The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-10

of the other proceedings related to
dealings with teachers.
Those present We're Superintendent
w H. Babbitt, Mrs E. w. Jordan,
Mrs. H. H Wilcox and w. r. Earring
ton, commissioners, and Miss Daisy
Smith, secretary.
i DETAILS OF TEACHERS.
Recommendations of the teachers
committee were adopted as follows:
THAT Miss Rose Gibson be appoint
ed assistant in the Girls Industrial
| School, in place of Miss kaui, who
declines appointment. from April L.
THAT the resignation of Miss Flor
/ ence N. Carter, assistant at Maemae
| school, be accepted.
THAT Mrs. Edwards be appointed to
Aiea as assistant at salary of S35
THAT Mrs. Edgar Wood be granted
leave of absence from April 16 to
June 49,
Correspondence with Inspector H.
| NJ Wells on Maui, relative to changes
| made necessary by the death of Mr..
Kaiwiaea, a veteran teacher, was SUBJ
mitted by Mr.. Babbitt. 1t concluded
with wireless message the Superin-
tendent sent that day, after consulta-
ton with Mr. Harrington, directing
the following details:
Miss Ena Anderson appointed prin-
cipal at Haou, and Miss Inez Ander-
son as assistant.
Rev. Mr.. Kameiwa, principal at Ula-
ina, and Mrs Kaiwiaea assistant at
Hama.
Approval was voted.
Misses Myra and Jean Angus both
applied for leave of absence at the end
of the term on account of the illness
of their mother which compelled her
to go away for a change. AS there |
would be ample time to procure sub
stitutes, the requests We're granted.
Mrs. Ida Horner Knight was, on her
application by letter, appointed sub |
stitute at Maemae school for Miss |
Jordan, under leave of absence.
TIRED OF PHILIPPINES.
A letter was read from Henry S.
Townsend, formerly head of the Ha-
waiian educational department as In
spector General of Schools. He stat
ed that it was his intention to leave
two of his children here, that he re-
garded Honolulu as his home and
dreaded returning to the Philippines
whittier he had gone four years ago,
being now in the United States on
furlough. Therefore, he placed him.
self at the disposal of the board for
any position it might have suited to
him. His letter was placed on the APP
plication file.
THE JANITOR QUESTION.
At the previous meeting letter
from the Board of Supervisors of
Oahu, replying to this boards appeal
for funds to. pay janitors and thus en-
able il to employ needed additional
teachers with its balance of appropri-
ations, was deferred in consideration
The letter was denial of the re-
quested aid. Now, on motion of Nh.
Harrington who thought nothing
could be presently done about it, con-
sideration of the matter was postpon-
ed indefinitely.
Principal Copeland of Waikiki high |
school wrote concerning the janitor |
question at that institution. 1t has |
had no janitor since February l. The |
teaching staff had done the best it |
could in the circumstances, and Mr.. |
Copeland had no complaint if assured |
that there was no discrimination. |
1t was voted to instruct Mr.. Cope |
land to employ janitor
THE CALIFORNIA TRIP.
Mr.. Babbitt reported the already |
published letter of Quartermaster
Humphrey conveying the refusal Of |
the War Department to give transport
tation in army transports to teachers |
desiring to attend summer schools in |
California. He had applied to the Pa
cific Mail Steamship Co.'S agency for
special rates to teachers, and Mr..
klebahn having forwarded the appli- |
cation to San Francisco a reply was
awaited.
HEALTH MATTERS
Inspector Baldwin wrote from Kau-
al with reference to an outbreak of |
diphtheria. There were two deaths of |
children at Maxwell, both from the
main camp there. DR. Sandow had
advised that it was not necessary to |
close the school. but white parents |
protested and the teacher refused TO |
teach. Now the school had been re- |
opened with Mrs. Lennox in charge
kalaheo school on McBryde planta-
ton was still closed awaiting fumiga- |
ton by the Board of Health.
A letter was received from Mr. Toll |
iefson referring to a man on aMoIokai |
who declined to have his grandchildren |
attending school vaccinated. He had |
written in reply, quoting the law |
Since then he. had learned that the |
children were coming to town to be |
vaccinated.
FLORAL PARADE AFTERMATH.
FraIsk Andrade. chairman of COM |
ml1le@N on pau riders in the Floral /
Parade, wrote asking if Miss Bernice |
Cooke could not have her salary paid |
in full while laid aside with a sprain- |
ed ankle. sustained by a fall from her
horse lust be- ~ &.