The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-23
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CORNER FORT AND MERCHANT STREETS.

M EKSfANl 81 KEEIS.
Then 1 have constant report from the
local school agent. Then there is con-
slant correspondence
Would it be possible for a teacher
who has left the service for him or her
to say they had been discharged with
out cause or reason?"
Il don't think so. 1 know of no such
case"
As remember from what you said,
teachers are not removed or discharged
except on consultation with the COM
missioners?''
Yes. In some cases I don't think
it should go on record. There have
been cases when a teacher was i'm
moral
Mr.. Atkinson went on to say that it
would be an injustice in after years
for any one to dig up out of a report
or record, such and such evidence
against them.
Does Mr.. Davis have any knowledge
or control over proposed improvements
in the schoolhouses ?"
Except by reporting what he sees. :"
LAS 1 understand the system under
erected, any charge of architectural
extravaganza against yourself or the
department would be unjust in that
you have no responsibility in the mat
ter
We'll, I have approved the plans,
but there was no responsibility upon
me to approve them. 1 merely told the
Superintendent of Public Works that
I of
rooms. etc. If there was any archi-
tecturaI extravaganza it was certainly
not for me to prune them down.
How close d personal investigation
are you able to follow improvements
going on in the various schoolhouses
nea- Honolulu, except through the
school agent
There is not schoolhouse have
not ridden to while Improvements are
going on, except some minor improver
,nents. 1 went several times to the
Royal and Normal schools
! IF the Maemae school for instance
had been painted who would have the
authority to make the contract?"
| The school agent"
cit is the ordinary procedure that
that contract be made after confer
ence with you:''
| Certainly, that is the system; she
comes to me and says we have so
much money and we can afford to do
so much work on the Maemae school
and I say go ahead
Would she have authority to go
ahead without getting your consent ?'
NO, sir. 1 don't know that she has
ever done so. 1 have written to all the
elnr, dc IN Coz
they must do nothing unless they ap-
! ply first at the central office. In form
er times they took the bit in their teeth
and ran it as they pleased and L had
to have a circular letter written about
| it,"
LAS far as you are aware then, when
| the question of improvements comes
up, you personally investigate the
| case
L don't say always go to the place
but I do to some extent. L rely on
the school agent and on the principal
of the school,
do you take up personally the ques-
ton of whether the price paid IS aQe-
quate or not, or rely upon the judg-
ment of the school agent?'
Sometimes the school agent speaks
smaller matters she doesn't. If it is a
job say of $3.50 or $500 she would come
and talk to me about it. If it is put
ting in two or three windows or frames
she would go ahead with the work.
after these Improvements are made
and the time comes to pay do you rely
upon the statements of the school
! agent that the work has been salts
factorily done?"
Yes; in some cases I examine the
work 1 would like to point out to
you that there are improvements made
in Kau and on Kauai for instance, that
1 must rely upon the honor Of the peo-
pie who are taking charge of these
particular repairs and can do nothing
but accept their statements"
Il was asking you particularly about
the district If Honolulu
yes, I know, but was pointing out
what was true of other places, might
be true of Honolulu"
1.-THE question of janitors, who is the
superior executive officer-say of the
Maemae SCHOOL,"
The school agent.
"Janitors are not under the jurisdic-
ton of the head of the school?"
: The school agent appoints them aft