The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-09-27
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Secretary Of the Territory Curtis p.
Iaukea was busy yesterday distribut.
ing the commissions TO the scores of
inspectors of election for the primaries
and regular election at the military
posts. .1.,
Owing to the fact, that Chairman
Lyman H. Bigelowy Of tbek board Of
harbor commissioners, is visiting the
Island Of Kauai on business for the
board in connection with the final deci.
sion as to establishing harbor on
that island, there WAS no meeting of
the board yesterday.
Half Of sixty Japanese men and wom-
en- who arrived here by a recent boat
from the Orient, seeking entry into Ha-
wall as reimmigrants, are held at the
local United States immigration station
because they have failed TO pass hteracy
tests or eye examinations. They will
be reexamined in q few days and those
who pass then will be permitted TO
land while those failing will be ordered
deported. q
E. j. Burkett has been appointed
deputy chief inspector and sapitarian
and will take up his duties on October
l under Chief Inspector Clifford Char
lock. The chief will devote the major
portion of his time to inspection of
buildings, particularly tenements, while
the deputy will take charge of the in
spectors; the mosquito and sanitary
work having been combined under ono
bureau.
Mrs. Parkhurst Maddu1 and Miss
Mary Bentley gave addresses at the
Ad Club luncheon yesterday on the
work women are doing in the war,
speaking particularly of the part the
Y. w. c. A. is playing Miss Bentley
who is here as the representative of the
Woman s Council Of National Defense,
spoke of the great army of women
working in munition plants. One fac
tory alone employs 10000 girls.
The Punahou Mothers Association
will hold an important meeting next
Tuesday at three O'Clock in Charles r.
Bishop hall. All mothers having chill.
dren at Punahou are urged to be pres
ent as the matter of constitution and
bylaws is to be taken up.
Yung Kat Chu, q fourteen year old
Chinese boy, was treated at the emer-
gency hospital yesterday for injuries
to his right foot. The lad was riding
on bicycle behind an auto truck and
his foot was run over by the hind
wheel Of a passing auto.
DR.. T. Tadokoro of the Sapporo, Hok.
kaidO, agricultural college, who is now
studying sugar cane and pineapple cul-
tivation in Hawaii, addressed the week
ly luncheon of the japanese Business
men Club at the Nuuanu "Y" yester-
day noon. The topic of his address was,
:" Farming in Hokkaido, Formosa and
Sentence will be pronounced tomor-
row morning at nine o clock by Judge
Heen on Kusaka Haga, a reporter of
Hawaii Hochi, a local Japanese paper,
who was convicted recently by a jury
in Judge Heen s court on a charge of
criminal libel in second degree. As he
is well known among the Japanese wide
attention was paid to the trial.
Mrs. Justinia Fernandez was arrested
yesterday afternoon charged with com
mission of statutory offense. The wo-
man 8 husband was arrested two weeks
ago and sentenced to two weeks so
journ on the reef for failing to provide
for his wife When Fernandez got out
of Jail, he did a bit of investigating,
according to the police, and his wife s
arrest followed.
Sergeant T. A. Mcclellan, of C com
pany, Fort Shafter, found an allotment
check yesterday afternoon made out
to Louise Patrick Coffey, and left it at
The Advertiser business office. The
owner can have the check by calling
at The Advertiser and being identified.
Dan Keauni, a Hawaiian stevedore,
fell from the rail of a ship he was
working on yesterday and sustained in
ternal injuries which necessitated his
being sent tp the Queen s Hospital
In an editorial of Nippu Jiji, Editor
Y. Soga'of the Japanese paper highly
praised United States District Attorney
Huber for the action taken by the
federal official regarding the Kona
Japanese who were caught laking |
Japanese brew but who were let 90 with
advice not to violate the federal pro
hibitiOn law again. Soga believes that
the less severe in furnishing the offend
ers the greater will the result be.