The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-18
MANY PARENTS ARRESTED
ROW OVER SCHOOL MATTERS AT
HAUULA.
One Faction Trying to Gust Christian
Andrews From His School-Teacher
Sustained by Board.

EauuCdllOll at f1auula is accompanied
with difficulty and even the strong arm
of the law has been called upon to
compel parents to have their .chidren's
minds taught how to shoot The trouble
is due to a misunderstanding between
Christian Andrews the teacher of the
public school on one hand and Rev
Nuuhiwa and many more families on
the other. They want the teacher GUST
ed but Mr.. Andrews proposes to stand
by his guns and like the immortal
Lawrence ne may be downed him but
he will go Gown crying Don't give up
the school,"
What reony caused the trouble is
hard to determine but in several petit
tions which the parents living in that
district sent to the Board of Educa-
ton they complained that Mr. Andrews
was forcing their children to work for
him. According TO their story he was
believer in the practical education
practicel by Wakeford Squeers. After
learning how to spell ak, C1op and
wood Andrews would send the little ones
into his bnck yard and compel them
to chop the wood. With others as soon
as the pupils had learned to, spell pig
hen and chase they were sent into the
yard to keep the neighbors domestic
pets from digging up the flowers. The
petitioners also wanted to be allowed to
start a private school and send their
children where chores would not be
/ made a part of school routine.
Inspector General Townsend was sent
to Investigate the matter but he report
ed to the Board that there was not
much in the complaint. The Board re-
/ Gently notified the petitioners to this
effect and received a reply from one of
them named Kahue.
! Kahue sent a communication to the,
Board in which he claimed that Town
send had not conducted thorough or
an impartial investigation. This COM
! municatiOn which is a masterpiece in
the art of ambiguity reads in part:
Your petitioners on the morning of
Mr.. TownseLds investigation gathered
: at the HauuiG Court Couse for the pur-
pose of proving our statement Of the
/ matter
Mr.. Townsend saw Mr. Andrews
first and got his side of the story. On
MI. Townsehd's returning to the court
yard he ordered his buggy hitched at
once. He asked us in regard to the
| working of our children. We told him
that we lid not like the idea of Mr..
Andrews putting our children to work
in his own land, for which no doubt in
our mind that he took Mr.. Andrews
part by stating to use that was only
a small matter.
TT may be a small matter to him,
for the simple reason that be first got
his information from Mr.. Andrews in
! WnlCn no OOuDI ne ueIenueO nlTnSelT
(Andrews). What If Mr.. Townsend
spent an hour or so in getting our side
of the case. We would have taken him
to the spot where the work had been
performed hy our children for his own
astisfaction. We consider it his duty
even though ii took him a week here
to find out the facts in the case. There
is no doubt in our mind that Mr. An
drews told him, the reason of his put
ting the children to work on this prop
erty in question that it was a govern
ment land, but he failed TO state the
truth of the case. Further he may
have stated because of the goats, pigs
and chickens of near neighbors COM
ing and destroying what was planted
by the children, that he stopped culti-
waiting on the lot near the school house.
But consider this, if such was the
case why did not the goats, pigs and
chicken of neighbors destroy the soug-
ham that was planted in the lot for his
own use? Was 1t not for the simple
| reason that he obtained the property
in question from Henry Smith by lease
that he worked our children on 1t for
his own benefit? Does your honorable
, board allow any teacher to take schoo
childen during school hours and put
them to work cleaning and cultivatine
, their own land?"
Mr.. Andrews has strong views of his
own apparently and he does not hesi'
tate to express his opinion of the lead
, ers of the opposition. In communities
, ticn which he addressed the Board un'
t, der date OF September II he wrote as
follows:
!, Months ago petitions against ms
were circulated. Signatures were OBJ
, tanned by subterfuge. Rev. Sol. d
Nuuhiwa told the natives that the peti'
tion would be of no avail If his sigma
ture did not appear at the bottom. Sc
he was isked to sign. Now
that two of his signatures were of nc
avail, he has taken the law into his OWE
hands; he has started private schoo
of his own. He is the prime factor II
, this unlawful movement.
started scnool last Monday with bui
35 pupils: 60 are up at Rev. 5. ID. Nuu
hiwa's residence going to school there
J No certificate of release was given no
, would / ever think of giving one.
: had them, I mean the parents of the g
pupils arrested for not sending thei
|, children to school and Mrs Nuuhiw'
, (head teacher) and L. X. Naone assist
. anti likewise for accepting pupils from
I my school without a proper release.