The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1920-05-04

ought to be demolished and | under
stand there is plan on foot to put up
a rice mill just above the road at this
end OF the bridge on a kuleana there
This ought not to be allowed-and If
need be the private land there ought to
be condemned and reserved for public
use" After some farther discussion
the matter was referred to the parks
committee for consideration and act
ion.
! Request for Two Shipping
Board Steamers
The secretary read request that
this chamber should unite with other
similar bodies in forwarding a cable
resolution to the U. S. Shipping Board
for the ALLEGATION to Hawaii of two
passenger and freight service steam.
ers from the large number now build
ing. A resolution to that effect was
formulated and passed.
The lurline to Kauai
The secretary also read communi-
cation from the Honolulu Promotion
Committee apprizing us that the Mat,
son steamer "Lurline" would hence
forth render regular monthly service
to Kauai, remaining two days at Port
Allen, to begin about the middle of
May. In consideration of the extreme
value of this service to Kauai the Pro-
motion Committee requested a contri-
button of S25 month from Kauai to
assist in their work. AS the Chamber
has not sufficient funds to warrant
such an expenditure, this matter was
postponed for the present.
Better Service Badly Needed
Mr.. c. A. Rice struck responsive
chord when he said that we very badly
needed, and ought. to have, better
steamer service at the hands of the
Inter-Island. The Kinau was entirely
inadequate to the needs Of the Island,
Half the time you were lucky If you
got even a sofa with three in room.
Maui was to have the Kilauea for their
service-we ought to have the Mauna
Kea. He moved that the Inter-Island
Company be memorialized by this
chamber to that effect. This was car
ried unanimously and enthusiastically.
Status of Nawiliwii Harbor
In the absence of any representative
of the Harbors Committee, Mr.. Broad.
bent reported on the present status of
the Nawiliwili project, that the oces-
sary data concerning railway connect
ions had been gathered up and put into
proper shape, and forwarded to Col.
Newcomer to be sent on to Washing
ton, so that whatever the outcome
might be, we had now done. our part.
Mr.. Lydgate called attention to a
recent article in one Of the Honolulu
papers in which Col. Newcomer ex-
pressed serious qpestion as to the
need of a harbor at Nawliwili If
suitable harbor was constructed at
Ahukini, and apparently he so report
ed to Washington.
Hawaiian Rehabilitation Scheme
Mr.. Broadbent said that he in COM
mon with a great many others was
very much exercised over the outcome
of the visit of the legislative commits
sion to Washington. He had given
nj
thought, and yet hardly knew what to
say or what to think. He felt that un-
doubtedly the Hawaiians hadn't hid
square deal, and that something
should be done for them as a people,
but Just what or how he wasn't pre-
pared to say. In New Zealand and in
other countries under the British flag,
careful provision has been made for
the natives, so that they have COM
Portable income from their lands, and
these lands cannot be alienated away
from, and they cannot sell them ex-
cept by special dispensation of the
government and that only under the
most unusual circumstances. Some
kind of a rehabilitation measure ought
to be carried through, but that the
Wise plan is the right kind is very
doubtful, and it does not seem likely
that it will go through,
Don't Want to be indian Wards
P. l. Rice said that he had talked
with some of the more Intelligent Ha-
waiians and they did not approve at
all of the Wise plan. They did not
want to be wards of the government,
as the Indians We're, they didn't want
to be handicapped and hampered as
to what they could do with their
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