The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-07
No Money For Belt
Road For Two Years
Money For Kahului Water Supply
Also Must Wait Till Third Bond
Sale-GOvernOr Says Maui Was
Asleep.

Because Maui was asleep at the
switch, Governor Mccarthy implies,
two important projects provided for
under the loan act past by the last
legislature, now have no chance what
ever of getting any action for prob
ably at least a year and half.
One of these projects is the appro-
priation for the Wailuku waterworks
of $4,000 upon which the people of
Kahului have been depending to get
an adequate water supply. The other
is the $4,000 item for the macadamiz-
ing of the belt road through the pine
apple district, the lack of which work
jeopardiZes a considerable part of the
pineapple industry of Maui in case of
a few months of rainy weather such
as occurred in 1914.
Because the Maui people made no
sign during last July and August, at
the time that Governor Mccarthy was
arranging the various loan fund items
for the several bond issues in the or
der of their supposed Importance,
these two very important items were
shunted to the third and last issue
while Hawaii and Oahu items were
placed in the second instalment. This
tentative arrangement was published
with the idea that it was not salts
factory there would bt a protest. The
Governor says that Maui was, from
all the evidence he could gather
satisfied
Bad Situation
But Maui is not satisfied, though it
is now too late to do anything, the
Governor says. The second bond is
sue which was to have been floated
some months ago and which will be
this fall, has been authorized by the
President and cannot be amended
Parenthetically it may be mentioned
that the reason for the postponement
A of this issue was not the weak condi-
tion of the bond market but because
the bond attorneys of the prospective
buyers declined to approve the issue
for the reason that it was being is
sued within the same fiscal year as
the first issue, the law providing that
this may not be done where the
amount is more than a certain per-
cent of the assessment value of the
territory.
For the same reason it will not be
possible to issue the third lot of bonds
until the fiscal year following that in
which the second allotment was made,
or after June 80, 1921. The third is
sue will therefore be made perhaps
not earlier than the fall of next year,
and the money made available prob
ably sometime in 1922.
Work Delayed
The need of increasing the water
supply of Kahului is patent to most
persons on Maui. OF course the coun-
ty might have made provision for ii
but the matter was taken to the legis-
lature and provision made in the loan
fund act. Therefore the county took
no cognisance of the matter when
making up its budget, and consequent
ly has no money that can be diverted
TO the work.
The belt road matter is also a
~recarious one So Lang as dry
weather holds there Il Ne no diff
Guilty, but Wa. ~ Nus acre
age planted to p, Pea
hi district wei ~
season might be sible
calamity to the pm 4owers. In
this connection tK nor is also
reported to have that someone
from Maui, whose name he could not
at the time remember, had told him
that the belt road was not a pressing
matter and that, owing to he shortage
of labor it should be held over
About the only items of any inter.
est in the second loan are the $780,
600 for the Mala wharf and $4,000 for
the road up Lao valley. Governor Nc.
Carthy says he was of the opinion
when no objections to his plans were
forthcoming, that the items in the
third loan were all of minor import
ance on par, for example, with the
item for court house at Lahaina.