The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-01-10
SCHOOLS OF
TERRITORY
The Educational System
Described by
Carter.

Some peculiarities of the Hawaiian
public school system are related in the
following extract from Governor Car
ter Is annual report to the Secretary of
the Interior:
"Under the loan fund bill the de-
pertinent has been enabled to make
large number of improvements in the
school buildings. Many of these were
in 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 arso hiring cottages
| for the teachers.
"The conditions in the Territory of
Hawaii with regard to the residences
are peculiar. In the outer districts 1T
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 which is a modern town
lin Hilo and in WalIuku 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 1t IS
not desirable that the teacher should
be dependent for his house room upon
the plantation authorities, nor is 1T de-
sirabe that teacher who is to keep
tho 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 beer
or are going to be erected under the
loan act fund are, first, the Roya
School, n twenty-room building, which
] will cost $41,9l5. This will probabl.
: be completed by December. An ad
4 ditional building to the industrial
school at Waialee 70 accommodate OF
!. bows has been erected at cost of $40,
1856. At Waikiki, on the island OF
Maui, school which will grow int
the high school of that island is IL
, course of erection and will cost in tn,
neighborhood of $4,000. A new norma
school is to be erected in Honolulu
but has not yet been advertised, be
}. cause of the difficulty of obtaining
site. This site has now been settled
, upon and the building will be com
menced probably in September. Bid
for the erection of schoolrooms an'
N dormitories for the agricultural schoo
at Lahainaluna, island of Maui, ar
now published and the work upon tn
establishment will probably be com
menced early in September. A build
. ing to contain the commercial depart
ment of the high school has beef
> erected upon the high school grounds
, which are of considerable extent. i
may be stated that the present higl
: school is being conducted IN the man
! sion which was erected by Princes
Ruth and which afterwards reverted
to the high chiefess Bernice Pauah
Bishop, and from her estate it was pur
chased for it's present purpose. TIT
4 building IS a very handsome one an'
has very expensive decorations in thu
interior. The grounds are well planted
r and the whole situation is very pictur
esque. On the same grounds gram
r mar annex to the high school has beer
constructed, containing five rooms. An
other impol can't school which has beer
;. built is that at Lihue, island of Kauai
/. with six rooms"