The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-05-25
NANOA CONTRACTOR
must HUSTLE NOW
Minimum Daily Stint Is Laid
Down In Ultlmatum
From Supervisors

After three weeks delay the road
committee last night. presented its re.
port Of its recent hearing on the Manoa
Improvement District contract, in which
the contractor, according to the city en-
gineer is working with insufficient ma
terial and equipment TO complete the
Improvement in contract time which is
september 1. =E
This report carried the draft Of a
letter to the contractor ordering him to
continue the work at a certain rate per
day upon the probable penalty Of hav.
ing his payments stopped and his con.
tract forfeited. The report goes into
the evidence obtained at the hearing
rather thoroughly but with the soft
pedal on the part played by the Hustace
Peck Draying Company, which was ae-
sused by the contractor Mt the open
hearing and by letter Of refusing to
permit the cooperation that was nee
,ssary to get the required supplies on
he scene. saR .....
The report was adopted unanimously
~ the supervisors.
cancellation Threatened
The Concluding paragraph of the let.
k.er which was thereby ordered to be
sent to the contractor, f. r. Richie &
Co., stated: SHOULD you fail to com.
ply with the orders herein contained
md TO remedy your default In the mat
ter Of delivery, making sufficient proc.
ress Is aforesaid and complying with
she direction of the engineer during the
ten days following the giving of
this notice this board may order all
payments to cease and the work to be
discontinued by you under the provi-
ions of Section IA of the general con
litions of the specifications. 1"
The minimum work which the con
ractor is ordered TO do per day by this
etter is 216 cubic yards of asphalt
macadam, sixty-fve cubic yards Of con.
,rete curb and gutter and twenty cubic
Yards of concrete pavement. This totals
70 three hundred cubic yards of work
lay which was the amount required to
complete the contract properly at the
line when the road committee s report
vas writtoH.E Three weeks has elapsed
iince then AID during that time there
has been o break down at the rock
,rusher and the work has fallen fur.
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Cannot be Done 81 4
1t was subsequently explained last
night that more, than 300 cubic wards
will be requifed If the contract is 10 be
| finished in time. The figure in the let
Yer was nod Exchanged, however. The
road coma1fttfe despairs at present Of
| GETTING the contract finished in time.
4 penalty Of a hundred dollars day
II far aoc1 1a.,t k..t...lu. A.. II.
continues is assessed against the con.
tractor by the general Conditions. y
The committee found that the cause
Of delay was ascribed to various rea.
sons, including lack of sufficient ma.
terial delivered, rainy weather, and in
ability of the Wilson quarry and crush.
,r to deliver the proper amount OF
rock. = r 81, f rT+ .rhE 5egrr
The committee found that the latter
'eason was particularly true and claim
| ed that the bunkers of the Wilson
srusher from which all rock is being
supplied the job, were exhausted prac.
tically every day before the stipulated
| amount had been delivered.
Rain No Excuse
The excuse of rainy weather the com,
mittee found to be no reason at all. A
reasonable amount of bad weather, II
stated in its report, had been allowed
for, when drawing UP the contract, and
IN examination of the records showed
that the bad weather which had actual
/ ly occurred had not been excessively
beyond that allowance. ~ -
4 Nor did the committee pay much at
tehtion to the charges Of the contractor
which we're more emphatically repeated
by the manager of Hustace- Peck & Co.
that the city engineer was Modelling
too much with the job. City Engineer
Collins was given strong copmendatior
\ by the committee in the report, and in
regard to this point ii stated:
| " Instance of interferences by the
engineer cited by the contractor are SC
insignificant rs compared with the nee
\ cssity of having the engineer contro
\ and direct the work according to spec
ifcations that they merit no considera
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