legal advice. 1t was learn.
d that more than ffty-fve per cent of
the residents in the district had signed
the petition of protest against the pro
posed work. McCandless was given
'redit for having the petition circulat,
ID. The meeting was at a standstill
Then it leaked through into the fer
lie brain of one of the board members
pr of the legal departments, or of the
engineering department. that the sig
natures of IrsSccs might not be legal
rhe matter WAS held in allowance and
he City Attorneys Office directed to
make the proper legal researches.
These researches are now complete.
Phe report is being prepared; in fact
is about completed, and will 60 into the
hands of the supervisors tomorrow
night. 1t is being kept secret No
body is supposed to know what it con.
tains. But around the corridors of the
"ity hall il is an even het TINT the
findings will result in the Bprrtanin
subject being thrown wide open and II
possibility that the supervisors will
order the work to 90 forward.