The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-09
SCHOOLS Of
TERRITORY
The Educational System
Described by
Carter.

Some pecuIlarltIeS OF the Hawaiian
public school system are related in the
following extract from Governor Car
| ter s annual report to the Secretary of
the Interior:
''Under the loan fund bill the de-
partment has been enabled to make a
large number of improvements in the
school buildings. Many of these were
in a very dilapidated state and had to
be removed in order to give the proper
accommodation for the ever increasing
number of pupils in the Territory. In
several cases the department was under
the expense of hiring houses to be used
as schoolrooms and a1so hiring cottages
for the teachers.
''The conditions in the Territory of
Hawaii with regard to the residences
are peculiar. In the outer districts it
is in many cases practically impossible
for teachers either to find domiciliary
accommodations or board Thus the de-
partment has to build its own cottages
In the past there have been many cases
where able and desirable teachers were
perfectly prepared to take up the work
of instruction, even though they were
isolated from many of the desirable
things of life, but they found it was
absolutely impossible to obtain even
house room or board. Consequently their
services were lost to the department.
In Honolulu-wh is a modern town
in Hilo and in Wa11uku there is not
the necessity of supplying teachers
with accommodations and they are not
so supplied, but in the country districts
it has been absolutely imperative. 1t
must be thoroughly plain to anyone
who considers the matter for moment
that at the plantation schools it is
not desirable that the teacher should
be dependent for his house room upon
the plantation authorities, nor is it de-
sirable that a teacher who is to keep
the dignity of his position should be
housed in the same way the laborers
are. This accounts for the number of
teachers cottages which have been re-
Gently erected.
''The main schools which have been
or are going to be erected under the
loan act fund are, first, the Royal
School, twenty-room building, which |
Will cost $41, 915. This will probably !
ditionaI building to the industrial |
school at Waialee 70 accommodate 80 |
boys has been erected at a cost of $1O,- |
1855 At Waikiki, on the island of |
Maui, a school which will grow into |
the high school of that island is in |
course of erection and will cost in the |
of $23, 900. A new normal |
school is to be erected in Honolulu,
but has not yet been advertised, be-
cause of the difficulty of obtaining a
site. This site has now been settled |
upon and the building will be com
menced probably in September. Bids
for the erection of schOOlrooms and |
for the agricultural school
at Lahainaluna, island of Maui, are
now published and the work upon the
will probably be com
nenced early IN september. A bulld-
ng to contain the commercial depart
nent of the high school has been
erected upon the high school grounds,
which are of considerable extent. 1t
nay be stated that the present high
school is being conductor IN the man
ion which was erected by Princess
Ruth and which afterwards reverted
o the high chiefess Bernice Pauahi
Bishop, and from her estate it was Pur-
hased for its present purpose. The
building is a very handsome one and
as very expensive decorations IN the
Interior. The grounds are well planted
nd the whole situation is very plctur-
sque. On the same grounds gram /
lar annex to the high school has been
INSTRUCTED, containing five rooms An
Their important school which has been
uilt is that at Lihue, island of Kauai,
nth six rooms