The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1921-07-12
CHAMBER HOLDS AN
IMPORTANT MEETING

AT its regular meeting last Wed.
nesday night the Kauai Chamber of
commerce went on record as unan-
a imously endorsing the petition that
Hawaiis labor commission is making
TO congress, /. e., that a limited num-
Der of Oriental laborers be admitted
to the Territory for a period of five
years. 1t is now reported that this
| bill has already been voted out by the
house immigration committee and
that it has a good chance of passing
congress.
A Tourist Blue Book
number of very interesting. mat
ters were brought before the Chamber
Wednesday night. Johnny Ness,
assistant business manager of the Ad-
Ter,iser, reported that his paper is
going to get out a tourist blue book"
for Hawaii telling of all the points of
interest to be visited on this and all
he other islands, giving distances
fr N place to place and mapping out
clearly and concisely just how to get
there. Short historic sketches of
the historic places and people will
also be given. In fact, Johnny says.
With this book tourist will be able
to 20 all over the territory, see all the
po hts of interest and not have to ask
| any questions Of anybody unless he
wants to. Elmer Cheatham objected
that he liked to have the tourists stop
and ask questions.
Ness asked that the Chamber OF
Commerce of Kauai endorse this
proposition, as similar organizations
Z n the other islands have done. C.
A. Baggott moved that the Chamber
get back of the movement and give
ell the possible support. 1t was
unanimously passed.
Roads!
That word stands for the hottest
argument c, the evening Someone
got up and said that something
should be done, and that something
quickly. or the government road from
the Moloaa pineapple fields to th'
Kapaa canrery and the stretch from
the Kalaheo homestead section to the
railroad carrying the cane to the Nc
Bryde mill would be ruined in very
short time. Several members testi-
fled fn tho fapt that thay hau
over these roads weekly for several
months and that since the canning
season ard the grinding season has
.act.NCiH started there has been a tre-
m 'ooue damage done to them, more
than the ordinary traffic does in
years.
Cheatham Starts Something
Mr.. Cheatham started the ball n
rolling by stating that the roads that
are being constructed now and those
that have been built in the last few
years are not properly constructed,
that they do not have enough oil in
them and in many cases no oil. He
said that the stretch of road over
by Makaweli that was put in 10 or 20
years ago was properly constructed,
oil and everything, and that it is in
just about as good condition as it
ever was, while some of the roads
that have been, put up in the last
few months, year or two at the
most, are already going to pot fast.
Wishard Replies
You couldn't expect a chairman of
the board of supervisors to let that
pass. Wishard stated very en-
phatically that the road at Makaweli
did not have oil, that some of the
roads that have been constructed
later, most of them in fact, and that
are now going to pieces, were con-
structed with great deal of oil used
in their makeup. The roads that
are going to pieces got just as much
material of every kind as those that
are standing the test of time and
hard usage.
The recently constructed length of
getting holes in it was mentioned.
That, it was brought out, is one of
the best constructed pieces of high
way on the island. 1t is built Just
like the famed Makaweli stretch.
One of the men said that the differ
ence that counted is the road found
alton The Makaweli road has a
hard clay foundation while the Wal
lua stretch is house built on sand"
This is fundamental difference that
cannot be avoided.
Did you Know This7
Mr.. Wishard stated that while the
Kauai tax rate is about per cent,
only one per cent Of it goes for the
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