The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-12-29
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Tho regular weekly meeting ~ the
Board 81 immigration was held yester-
day morning at $3.50 w the board = o.
Gee ia ihe Mago1n block COMMITS.
sioncrs Cooke. craig and Garden and
Clerk Crahbe were present
Several letters from mainland people
inquiring about The prospect of set
ling on pnhiic lands, were read. There
were communications from Idaho, Ok
lahoma and Washington. II was sug-
gostcd that such letters ho turned over
To the Promotion Committee, that Or
ganization being in the habit Of receiv-
ing them continually. ". T.. Armstrong
of Boise city. Ida. wrote that he and
his large family would le glad to settle
here IL the proper inducements were
offered 4 Polish resident of Oklahoma
said he had between $500 and $1,000 to
invest and would like TO come here II
land conditions were favorable
To this last inquiry Mr.. Cooke
thought il would be well TO send tho
writer a copy of the proposition made
by the plantations TO men who wished
to take up lands.
At this juncturc Mr.. Cooke said he
would like TO know what the govern
ment's policy would be for the next
six months or year as TO the opening
up of public lands. He did not be-
liove in making any pisrepresents-
tions. lie thought the Governor and
the Land Commissioner should make
some definite and authoritative state
mcnt in this regard.
Mr.. Cooke suggested that at the
close of the meeting the board call up
oh the Governor and get him to make
some statePent regarding his policy
with regard to public lands. The Board
called upon Governor Carter shortly be-
fore 10 o'clock.
Clerk Crabbe read statements from
various plantations as to the men he
had sent out to work.
Kihei reported that of the twenty
four Porto Ricans received there, only
four had stayed. -Four men out of
seventeen stayed with the Makee Su-
gar Company. Eight had been accused
of holding up Portuguese and had
then vamoosed.
The commissioners agreed that this
was discouraging state of affairs. Olaa,
Kohala and Makaweli had similar com
plants to make.
G. II. Robertson of Brewer & Co.,
wrote that the manager of Waikiki
plantation had an unpleasant expert
ence with fifteen Portuguese and Porto
Ricans. A dozen were merely hood
lums, who dressed fiashily and did noe
care to work. He thought il was folly
to send such men to the plantations.
Mr. Robertson added that Waikiki
was bad place to send this class of
young men to work MS there were too
many saloons about.
Mr.. Crabbe said that all the men re-
ported on as above, who had left the
plantations, had been blacklisted.
During the meeting the young men
graduates from Kamehamcha School
were given scoring 1t was agreed
by some of the members that they were
not practical when they left the school
and could not deliver the goods"
when it came to real work. Commits
sioner Craig said they were "lot Of
lolos," with especial reference to tho
young fellows turned out of the me-
chanical department of the school
Commissioner Cooke thought they had
too much book learning and too little
practical instruction. He brought ON
the discussion by stating that some
young men from Kamehameha school
had been offered n position in the me-
chanical department of a plantation
One young fellow wrote q most won
derfully worded letter to show why he
had not stuck to his job Clerk Crabbe
said the Kan boys could always show
proficiency when it came to making
speech. He added that they were nos
doing practical work in the Kameha-
A IL.
struction was not practical, although
they had good instructors. He believed
the system of instruction was wrong.
Mr.. Cooke agreed with Mr.. Craig in
this.