The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-01
PENSIONS TOR AkNANS
WORKOUT TEACHERS
Proposed Act in Aid Of Aged Pedaeosus
--Davs an lnspector--AgricuItura |
College for Honolulu. III

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| the effort made by the present Boar,
| of Education at the suggestion of Su
| perintendent of Public Instruction Bah
| bitt. The matter will be taken befor,
the legislature at the coming session
and the endeavor will be made to per
suade the lawmakers that, in providing
fund for pensioning such teachers
they will be doing a most commenda
BILE act.
Under the act proposed by Mr.. Bah.
bitt, the Superintendent of Public In
struction becomes chairman of a Board
of Trustees comprising the Commission
ers Of Education; the territorial treas
er is treasurer of the fund; the terri
torial auditor draws the warrants and
the attorney general is the legal adj
set aside 2 IL per cent. of the school
taxes collected in the Territory as the
nucleus of the fund. The school taxes
amount to 100000 and 2 IL per cent.
would amount to about $4,000 or $4,000.
The fund will accumulate through in
terest-bearing deposits, as well as by
hoped-tor legacies and donations. The
fund is not to be available until 1910
by which time it is thought that it
will be sufficiently large to draw
against for the very few who may be
qualified to be pensioners at that time.
Those who have taught in schools for
thirty years, and at least twenty five
in the public schools Of the Territory,
may voluntarily retire as teachers and
become eligible at once to pension.
The board may retire teachers who are
old and unable to retain their positions,
if they have served an aggregate term
of 25 years in the schools, provided 90
of these have been served with the
public schools. No pension shall ex-y
coed 5000 per annum. /
1t is proposed that teachers whsl
wish to become eligible to participate
in the benefits of this fund, shall sesss'l
tribute small amount of their salaries
to the fund, but should they leave he
school department even before theyae-
quire the qualifications necessary to
become pensioners, they will been
titled to withdraw fifty per GER. OF
what they have paid in. The bdefits
to teachers are exceptional AM the
act merely follows aldg the
ines of pension acts in vogs else
where. {.
The pension act was discussd at the ;
regular meeting held yesterdy after
noon which was attended bysuperln-
sendent Rabbit, Commissiders Mrs.
J. NJ. Dowsett, W. R. Farrineon, Frank
Dodge and David Al, and Sormal In
'pectors King and Baldwin
An important matter un6r discussion
was the over-crowding OF certain
schools and the problem OF how to
dispose of the children Of the newly
arrived Portuguese migrants. The /
natter came up throuh a letter re-
.eived from Mrs. Overed, principal of
he Waipahu Oahu PDntation) school.
She stated that for srnetIme she has
been compelled to tur1 away numerous
owing to liDited quarters, but
hat the problem hs assumed more
serious phase since che arrival on the
plantation of the Portuguese immi-
grants and their numerous children.
Yrs. Overend statd that as these chill
lren have no kpswledge of the Eng
ish language, it is necessary, no mat
er what their ge, to take them into {
he receiving rom, where sixtythree
'upils are alrealy enrolled. The school
as four teacers and the seating ,
apacity of tie school is 2os. Many
hildreu who ave always lived at Wal
ahu have ben compelled to await an
pportunity % go in.
Mr.. Babbbt said that this was mat
err which gould be up to the legisla-
ure to reaedy. Mr.. harrington con-
idered it a serious matter as there is
likeibosd of discomfort to be mani
ested br the new arrivals, to whom
ave bea held out promises of an edu-
alton for their children.
Wbeu Mr. Babbitt was asked wheth-
r he gould not provide another room
e called attention to the fact that the ,
Jena xment of Instruction is without
ncidsntal funds, having but ~ cents
eft and only s32 in the repair fund.
Re said he had even borrowed $40
roth of stamps to carry on his cor
epondence.
1t was suggested that perhaps the
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