The Hawaiian gazette., 1875-09-15

I not the appointment Will prove credltable 70
1 all concerned.
A CORRESPONDENT, who appears to be
posted about what he writes, calls attention
to the fact that the Board of Health, as now
composed, is an illegal body, because not con-
stituted in accordance with the law, which re-
quires that it consist of three instead Of five
members. The point appears TO be well taken,
as the following is the law bearing on the
question:
There shall be appointed by the KING In Privy
Council upon the nomination OF the Minister OF the
Interior, board of health for the Kingdom, consist
ing Of three persons, who shall serve during the
Knees pleasure, and be charged with the general
oversight and care OF the public heath."-Fs1lai
Go de, Chap. 60; Sci.
The above section corresponds with section
27s of the Civil Code, word for word. Now if
the board is Illegally constituted, the error
should at once be rectifed. Our correspon-
dent states that the board consisted under the
previous administration Of but three members,
and by referring to the calendar for 1873. we
find it was the case. Why the change has
been made is not clear, and the number Of
members in the board now evidently is not in
conformity with the law, as quoted above.
THE recent action of the Board f Health,i in
its efforts to suppress the selling of medi-
cines without license, has naturally created
considerable feeling in the community, more
especially as the parties against whom its &C
ton is aimed have the confidence of the natives
and the sympathy of large part of the foreign
population. One of them-Rev. DR.. Lowell
Smith-has practiced among the natives for
some forty years, and probably understands
their complaints sufficiently well to enable him
to treat most cases which come to him as well
as regularly-educated practitioners. At least
so thought DR.. F. W. Hutchinson, who fire.
quently admitted that he was a safe and use
full adviser of the natives in their ordinary ills
The American missionaries, from the time they
first arrived here in 1870, have acted as medi-
cal advisers to the natives, and still do it. even
if they have to do it gratuitously. This is per-
fectly right and proper, and their advice and
ANuhA IT.
stored health to the suffering and poor aborigi-
mes, who with all that has been and is being
done for them are rapidly wasting away. If
the only point involved is the right to sell
without license, then the friends /
1f the parties prosecuted no doubt stand ready /
70 contribute the sum needed But when the |
ssue is that of SURPRISING the labor of those
who are prompted in their course chiefly by
benevolent impulses, no arbitrary acts should
be permitted to prevail. The entire native and |
oreign population will be a unit on this point.
A PLANTER desires US to again urge the
Importation of laborers, and states that if he
iad fifty more men his sugar crop could be
doubled at once We think that the admins
ration is fully alive to this important matter
# more labor, and find on inquiry that it is
making special efforts to procure them. In
tructions have been given to the Hawaiian
Jonsul at Hong Kong, guaranteeing twenty
i've dollars passage money for every able
'odied Chinese immigrant landed here, by
NY sailing vessels. Also an offer has been
nade to the Pacific Mail Company to pay the
'assage of one hundred Chinese or japanese
immigrants landed at this port, monthly,
y their steamers, at the above-named rate,
ay 1900 laborers per annum, to include women
nd children, under certain conditions specified
n detail. This action shows that the ad-
ninistratiOn is not passive in the matter.
till these labOrers are needed here nol1
nd cannot come too soon. Probably FIVE
undred, if landed here this month, could find
at once on our sugar and rice
limitations. The Japanese especially are high
: spoken of by their employers, and it is to be
oped that more of these may be induced to
iigrate hither. They more readily conform
} the habits and mode of life of foreigners,
nd appear to get along with the native race
cry well.