The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-20
WILL KEEP
GOOD FAITH
Hilo High School, to Be
Built.--EducationaI
Matters.

/ Hllo is going TO have it's high school
but in a wooden building. There was
some informal conversation on the
matter at a meeting of the Board of
Education yesterday. 1t was stated
that some Hilo people We're doubling
the good faith of the authorities as
| to giving Hilo any high school
| After the meeting an Advertiser re-
porter asked Mr.. Holloway Superin-
tendent of Public Works. if he intend
ed calling for tenders for the Hilo high
school building. His answer was in
the affirmative and he said that the
building would be of wood The mate
rial of construction, if the building goes
UP this period, is a case of Hobson's
choice, for, as previously reported, the
bids received for various fireproof
materials We're all far above the
amount of the appropriation balance
after large expenses for site We're paid
So it became a question of putting off
construction for a new appropriation
or building of wood under the exist
ing appropriation.
AT the Board meeting there were
present w. H. Babbitt, superintendent,
and w. r. Harrington, Mrs. E. w. Jor-
dan and Mrs. H. Wilcox Commits
sioners.
Mr.. Babbitt brought up the matter
of teachers examinations, giving the
members his views thereon. For one
thing, he thought it was unfair to ask
the same teachers, one year after an
other, to assume the task of handling
the examinations. He did not like
some of the old examination papers,
and his opinions in this respect We're
generally approved by the members.
What we want to find OUT Mr..
Rabbit said, lis what the teacher
knows" Referring to certain schedules
of questions he thought they gave an
advantage to cleverness rather than |
"A teacher who may pass
an examination very cleverIy," the |
Superintendent observed, may be a |
poor teacher in the classroom. while !
one who may be slow in answers may |
be a good teacher
1t was agreed that the superintendent |
should, at his convenience, appoint a
pers.
Recommendation of the teachers COM
mttee We're adopted as follows:
That leave of absence asked for by
Mrs. Lennox be granted.
That leave of Miss Nina j. Adams
be granted.
That appointment of Miss Rose Ka-
lnamano to Royal School be approved
That appointment of Miss Gouveia |
to Waialua School be approved.
That Miss Kawainui be not trans
ferred from Waialua to Maemae
school.
That Miss Nielsen's appointment to
VVaipahu at $50 month be approved.
That leave of absence be granted
Mrs. Anahu, and that D. H. Kahau
clio be appointed substitute.
An application by letter of Miss
ellen H. Bicknell. of the high school, |
or leave of absence to attend the
summer school at Berkeley, Cal, was
granted.
Mrs. S. 3. Harry's request for a
ransfer from Wailuku, Maui, to Ha
,alau, Hawaii, was referred to the
eachers committee.
Miss Hazel Hoffman. of the high I
chool, wrote asking leave of absence $
n Washington, D. c. Her request was
ranted on condition that she find a S
ubStitute.
A proposition to charge so cents a r
Month for regular pupils and 81 for q
utside pupils in enc high school, for
Sc of typewriters, was adopted. o