The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-12-19

| part haWatians and those marked
other foreigners" have suffered q
slight decrease. while the japanese and
Chinese make up the Increase In the
! public schools
The great Increase In enrolment on
the part OF the japanese and Chinese
is due In part to the fact that great
number OF the children OF this class of
the people are just becoming of school
age, and in part to the fact that the
| japanese and Chinese put their chill
dren into school just as soon as the
law permits, and in many cases these
| children are enrolled before they reach
school age.
| There have been built and contracted
for during the past year IL public school
buildings, 80 schoolhouses, teachers
cottages, and 2 dormitories. These 80
school buildings contain 92 rooms
and furnish capacity for 4l40 pupils; 80
of these Al buildings replace buildings
/ out of repair and unfit for further use.
and are for the purpose of accommo-
| dating the increase in the school popu-
| lation. All of this has been possible
only by borrowing money and issuing
| bonds.
| The total number within school age,
| as nearly as can be ascertained, Is 49,
374, and the percentage of the total
population within school age. enrolled
in school, was GIG per cent; the aver
| age daily attendance of the enrolled pu-
pills in public schools, 81 per cent; the
average wages of the teachers in such
| schools per MONTH $5l: the number of
| public schoolhouses, 1874; the number of
| public school-teachers' cottages. 10. the
| total value of all the public school
| houses and teachers cottages, includ-
| ing land, was $4,000; the total value
| of all private school property, 1888, 900;
| the average cost of tuition in public
schools per annum is $l6S7, and the to-
| tai number of school days in the last
school year aggregated 1872.
| AT a special session of the Legislature
in 1903, appropriations for public works
were passed amounting to 2,397, ,27075;
upon consideration of the matter it was
deemed advisable to limit the expendi-
ture for such works to $2000.000, and
| bonds Were issued for that amount and
I disposed of; of such sum 81 965 $50 had
| been expended at the expiration of the
period ended June 80, 1905, leaving a
cash balance at that time to be eX-
pended during the next year of $34,320.
| The moneys expended covered i'm
provements of wharves and harbors,
construction of waterworks, storm and
sanitary sewers. public and educational
buildings, roads and bridges, and cleo
trio lights.
Only two of the aforementioned
works are directly revenue producing
| at this time, to wit, the waterworks,
! for which during the last year the re-
ceipts were $419 327.2S and the running
expenses s161, ,15S.S9, and the wharves
and harbors, with receipts of $279, 1927. .93
and cost of maintenance and repairs,
| s75, 1874
In carrying into effect public improve
meats IL has been the pO icy 10 pro-
vile permanent struo lures AMI to meie
careful preliminary investigations in
locating bridges and new roads To IA
cilitate the movement of shipping, a
contract has been entered into for the
dredging of new slip at the cost OF
$16S, ,000 and plans have been prepared
for new wharves Immediately adjacent
to the naval docks. During the fisca
year nearly 81 miles of new roads have
been constructed, the most important
work being the relocating of the main
reducing the grades to maximum OF
6 per cent.
No franchises have been granted
during the year for construction of rail-
roads but 1t was found necessary to can
eel an agreement entered into with the
| Kohala- Hiio Railroad Company on ac'
count Of it's failure to comply with th'
conditions stipulated when the worl
should be started.
Provision was made by the Legisla
, ture of this year for the care anc
preservation of the archives of Hawaii
Among them are original papers of thu
early Hawaiian chiefs, correspondence
relating to the diplomatic complica
tions with France and England, docu
ments concerning the recognition of tn
Kingdom of Hawaii by the Unite'
States, England, and France, and othe
papers relating to treaties with foreig
powers, the treaties themselves, beside
original papers relating to the Govern
ment.
> Shortly after annexation the Govern
ment dispatched a representative l
Hawaii to look up these document
|, with a view to having them transferre
to Washington; 1t was determined
however, to leave them in the Territory
on assurance that every effort woul
be made to secure a fireproof hall 70
their preservation, particularly as
i was claimed that their relation to Ian
titles was too important to allow ther
to leave the Islands.
c A substantial fireproof building
e now under construction in which thes
documents can be properly cared fo
l. and preserved for future generation
Is The Legislature has also provided fc
l. a Board of Commissioners Of Archive
= besides making small provision fc
s. carrying out the details of the worl
r although the commission has only bee
10 in existence few months. a saving
'u not less than $1,000 to the GovernmeI
c. will be effected through the discover
ot OF documents that establish the Co
Id ernment's claim TO certain lands in
ie case shortly to come before the court
er During the past year the energies
the division OF forestry have been larg
ly directed toward the creation OF 70
su est reserves on the several island
rn Much work OF a preliminary nature HI