The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-01
TO PENSION OLD
SCHOOL TEACHERS
PLAN DISCUSSED AT THE BOARD
OF EDUCATION MEETING YES
TERDAY-OTHER MATTERS.

A meeting of the board of education |
was held yesterday afternoon. The !
question of pensioning superanuated |
teachers from and after the year 1910 |
was discussed. 1t was decided that
the matter should be taken up before |
the next legislature and efforts made
to secure an appropriations Under the
plan proposed by superintendent Bah !
bitt it is proposed to set aside IL per
cent of the school taxes collected in
the Territory as the nucleus of the
fund. The school taxes amount to
100000 and ? 1-2 per cent would amount
to about $3.50 or $500. The fund will
accumulate through interest-bearing
deposits as well as by hoped-for lega-
cies and donations. The fund is not
to be available until 1910 by which time
it is thought that it will be sufficient
ly large to draw against for the very
few who may be qualified to be pen
sioners 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 a pension.
The board may retire teachers who are
old and unable to retain their positions,
if they have served an aggregate term
of % years in the schools provided 20
of these have been service with the
public schools No pension shall ex-
coed 5000 per annum.
1t is proposed that teachers who
wish to become eligible to participate
in the benefits Of this fund, shall con-
tribute a small amount of their salaries
to the fund, but should they leave the
school department even before they ac-
quire the qualifications necessary to
become pensioners, they will be en-
titled to withdraw fifty per cent of
what they have paid in.
A report was received from Mrs.
Overend of the Waipah school to the
effect that the school was overcrowded
A similar state of affairs was reported
to exist in the Aiea school, The board
directed that the superintendent COM
municate with the plantation author
tiles and request them to assist in pro-
viding room for the purpose of edhcat-
ing the new arrivals. The board of
| education has not funds available.
A concurrent resolution concerning
the agricultural college was read and
referred to w. r. Harrington for in
vestigation. The resolution favors the
| selection of a site on Oahu near Homo
| lulu, The proposed school is not for
| the purpose of studying farming sole
ly, but acquiring a knowledge OF me-
chanical and agricultural subjects. La
| hainaluna is not favored for such
| school,
Honorary life certificates were grant
| ed to Mrs. lamar Hussey and Miss
| Alice West. Life certificates were
granted to Cyril o. Smith and Thomas
| Aiu of Kailua.
| Jack McVeigh was appointed school
! agent for the leper settlement. ]. c..
Davis was appointed school inspector
! to succeed H. M. Wells who was dan
| gerously injured some weeks ago by
| falling over a pail on Maui.
! REIMBURSEMENT Of salaries was made
with the following: Mrs. Rose Aiau,
Waialua; Miss Kalei Ewaliko, KaiwilIi;
| Mrs. Charles King, Olaa 12-Miles; Miss
| Quinn, Pahalai Robert Kihoi, Waimea /;
Eugene Capellas, Hakalau; Manuel De
| Corte, Keauhou; Mrs Omsted, Wal
| mea; Miss Kalipu, Koolau; Miss Lima,
| Kalaheo.
The following appointments of teach
ers were approved by the board: Mrs,
Jane Olney, Ahualoa; Miss Elvira Oso-
rio, Pepeekeo; Mrs. David Marsh, Pa
paikou; Miss Agnes Kamakawiwoole,
Paauhau; Miss Francis Greenfield, Ho-
nokaa; Mrs. Yanagihara, Koolau; Miss
Gertrude Topham, Kilauea; Miss Ly-
dia Macy, Pohakupuka,
The resgnations of Miss Christian
of the Hanamaulu school, Maui, and
that of Charles G. Williams Of Homo
kaa, were acvcepted. The former is ia
be married and the latter intends go
ing to the mainland to study.
Miss Dunn was transferred from Ko-
loa to Lalahee and Miss Aylett was