The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
BEACH SURVEY is ORDERED
Plan Is Up To Legislators Now
HsrbOr Commission : Passes
Resolution Calling For
Speedy Action

lulu, to whom II rightfully belongs bu
who are barred from It illegally b!
private property owners, WAS put OF
an active, working basis by the boar
Of barbor commissioners at their regu
lar weekly meeting yesterday. Tn,
board, by the adoption o. a resolution
proposed by james Wakefield, the origi
nator Of the scheme, directed the chair
man to have surveys made and esti
mates Of cost prepared Tor submission
10 the legislature, which will be asked
70 make loan fund appropriations t.
cover the expense Of the undertaking
.'It is now up 10 the people Of Homo
lulu and to the legislature said Com,
missioner Wakefield at the conclusion
Of the meeting eff the people ap,
prove Of the project and want it ear
ried through, II Is for them to make
known 20 the legislators their wishes
In the matter H.. .....
The project contemplated by the har.
Dor board divides itself into two parts,
one the construction of promenade
utohk tut fbthBu uDONt TbTl IJt huHSY,
coupled with the dredging out of the
coral along the beach to make fine
bathing beach the other the dredging
out Of the Kakaako and Kewalo fats
and the hlling in of the swamps of
those districts as well as of the Wal.
kiki swamps. -...
Since last week when he first put
forward his big scheme, Commissioner
Wakefield has revised IL, providing now
for a promenade walk along the beach
instead of a boulevard driveway. As
he explained il outside the board room.
there does not seem to be any real ne.
cessity for q driveway along the beach.
That could not be Of length sufficient
TO make commanding boulevard, and
would cost much more than the pro-
posed beach walk or promenade. The
opening up of Kalia road and its June.
tion with Kalakaua Avenue, Mr.. Wake.
field thinks, would provide an excellent
boulevard. &-..,
Plars For Promenade '.'
A promenade instead of boulevard
would insure against accident by auto.
mobiles and other vehicles, and would
be much less objectionable to beach
residents gE ".
4 The scheme as projected now calls FOR
broad concrete walk above high wa
Ter mark, constructed partly on strip
Of land along the beach and partly out
over the water. II is proposed also TO
dredge out the coral that now makes
much Of the water useless for bathing
purposes.
The completion Of this scheme would
give the people of Honolulu, and their
visitors, a Waikiki beach of which they
could well be proud and of which tour.
lists could not complain, as they do now.
This part of his project Commission.
CT Wakefield placed before the board
IN the form of the following resolution,
which was unanimously adopted: :.
Resolution Adopted ..1". -.
Resolved: That the chairman of
the board be authorized and requested
70 have q survey made of the beach at
waikiki, starting from the easterIy
boundary line of federal government
property, known as Fort de Russy. to
the easterly boundary line OF the prop
erty now controlled by the City and
County of Honolulu, and used for a
public bathing resort; and from high
water mark out TO low, low water mark.
on to q point ten feet out makai from
high water mark; with the purpose in
view OF constructing a beach walk for
the use OF the general public. Said
walk 70 be built on reinforced concrete
piles, with reinforced concrete slab,
the bottom OF the slab TO be three feet
above high water mark. -
- The general course of the walk TO
follow the property line of the Terri.
tory of Hawaii, viz: high water mark.
and to extend ten feet makai from high
water mark; also to prepare an esti-
mate Of the cost of construction of sueh
q walk to the length ami dimensions
given; for the purpose Of submitting
same to the forthcoming legislature for
such action in the marteT as il may
deem proper TO adopt
The harbor board is equally urgent
that the reclamation of the, swamp
lands of Kakaako, Kewalo and Waikiki
be proceeded with with as little delay as
possible, and to that end IT adopted an.
other resolution proposed by Commits
sioner Wakefield, as followsa-
tRESOLYED: That the board OF
harbOr commissioners consider il of VII
tai Importance TO the Territory Of Ha.
wall, and particularly to the City and
County of Honolulu, that the. work Of
restraining all swamps and insanitary
lands and property in the Kakaak D,
Kewalo and Waikiki districts be pro.
ceeded with, and pressed forward to its
contamination with as little delay as
possible, and 49, ~. ~.. 49,
ftWHEREAS, The senate and con.
gress of the United States have placed
all shores, and shore waters, Of the
Territory of Hawaii under tina, CONTROL
Of the board of barboF tomrtJ ssionkrs;
now . .....
Dredge Kewalo Bay g..
ttTHEREF0RE The board 0f bar
bor commissioners hereby resolve that
the dredging of Kewalo Bay be made
part Of the general plan of the Wal,
Xxi and Kewalo reclamation scheme,
By using the material dredged from
the bay for the purpose Of filing the
swamps and unsanitary lands in said
districts; and in pursuance OF said
scheme the chairman of the board of
harbor commissioners Is hereby author
ized 10 have survey made Of Kewa-
10 Bay from the property owned by the
Bishop estate at Kewalo to the wester.
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