The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-16

In the public schools the Hawaiians
and whites show : small increase, the
part Hawaiians nd those marked
other foreigners have suffered a
slight decrease, viii 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 a 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 Al public school
buildings. so schoolhouses, teachers
cottages, and 2 dormitorieS. These 80
school buildings contain 80 rooms
and furnish capacity for 4140 pupils; 80
of these IL 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, s51; the number of
public schoolhouses, 1874; the number OF
public school-teachers' cottages. 70; 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 $16.87, and the to-
tai number of school days in the last
school year aggregated 1872.
AT special session of the Legislature
in 1908, appropriations for public works
were passed amounting to 1891, 27O.75;
upon consideration of the matter it was
deemed advisable to limit the expendf-
ture for such works to 1000, 000 and
bonds We're issued for that amount and
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 S34, 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 s419. 327.2S and the running
expenses 1851, 1850, and the wharves
and harbors. with receipts of $279,327.93,
and cost of maintenance and repairs,
S75, 497.S4.
In carrying into effect public improve
naItS IL has been the Pc icg 10 Pro-
vide permanent structures 4ni 10 msFe
careful preliminary investigations IN
locating bridges and new roads. To IA
cilitate the movement of shipping,
contract has been entered into for the
dredging of a new slip at the cost OF
s16S. 600. and plans have been prepared
for new wharves Immediately adjacent
to the naval docks. During the hscal
wear nearly 81 miles Of new roads nave
been constructed. the most important
work being the relocating Of the main
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