The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-04-10
REPORT ON
SCHOOLS
Various Improvements
Recommended
TWO YEARS. ESTIMATES
Committee on Buildings and Lands
Points out Necessity for
Larger Expenditures.

The following is the report Of the
committee on school buildings and
lands, filed yesterday:
In presenting the report on school
buildings and lands your committee has
been guided by the reports of school
agents and the Inspector General Of
Schools. We believe the estimates to-
be decidedly conservative and made
with a desire of economy in the eN-
penditure of public funds.
We would, however, respectfully sug
gest that there are two departments in
which governments can Ill afford to-
fall short in generosity. The recent
experience through which we have
not yet safely passed is so drastic that
all will be ready to admit that one of
these is the Department OF Public
Health; the other, we claim, Is that of
Public instruction. So far as lies in
our power, we owe to the rising gener-
alton, the coming men and women, well
developed minds in sound bodies.
With this thought in mind the
committee has prepared as careful a
statement as possible of the immediate
needs of our public schools, which we
herewith beg leave to submit:
Island Of Hawaii.
DISTRICT OF HILO.-At Pohaku-
puka a two-room school house is need
ed; estimated cost, $1,000. Hakalau
needs a new school house, the old one
being SO inferior and in need of con-
slant repairs; estimated cost, $1,000.
kaumana is a new settlement above
Hiio; a school of one room will be
ne,tip cd 81nOn
new building of one room is needed at
Waikea, the old building being unfit to
repair; estimated cost, $1,000. At Po-
hakupuka teachers cottage is need
ed; estimated cost, $500. A five-room
teachers cottage is needed at Homo
mu; estimated cost, $1,000.
Puma District.
The Olaa plantation extends along
the Volcano road for fourteen miles;
to meet the necessities of this locality
four schools will be need. Two of
these should have three rooms each
and the other two should have two
rooms each. The estimated number of
children connected with the plantation
is over 400 now. The estimated cost
of these buildings with the necessary
teachers cottages is $4,000. The new
Puma plantation calls for larger
school at Pahoa and Kapoha. At pres
ent the school is held in the church at
Puula, a very unsatisfactory arrange
ment. A building will also be needed
at Kamaili, to accommodate the chill
dren of this scattered plantation. Esti-
mated cost of these three buildings,
$500. A three-room teachers cottage
is needed at Kauaea; estimated cost,
$500. A five-room teachers cottage is
needed at Kapoho; estimated cost,
$1,000 A five-room teachers cottage
is needed at Pahoa; estimated cost,
$1,000.
Kau District.
In Kau a new building large enough
for 100 pupils is needed at Hilea. Three
rooms are necessary; estimated cost,
$500. An additional room for the
teachers cottage at Pahala is needed;
estimated cost, 5000.
South Kona District.
A new three-room building is re-
CURED at Hookena. The school agent
recommends that this building be
placed near the upper Government
road, as the people are moving up
from the beach; estimated cost, $500
Konawaena school is overcrowded and
should have double its present capac-
ity. Mr.. Townsend is of the opinion
that to replace this building with one
better suited to the needs of the school
would be better economy than to at
tempt to enlarge the present structure.
The committee recommend, therefore.
that new three-room building, large
enough to accommodate 100 pupils, be
erected here; estimated cost, $500.
The present school building could be
remodeled and made into a home for
the teachers; estimated cost, $500.
North Kona District.
A two-room school house is needed
at Kalaoa; estimated cost, with a.
teachers cottage of five rooms, $4,000.
Holualoa has outgrown its present
quarters, and calls for two buildings
having three rooms each and an as
sembly room; estimated cost, $4,000. A
one-room school house Is needed at
Makalawena; estimated cost, $500.
South Kohala District.
A new school house of one-room
should be built at Puako, and also al
three-room teachers cottage; cost
school house, $500; cost of teachers
cottage, 500; estimated cost, $500. A
crying need is for a school house and
teachers cottage ut Kawaihae. The
present buildings are too hopelessly
dilapidated to admit of repair. The
school should have one room and the
teachers cottage three rooms; estimat-
ed cost. $500.
North Kohala District.
There are in Kohala three small
schools OF from six to q dozen pupils |
each, and of course necessitating three |
teachers. These schools are situated
at Honoipu, Mahukona and Puuhue.
The Department owns no building at
either place, and no one of these ham
let's Is so located as to be convenient
for the children. 1t is suggested that
one-room school house be built at
some central point, II the superintend-