The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-05
SUPERVISORS CUT
DOWN FUNDS FOR ]
PROMOTION WORK.
Decide To Give No More Money
From Treasury To Commit
tee For Boosting
| DECLARES BODY VASTLY
oVERESTIMATED BY CITY
Board Also Refuses To Increase
Pay of Firemen, But Gives
Freitas More Money

Working for three hours last night
on the appropriations for the coming |
three months the board Of supervisors |
passed the bin as prepared by the |
various committees with but slight |
changes and with few disputes. The
only wrangling that Cnsued was oc.
easioned by the proposal to make
donation of $3.50 month for six
months to the promotion COMMITTEES, an
extra appropriation for the Leahi home,
and proposed increasc in the pay Of
the members Of the FIRE department,
The promotion committee came in for
some hard knocks andSlad few defend.
ers among the municipal solons, the
only member who had n good word for
the promotionists being supervisor Hol
lingcr. .1"#
Following charges that the promotion
committee should be called knocking
committees, that its importance to Ha.
wall had been wildly ovcrratrd, that IL
was not as necessary as many had been
taught to believe, and that much of its
~, information is in eases ridiculous, and
] further that most of the publicity of
Hawai- on the mainland had come
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lines and from other sources in spite
of the promotion committee the board
agreed to donate the sum of $500, or
$3.50 a mouth, at the end of June, prov
| ided there is any money left in the
general fund after all other bills had
been paid
stin More Pilikia e.
Further pilikm was aroused when il
vas proposed to increase the donation
to the LCahi home from $500 to $1,000
a month. In(this scrimmagr Superb
sor Hollinger. was the chrf opponent
to the proposed increase, and fought st
hard that the matter was defeated
Hollinger declared that the cost OF
maintaining the inmates of the HON,
was too high, and Tint the board wal
already paying too much towards the
institution. 20, 4 r. T. ......
When CHIEF of the Fire Department
Thurston came before the board to asl
for an increase in the pay of his men
the matter was debated from all angles
Several Of the supervisors appeared t.
; believe that il would be a good thin
to increase tue pay of the men, bu
Supervisor Hatch was memorable an
declared that the present conditions o
the finances would not permit Of an
: raises in pay. 'Eyen the proposition t
Q vote each of the men an increase of
: a month was voted down.
On the other hand, the board wa
y generous when the money was avail
l. able, aud did not hesitate to vote q
Increase Of twenty Ave dollars a mont
in the salary of Henry Freitas. builC
d ing inspector This money, howeve
.e comes out OF the earnings, of the d.
10 partmcnt In voting the increase I'll
d board expressed it's appreciation of II
s. efficient services, that have been re
D. dered by the building inspector.
is Small increases Made
W Another increase in salary was mac
n, in the case of the plumbing inspecto
ID whose salary was increased to $500
" month Several. small increases we
G. also made in the salaries in the Office
IN the county clerk and the purchasi
Cgent's Office. The payroll of the CT
p aud county engineer was increased
ne $7O5 a month; increases, were made
ne the district court, the electric Hg
err system and in the county Jail.
en- The appropriations from the sPecl
he school fund were made by speci
IT. resolution, and the sum of $Sl, 100 W
Dl- appropriated for the entire year. ri
rs money was divided as follows: NJ
ri buildings, So 100; repairs and main
of nance, $l7 300; furniture and fxtur
re $500; janItor service and suppl
an OOO ..