The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-03-31
REPORT
OFJUDD
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ing by tine day. AS these expenditures
amour: yearly TO such a sum, there is
no reason why the department should
not adopt culinary business precau-
tons in keeping track of these matters
Mr.. Young clearly shows in his re-
port, already referred to, how the task
of watching the appropriations for the
department available and unexpended
may be simplifed by remodeling the
detail book.
do not think I put it too strongly
when / say that the idea in the de-
partment seems to have been Chow
much we can spen>. or squeeze out, -
and not show far can we make this
money CO.. (See Miss Davison's
statement. for instance.)
Men able to do carpentry and paint
ing were paid $3.50 day some months
and $3.50 per day other months, when
they worked for the department at
these trades. These same men at other
times apparently were satisfied to fill
places as janitors for 5000 or less per
month
BOOK DEPARTMENT.
That the department has to deal in
school books, Mr.. Atkinson has OBJ
jected to often in the past, and states
that if the department were free from
this burden, it would result in greater
efficiency in other matters. He does
not consider that he is responsible for
the conduct of the book business of the
department, and says that "he pre-
sumes the Secretary is the person re-
sponsible. He az. not know whether
wall, Nichols G. Co. or the Hawaiian
News Company owed the department
anything for books. when one company
was indebted to the extent of $l67.50
and the other $500 Practically, he
has let the book business run itself,
without his supervision. Several hun
dred dollars are due the department,
according to the ledger kept by Miss
Daisy Smith. the book clerk. Credits
owing certain persons appear also
this is explained in Mr.. Young's re-
port.
Section 220 of the Revised Laws al
lows the department to furnish books
to private schools and to other persons
| for educational purposes. construe
this to be for cash. Mr.. Atkinson states
that he has refused to sell books to pri-
vate schools and that the books are
kept for the pupils of the public schools
only.
That the book sales should be con-
Quoted, so long as this is a branch of
the department s work, with the same
care and method employed in an or
binary mercantile house seems, perhaps,
too obvious to mention. Whatever Mr..
Atkinson may have considered his re-
lations to the book department, 1t seems
to me that the general supervision of
that branch of the department work
belongs to the Superintendent, as "the
chief administrative officer of the de-
partment.
SCHOOL LANDS.
Professor Alexander has kindly writ
! ten me letter, giving brief history
| of the school lands, which transmit
with this report. He states that the
book referred to by Mr.. Atkinson as
containing a record in the depart
ment s office of school lands, was made
under his supervision in 1897. A few
! of the transfers OF school lands have
been entered in this book, but the rec
ord is far from being complete. Prac-
tieally nothing has been done since
1900 to straighten out these matters,
| except to locate a few of the school
| lands.
Some OF the school lots and lands are
under lease. The letters from DIR. Rod
| gers, transmitted herewith, show that
no proper account has been kept OF
these matters, and the obvious neces-
| sity of a proper rent roll Of the lands
from which revenue should be collect
ed. Presumably many of the school
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