Every Sunday, “Back in the Day” looks at an article that ran on this date in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The items are verbatim, so don’t blame us today for yesteryear’s bad grammar.
———
Members Want To Know If Federal Aid System Maps Are In Washington
Members of the public works committee of the board of supervisors will request Lyman H. Bigelow, territorial highway engineer, to inform them whether maps showing the proposed new federal aid road system for the territory have been sent to Washington with suggested allotments from the $880,000 federal aid fund.
Such was the decision at their meeting late Monday after an informal discussion in connection with the vote schedule for the board meeting tonight on Mayor Fred Wright’s veto of the resolution which would protest to Washington the plan for the $880,000 allotment by Governor Lawrence M. Judd during the 1931 legislative session.
Under the governor’s recommendation, the new system would include two stretches of road on Kauai. The board of supervisors and the mayor are opposed to any allotment to Kauai.
“I don’t care how you gentlemen vote on my veto,” the mayor said, “but it seems to be that we should do something to see if the information that has reached us, of maps having been sent to Washington with suggested allotments from the $880,000, is true. I suggest that we ask the territorial highway engineer the question pointblank.”
The suggested was unanimously adopted.
“I think we should do everything possible to see that Oahu gets her just share of $600,000,” Mr. Hughes declared.
Members of the committee also suggested that Mr. Bigelow be requested to reply on the program of projects outlined to him by the city and county which it desires financed from the $880,000 fund. It was placed in his hands last Friday.
In the presence of Mayor Wright, Supervisors John Hughes and George Denison reiterated their decision to vote to override his veto. Both contended that the governor’s recommendation of the new system, which would include Kauai, would as a matter of course be approved, therefore a protest should be filed beforehand.
