The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-28
GRADS
CRITICIZED
The immigration Board
Detects Some
Flaws.

The regular weekly meeting of the
Board of Immigration was held yester-
dav morning at $3.50 in the board s Of
fee in the Magoon block. Commits
sioners Cooke, Craig and Garden and
Clerk Crabbe were present.
Several letters from mainland people
inquiring about the prospect of set
Ting on public lands, were read. There
We're communications from Idaho, Ok
lahoma and Washington. 1t was sug-
to the Promotion Committee, that or
ganization being in the habit of receiv-
ing them continually. ". E. Armstrong
of Boise City. Ida, wrote that he and
his large family would be glad to settle
here if the proper inducements were
offered. A Polish resident of Oklahoma
said he had between $500 and $1,000 to
invest and would like to come here IL
land conditions were favorable.
To this last inquiry Mr.. Cooke
thought it would be well to send the
writer copy of the proposition made
by the plantations to men who wished
to take up lands.
At this juncture Mr.. Cooke said he
would like to know what the govern
ment s policy would be for the next
six months or a year as to the opening
UP of public lands. He did not be-
lieve in making any misrepresenta-
lions. He thought the Governor and
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some definite and authoritative state
ment in this regard.
Mr.. Cooke suggested that at the
close of the meeting the board call up
on the Governor and get him to make
some statement regarding his policy
with regard to public lands. The Board
called upon Governor Garter shortly be-
fore 10 o'clock.
Clerk Crabbe read statements from
various plantations as to the men he
had sent out to work.
Kihei reported that of the twenty
four Porto Ricans received there, only
four had stayed. -Four men out of
seventeen stayed with The Makee Su
gar Company. Eight had been accused
of holding up a Portuguese and had
then vamoosed.
The commissioners agreed that this
was a discouraging state of affairs Olaa,
Kohala and Makawei had similar COM
plants to make.
G. H. Robertson of Brewer & Co.,
wrote that the manager of Waikiki
plantation had an unpleasant exper1
ence with fifteen Portuguese and Porto
Ricans. A dozen were merely hood
lums, who dressed f1ashily and did not
care to work He thought it was folly
to send such men to the plantations.
Mr. Robertson added that Waikiki
was a bad place to send this class of
young men to work as there were too
many saloons about.
Mr. Crabbe said that all the men re-
ported on as above, who had left the
plantations, had been blacklisted.
During the meeting the young men
graduates from Kamehameha School
were given scoring. 1t was agreed
by some of the members that they were
not practical when they left the school
and could not deliver the goods -
when it came to real work. Commits
sioner Craig said they were 'E1ot of
lolos," with especial reference to the
young fellows turned out of the me-
chanlcal department of the school.
Commi ssioner Cooke thought they had
too much booklearning and too little
practical instruction. He brought on
the discussion by stating that some
young men from Kamehameha school
had been offered a position in the me-
chanical department of plantation.
One young fellow wrote most won
derfully worded letter to show why he
had not stuck to his job. Clerk Crabbe
said the Kan boys could always show
proficiency when it came to making IA
speech. He added that they were not
doing practical work in the Kameha
meha School, Mr.. Craig said their in
struction was not practical. although
they had good instructors. He believed
the system of instruction was wrong
Mr.. Cooke agreed with Mr.. Craig in
this.