The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-08-12
UNPAVED ROAD
Is MENACE TO
PINE GROWERS
Appropriation Included in ihe
Loan Fund, bui Bonds Must
Be Sold Before Work Can
BE Done by County.

Constant threat TO the pineapple
canning and pineapple growing indus
| tries oI Maui are unpaved roads and
one of the most serious phases Of
such threat is the unpaved condition
Of the road from the end of the ma
cadamized road in the Kuiaha homie.
stcads toward Kakipi Gulch For the
building Of a good road in that sec
ton there is included in the loan
tund appropriations $3.50 for which
bonds have not been sold and for
which II may be impossible TO sell
bonds under present conditions unless
they shall be taken up on Maui. There
was letter on the subject from the
Haiku Fruit Company read at the
meeting of the board of supervisors
meeting on Wednesday. Inquiry was
made as to what the county has done
or was planning to do in the matter.
Growers Vitally Interested
Representing 500 growers, besides
its own important business the Hal
ku Fruit Company in its letter called
attention TO the seriousness of the
danger. For the past two or three
years there has been dry weather dur
ing the time when the carting of
pines has been at its height but
should there be rains such as those
Of 1914 IL would be impossible to
move pines in quantity over the roads
of the section of the country in ques-
tion, the very heart of the pineapple
district, and losses which would run
into the hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, perhaps into seven figures might
result. Pine growers have TO be
financed and such loss of crops would
fall not on the growers alone but m
on the canneries and financial instihl
tions as well.
In reply to the letter the supervis-
ors told the county clerk to say that
the county will be glad to proceed
with the work when funds are made
available, bnt the funds must come
from the sale of bonds. not out of
FUNDS raised by taxation. Members
OF the board recognize the situation
as II was pictured in the letter but
they are powerless to act. Further
they fear that under present financial
conditions in the world il may be i'm
possible 10 sell territorial bonds bear
ing the interest authorized and for
the price that must be realized. Hence
they suggest that those interested IN
the pineapple industry seek to take
up the bonds among themselves. Erov,-
ers, canneries and those financing the
growers. If that be done the board is
ready to proceed at once have the
county engineer prepare the plans.
get the approval of the department
OF public works, call for bids and have
the work done.
Maui Self-reliant
In the recent past Maui interests
and concerns closely connected with
Maui interests have taken up bones
Tor kahului wharf. Mala wharf and
the lao Valley road but financial con
ditions are not so bright as they were
few months ago the flotation of
$4,000 in bonds at this time may not
be so readily accomplished as was the
placing of bonds ia much larger
amounts formerly. There must be a
recognition that interest return is not
all that-is TO be sort but that pur-
chase of the bonds is an insurance
against loss of crops as well as a safe
interest bearing security
The governor has indicated his
readiness to include in the list of
most necessary improvements under
the loan fund, those for which bonds
are to be sold first, such undertake
ings as Maui folk shall decide to be
most necessary for this Island, especi-
ally II the bonds therefor can be sold
at home.