The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-07-14
Afternoon.

Afternoon.
The House re-assembled at 10, and
went into Committee OF the Whole, Rep.
Kamauoha IN the chair, on the further
consideration Of the Appropriation bill.
Support of English Hawaiian and Com
mon Schools, postponed. Industrial and
Reformatory School, Kenoneula, Kappa
lama, $50 900.
Rep. Nakaleka asked the Minister of
Interior if any boy had ever been thor
oughly reformed there. The Minister
could not give the Information. The hon.
member proceeded to say that the institu-
ton had been tried a great many years,
and no good had come of it. The Kane
hameha schools will answer the purpose
better II a boy is bad and needs to be
locked up, it is better to send him to
prison. Noble Waterhouse moved the
item pass as III the bill. Carried. Build
ing and repairs OF school houses, post
poned. Repairs and permanent improve
mentS to boarding schools, $4,000; sta
tiOnery and incidentalS, $500; messenger
and book clerk, 81 800, passed Nine
scholarships at Oahu College, or any de-
partment thereof, 1920, passed. Noble
Waterh0use moved to insert ten scholar
ships, kamehameha schools, $500. Rep.
KaWainui said by and by somebody will
want scholarships in HiO Boarding School
Rep. Kinney moved an amendment to
Noble Warehouses; motion, to read
twelve scholarships for native Hawaiians
at Kamehameha or other suitable sClOOls,
to be chosen for superior scholarships,
three from each of the now existing Judi
cial Circuits, 81 900. As the policy of send
ing Hawaiian youths to be educated abroad
had been practically abandoned, something
ought to take its place.
10 W oHnOtpH
Noble Townsend moved to insert an
item: Normal Department in connection
with Fort Street School, $4,000 Minister
Ashford asked if Fort Street School has not
been in normal condition for some time
past. Noble Townsend said that would do
for pun. lie thought the time had come
when the country should take some VIgOr-
Gus steps in this direction. The teaching
force of the country is almost wholly from
abroad. The question had been asked if Il |
teacher in government school was Il gov !
officer. To decide this in the |
affirmative would bring teachers under the |
rule that all government officers should be |
Hawaiian citizens, and the effect would be |
the closing of the best schools in the King
dom. Persons are growing up here who |
are fully capable, If the opportunity is
given, OF qualifying themselves for posi-
tons as teachers at present almost eXclu-
slvely filed by foreigners. They ought to
have a chance to qualify themselves. The
Institutes held few months ago have been
productive, already, of good results. But
work done in this desultOry way, though
giving good results, does not give enough
If them. Fort Street School has been
brought up to such point OF efficiency by
competent trained teachers that whoever
succeeds the present incumbent must be a
person OF superior qualifications and able
o conduct such a school as is here pro-
,Osed. 1t will be for the benefit of the
OuntTy to Introduce Normal work and
Fort Street School is best adapted for it at
resent. Such work will train teachers for
he primary departments throughout the
who IN their turn, Will be able
0 take prlncipalshipS. Foreign teachers
re not permanen 1t can hardly be said
hat the majority of teachers who come s
ere from the coast stay an average OF
lOre than two years. No matter how well
uaifed they may be and however we'll
cquainted with the principles and practice
+ the profession, the conditions with which
hey have to deal are radically different
ON anything they could ever have exper-
'nced, and the entirely new application of
fundamental principles that has to be made
ere, produces results for the first year
lat a trained teacher, experienced in ex- .
ting circumstances, would be ashamed Of
n such cases, the second years work is
etter than the first, and the third is a still G
rcater Improvement on the second
Noble Baldwin SAID this is an important 7
latter. He agreed with the remarks of
Oble Townsend, and moved 1t be referred
the Committee on Education. Rep
akaleka asked what about the support of
lose attending the proposed Normal j
;hool. Appropriations will soon be want
| for that purpose and then we will have 4
lother kaimilOa on our hands
The motion TO refer to Committee was
iopted.
Photographs of Hawaiian scenery for
elbOurne International Exhibitions 500.
mister Ashford said that Mr.. Williams,
photographer proposed to exhibit at the
elbourne Exhibition p albums containing
10 photographs, Sin. 12in, and 80 meas |
ring 18in. 22In., framed, showing ria > p
allan scenery and other objects of inter il
It. Since this had been determined on. it
al also been proposed to send the same to
re Grand Army Reunion and to the Ohio
alley Centennial Exhibition, which VIII
,qu1re larger appropriation H there -
re moved the amount be changed to $500. =
arTied
Minister Thurston moved to insert an
EN- Advertising Hawaii abroad by
eans of periodicals descriptive of the
)untTy, $1,000. This proposed expendi-
Ire Is based on proposition made to the
overnment by the publisher OF the Para
Sc OF the Pacific, backed by petition. {
it'll AL signatures, presented to the
ouse on the 9th instant The object is
attract tourists to the Islands. Every
)urlst who comes spends from 5000 to
100. Nothing brings more money here