The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-02-03

Mr.. EDITOR Justice to the Board of Education
requires that / should notice the " correction of
Mr.. Gulick in your last weeks paper, and as Mr.,
Gulick's correction was written without the
knowledge of what 1 had done in the premises, no
one will be more glad than he to have his state
ment corrected, if by it an unintential injustice has
been done. / ought TO have informed him of my
action, but was not careful enough to do so, not
thinking of the publication of the grant, which, in
ignorance of my action, he would of course deem
incorrect.
In explanation, 1 would briefly state that Mr..
Shipman, and subsequently Mr.. Gulick, taught a
school in Waiohinu, Kau, Hawaii, in a house be-
longing to the A. B. c. f. NJ, upon premises belong
ing to them.
They were also supported chiefly by the A. B. c. F. NJ, the
balance being made up by the church of which they were pas
tors. In 1859, the Board of Education, deeming the school a
public benefit, authorized the expenditure Of a portion OF the
Local school tax in repairs upon the house and seats and desks.
Mr. Shipman was in charge at this time. On his death Mr..
Gulick succeeded to the pastorate and the school, but was no,
aware that government funds had been expended IN seats and
repairs. In the spring Of 1865, the Evangelical Association re-
moved his school and him TO WaiaIua on Oahu. Qt had become
a Boarding School for giris) and Mr.. Guick removed the seats
and desks, intending to use them in fitting up his school room
at Waialua,. and thus save the funds Of the school, which were
derived from the \. B. c. z. NJ.
After seventeen Of the twenty seats and desks were already
removed to Honolulu, and the remaining three had been sent TO
the port tor shipment. the local school agent informed him that
they were government property aIIer some correspondence
Mr.. Gulck turned the matter over to the Hawaiian BoarI, aud
that Board passed the matter into my hands, as the financial
agent of the a. b. c. T. NJ 70 be adjusted with the Board Of
Education. Upon personal conference with the members OF the
Board, I suggested that they reinquish any claim to the seats
as they were so bulky, that it would be about as expensive 10
transport them to Kau as to procure new ones. They expressed
a willingness TO do so, but said they we're restrained by law, as
the local tax was TO be expended in the district for its benefit,
and these desks and seats belonged 10 the district, and the
Board vas not authorized TO grant any property Of the district
for the benefit Of any other locality. 1 then suggested that
from the school funds cOnfided by law 70 the discretion Of the
ag 70 81 ,biP suyyssrii"n t ,Inv TandTv % occlIn3 go me ua ,SoIet
granted sixty dollars to reimburse the district Of Kau for the
seats and desks taken away. In the meantime Mr.. Gulick had
provided ether seats for his school, so that these remain unused.
It will Be seen from the foregoing statementt that whilst Mr..
Guhck Is, as he says, the principal, treasurer and disbursiug
agen. OF the school, that the Board Of Education has granted
sixty dollars as q compensation to the Kau school for school
room furniture removed from the district for the Waialua school,
though. as seen, not used in it, and it has at least saved to the
funds Of the school whatever the expense Of returning the said
furniture might have been. The fault seems chiefly to have
been mine, in not informing Mr.. Quick Of the manner in which
the matter was finally settled hence, in justice TO all parties,
l felt bound to make this explanation.
Respectfully yours, g ". CAsTLK,