The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-05-20
biennial REPORT
Of the President Of The Board Of Educdtio
to the Legislative assembly Of 1868,


of the Board Of Education. for the biennia
term closing on the 3lst of March, 1868.
Common Schools.
The number of Common Schools on the Is
of January of the present year was 2l9, anC
the average number of children attending wa,
62lS, of whom 34s7 were boys, and 273l were
girls. In 80 of these schools the sexes have
been separated, &c for the instruction of girl;
exclusively. and &c for that of boys exclusive
". A greater number of these schools nigh
undoubtedly have been instituted but for the
insutieiency of the district school funds of the
several districts, the difficulty of finding com
petent school mistresses, and in a few places
the supineness and inability of the parents to
appreciate the benefits of such division.
The want of new and suitable school house:
is still very much felt in many of the districts
To remedy this evil, however, so far as in the
Board lay, with its limited appropriations, il
has contributed 81 ,413.04 towards the erection
of new houses for the Common Schools. The
parents have also in many places acted very
literally in this regard and in the districts
where the school funds would admit of such
expense, this want has been attended to.
With these combined exertiOns, however, the
Board has only been able to provide 40 new
houses, leaving AZ yet to be built, and several
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of these houses are all within districts unable
on account of the insutiiciency of the school
tax, and not seldom, the poverty of the pa
rents, to provide for their erection, the Board
requests an extra appropriation of about
s., 900.
There is another and most important subject
il connection with the common schools to
which l would call the attention of honorable
members of the Legislative Assembly. 1t is
well known that the sole support of the com
mon schools throughout the country is derived
from the school-tax, personal tax of 81 per
annum, levied on every adult male between
the ages of twenty and sixty years, residing
within this or that district. and that the pro-
ceeds of this tax as collected within the limits
of any given district, is the only fund from
which the common schools in such district are
maintained. Now it so happens, that out of
the twenty-four districts in the country, there
are only six in which this tax is sufficient for
the administration of the common schools with
in them. In the remaining eighteen districts,
in order to keep the schools in operation at
least two hundred and twenty-four days in
the year, and pay all other necessary expenses,
there is an absolute collective deficiency in the
proceeds of the school-tax of u little more than
$4,000 per annum, varying in different dis
triets from Sal up to 81 ,0lO per annum. Hence
in those districts the time of schooling is neees-
sarily curtailed from five days per week, as
contemplated in the instructions of the Board
to its Agents, to four, three, OF two, or else
broken up by long and frequent vacations.
As this is difficulty of pecuniary nature,
over which the Board has no control, and
which it has no means to remedy, it feels no
hesitation, and considers it a solemn duty, to
apply to the honorable Legislature for an an
nual grant in aid Of the common schools, Of
say IS, 900, and the Board feels confident that
the honorable members will not refuse their
concurrence in a measure on which the future
intelligence and prosperity of the Hawaiian
people so vitality depends.
high Schools Conducted iH the Hatoaiian Lam
guage, Supported or Assisted By the Cor
eminent.
Lahainaluna.-Ths institution continues in
a fourishing condition. One hundred and ten
scholars have been enrolled during the past
year, of whom SIS are at present in actual at
tendance. Its cost to the Board during the
two years expiring March 3lst, 1868, has been
81 ,396.40. More attention has been paid to
the acquisition of the English language, and
to industrial and agricultural pursuits and
mari ed improvement both in the scholars
and in the lands of the Seminary has been
the consequence.
Hiio Boarding School for Boys.-This school
has maintained its high reputation, and has
proved itself valuable recruiting ground for
competent teachers in the common schools. 1t
receives annually from the Board of Education
the sum of 5000, and its assistant teachers
are paid from the district school fund of Hilo-
Glasses in the English language are also taught
in this school, and with commendable pro-
gress.
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gudge.
There is but one institution of this class
the Oahu College at Kapunahou. 1t is a char
tered institution and partly endowed by the
Hawaiian Government, who appoints two of
its Trustees. The Government also maintains
three annual scholarships at this school. The
number of students attending the College is
sixty -one, of whom forty-six are boys and fif-
teen are girls. The annual examinations and
reports of the committees appointed by the
President of the Board of Trustees, will in
form your honorable body of the condition
and prospects of this institution.
boarding Schools for Boys Conducted in the
English Language.
Or Maui.-At Lahaina, Rev. G.. Mason's
School, under his own personal supervision,
numbers twenty -four scholars. The Board of
maintains four scholarships at this
school.
On 0ahu.-St. Adams College, near Pauoa,
under the supervision and tuition of Rev. c..
w. Turner, numbers sixteen scholars, of whom
six are schooled at the expense Of the Board
Of Education.
During the month of March last, these two |
schools were merged into one located at st. |
Adams College, near Pauoa. under the super
vision and tuition of Rev. g. Mason, assisted |
by Rev. c. W. Turner.
The Ahuimanu College at KoolaupOLo, I'M
der the supervision Of Rev. r. A. Walsh, num-
Ders forty ssholars. The Board of Education
maintains one scholarship at this school
On Kausi.-At Koloa, Rev. d. Dole's School,
lnder his own supervision and tuition, num-
Ders eleven scholars. No parents at Koloa
laving been found willing to surrender their
children to be educated by the Board of Edu-
,ation. Mr.. Doles School has as yet received
10 assistance from the Board in the shape Of
The Board Of Education takes pleasure in
expressing its satisfaction at the condition and
Progress of all the aforesaid schools, and only
egrets that the limited means at its disposal
will not admit of its assisting them. or the in
titution of other similar schools, in a greater
Measure.
Boarding School for Giris Conducted in he
English Language.
On Hawaii.-Mrs. L. g. Lyons School, at
Y aimea, numbers six scholars. Supported by
uition fees, and receives no aid from the
Board of Education.
On Maui.-Lahaina. The English Sisters
'ehool, under the superintendance of Sister
phoebe, S. NJ, numbers thirty-seveh scholars,
nd is supported by tuition fees, and by cap
tation fee from the Board of Education,
mounting for the two years past TO Sl,4S0.
Makawao Female Seminary, under the su-
ervision Of Rev. J. P. Green, numbers fifty
hree scholars. Is supported by tuition fees.