The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-14
EDUCATION BOARD
Regular Weekly Meeting Held
Yesterday.
ABOUT KAUNAKAKAI SCHOOL SITE
Old Resolution Still Holds
Good.
ABOUT KAUNAKAKAI SCHOOL SITE
j. l.. Dumas Makes am InQuiry-J L.
M..Taggard and Wife Given
Positions by Board.

AT the regular weekly meeting of the
there were present the following:
President Cooper, Mrs. B. F. Dilling-
ham, Mrs. E. w. Jordan, II. S. Town
send, J. F. Scott and w. A. Bowen.
j., l.. Dumas was present at the
meeting for the purpose of obtaining
information regarding the number of
pupils allowed in the Practice School
The Board decided to allow Mr.. Du
mas to keep the number he already has
and to increase it, if possible, to a
number not exceeding so.
In regard to the site of the school
lot at Kaunakakai, President Cooper
reported that the following resolution,
passed July 81, 1896, still held good:
Resolved, That the trustees sell TO
the Board of Education the teachers
cottage at Kaunakakai for the sum of
500; and that the trustees convey TO
the Board, in exchange for the present
school site, piece of land in the neigh
borhood of such school lot, of an area
of half an acre, approved by the man
tc pay the sum of $40, to make the ex-
change equitable, the size of the pres
ent school lot being one-quarter of an
acre.
1t was moved, seconded and carried
that the exchange mentioned in the
said resolution be authorized, and that
Mr.. Meyers select said site and pro-
vide for the removal of the school
house.
Mr.. Scott said that here was a con-
dition in the Chinese boys school
which was very hard to meet. The
matter had been spoken of before,
but nothing had been done. Mr.. Wells,
the teacher, had taken all the raw lit
tie Cinnamon who had come to him
for admission. At present, there were
over 200 boys, ranging all the way
from to Is years of age; at the school
are two receiving rooms. The small
est boys are put into one, and the
remainder in the other. Mr.. Wells had
picked out ID or 16 of the great, awk-
ward fellows now present at the school,
and he now wants to know what to do
with them Will the Board provide
another teacher and another room?
Mr. Scott said that he had spoken
who was kind enough to offer free of
charge, room in his new building on
Chaplain lane. The Board could hire
the teacher Mr.. Scott recommended
that Mr.. Wolcott be employed as addi
tional teacher temporarily.
The Board ordered the deputy in
spector to reorganize the rooms and
to weed out all those pupils over the
school age.
Mr.. Bowen moved that the recon- |
made early in the meeting
by the inspector general be adopted,
and that Mrs. Kauhane be transferred
to KamaOa at the same salary, her
place at Waiohinu be taken by Mrs.
c.. F. True. Carried.
Mr. Townsend reported the receipt
of a letter from Mrs. Ferneaux, stat
ing her reasons for declining to accept
the position of teacher in the Olaa
School; also. the receipt of another
from Miss Elvira Richardson, telling
of the absolute refusal of her phy5i-
clan to allow her to accept the position
in the Hilo Select School, to which
she had recently been appointed by the
Board. This left the Hilo Select School
with only one teacher.
Mr.. Townsend further reported that
he had taken upon himself the author
ity of telling Mr.. Sturgeon to remain
at the school mentioned until further
orders. His action was acted upon
favorably by the Board.
At this point President Cooper left