The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-12
REPORFREVIEWS aa /.
WORK ON HAWAII
Record Presented At Meeting Of
Harbor Commissioners BY
Engineer Wheeler

The annual report Of all work done
on the Island Of Hawaii within the past
year by the bQhtdE % hhhbt r9amis,
sioners was submitted htF. ygstsrlsg' s
meeting of the boarf by.iA. c. Wheeler,
county engineer on Hawaii, and is to
be embodied in the harbor board's an
Hual rapport, which is now being com.
piled.
+. A large part of the report is devot-
ed to Kuhio wharf and II is stated
that though the wharf has not been
used to its fun capacity in the past
twelve months, ppch Of the loading Of
| vessels in the harbor is still being
done from scow lighters, though safe
! mooring at the wharf is now afforded
by the breakwater.
Much Sugar Handled
The report says that in, the year q
total of 32,63S tons of sugar was han.
died by the conveyor system, which
the report says has been operating sat
isfactorily. Large quantities of sugar
| have also been stored on the wharf,
due in some measure to the shortage
of ships. It is reported that some loss
in stored sugar has been occasioned
through sweating. A suggestion to close
| up the sugar side Of the wharf so az
to exclude the damp sea air, the re-
port says, is now being investigated.
Additions made to the wharf include
fire fighting equipment and oil pipe
lines that have been installed by the
| Standard Oil Company. The fender
system also has been repaired
Reference is made in the report to
work that has been done in connec
ton with the new wharf. The appro-
priatiOn of $4,000 for this which was
made at the 1917 session of the legis-
lature was increased to $250,000 at the
recent special session. The sale of
$4,000 worth of bonds supplied funds
with which to do the preliminary work
of making borings and Soundings and
these, the report says, extend over an
area of $4,000 square feet.
Location Approved
The board has approved a location
chosen for the new wharf which IL to
| be $50 feet long and 200 feet wide,
but some changes in location, it is said,
may be made, necessary by conditions
on the bottom revealed by bOrings. The
new wharf is to have track cOnnec-
tions with the main line of the Ha
waiian Consolidated Railway Company
whose tracks now run to to the present
wharf.
The report says that a waterfront
survey at Hilo has been made from
high water several hundred feet in
land and extending from the mouth
of the Wailoa river to the shore end
of the breakwater. The ownership of
all lands and those owned by the Ter
ritorv and leased to the Waiakea Mill
Company and others, is indicated in
maps made in connection with the sur
4 vey.
On the map Of the area that has
been prepared the harbOr board has
designated tracts that are to be re
served for future Improvements.
Other Wharves
Concerning HOnuapo wharf the re-
port says that eight additional piers
were added in the year and the ap-
proach widened thirty feet. Badly
needed repairs at Honuapo were start
ed in February and the wall along the
side slip was reinforced with a con
crete wall a foot wide and a concrete
floor five feet wide from the outer edge
of the new wall for the length of the
shed was built. Repairs to the roof
and other Improvements were also
made. The report says also that a
number of improvements and repairs
have been made in the year to the
wharf at NapOOpOO.