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9 June 1997. Meanwhile ;you are their attorney by law (see county charter quotation supra) and you have been served. Remains for me to provide the individual defendants with a copy of the complaint and summons pursuant to Rule 4(d) (6), (7) and (3), which can even be done by mail. As I had no individual addresses however I had the documer?ts delivered to the respective departments, where you interrupted individual delivery. I do not mind using the mail to do so, but you will then as their attorney have to provide me with their addresses, as hhas repeatedly been proposed inj Hawaii case law. This afternoon I have picked up the 6 copies of complaint and summons from Shigeka at the police station for a superfluous second service. When I went to the prosecutor's office to pick up the copies for Garcia and Smith, the latter happened to walk by, when I stood at the receptionist, and he said he would accept service from me and that he had already read the complaint, he thought it was a waste of my time to keep me running around like that and agreed that the court is only interested to know that the parties have indeed been served. He would call you to confirm accepted service. You have not mentioned the Mayor who has been served through his secretary and you don't mention him in your letter, however I was informed that his copy was forwarded to you. Friday you told men on the phone that you want to get to the merits of the case, and so do I. Then why all this hassle as you will agree that the fastest way to get copies to the people mentioned in your letter was through Shigeko and Portia, and service by delivery to these secretaries of police chief and prosecutor has always been acceptable in the past. It would not be in divorce procedures where a statute specifically provides for individual personal service, which is not the case here. In my opinion it violates Rule 1 HRCP, that mandates a "just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action", when you have me run to the sheriff who may have to make repeated trips into the country before he reaches each of the indicated defendants. But so be it. If anybody complains about late service I will have to refer them to you. Nothing personal of course; but I don't think you are right in your perception of service, which is costing me unnecessary money, while it does nothing to keep the system running more efficiently. If there are any more problems please phone me at 889-5587, where you can leave a message after the beep, even if there is no announcement because of power interruptions. Henry A. Ross, Plaint pro se, 2 ~/1L f..