The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-04-02


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ronsen Vas siek and % without pay.
/ while boat boys aud others might be
hurt The money was wanted 10 en-
plo, extra help In eases ~ this Kind.
The amount was voted, but o. 'inci-
dentals
The items Tor lilo and Kahului har-
hors passed ~ In the bill and the total
amended 10 si3,7l0, an increase over
the bib Of s6e4o.
Public Instruction.
Long moved that ali items Of expense
In the Superintendent Office be- n
lump sum Of Sl0,300. This is the same
as In III bill with the exception that
school agents are TO be cut down to
$1,000
Rice moved TO cut the item out alto
gether He feared the result Of leaving
the word "school agent in the bill.
81 know what il going to mean" he
said. and added that he had seen the
work Of the department before.
Long agreed to knock out the OBJ
iectionnble word. Furtado asked IL the
idea was to knock out all school agents
and was told that 1t was. Furtado
also wanted TO know why the Superin-
tendcnt did not do some work in his
Office instead of being around town all
the time. No one told him. Longs
motion carried.
Items for furniture, supplies, etc,
were Jumped at SS0,500.
Kaniho objected to any lump sum
votings II bred favoritism. according
to his ideas. Long labored with him
| Industrial Training a Fake.
Sheldon said that industrial train
ing'' was fake, simply an avenue for
spending money ''What does lady
teacher know about planting sweet po-
tatoesf' he demanded, going on to
state that most of the children knew
more about industrial work than the
teachers did. lie alsg took occasion
to slam Superintendent Rabbit for
things left undone that he ought to
, have done for the other islands, par
! ticularly Kauai.
, Long answered with a good deal of
heat, while Rice agreed partly with
him and partly with Sheldon. Rice ia
! vored slicing out the industrial train
ing item and adding the $1,000 to teach
2 ers' salaries. He read letter to the
/ effect that all such money was now
wasted and that the schools were full
of sets of tools, rusty and uncared for
He closed by asking Long to give some
reasons why industrial training should
, be continued under the present system.
! Long said he thought it SO important
that if he had his own way he would
have $4,000 for that specific purpose
, alone However, he was willing to
. compromise and put part of it in
school expenses. Rice seconded the
motion
Kaleiopu defended the lady teach
!. ers and their knowledge of planting
a potatoes and cabbages He wanted to
n leave the item as it was. Kaniho dis
/. agreed. He saw no use in teaching
the children how to strip cane.
Industrial training got the axe on
motion of Douthitt.
I Douthtt moved to strike out the
d item of $4,000 for medical inspection.
Long defended the item, stating that
0 the matter was an important one. If
there had been medical inspection here
o tofore there would not have been the
g recent epidemic in the schools.
: Shingle made an address in favor
d of medical inspection of school chill
+ dren in the abstract, which he said re-
t quired a law as well as an appropria-
tiOn So far no such bill had been in
o troduced in the House, probably be-
J. cause no one wanted 10 introduce it.
). There was such bill in the Senate re-
n curing medical inspection by govern
T ment physicians, and he thought the
1 government physicians should do it.
@ He moved to cut the item out
t Health First.
"Health first and these fancy schools
afterward," said Sheldon, who referred
to the "gOod old times,' when the
poor Hawajians could 90 to the dis
pensaries of the government physi-
u clans and secure the medicine that so
J. often proved "the stitch in time" But
q the trouble now is that the government
physicians are not paid enough, and if
it were not for the plantations they
could not live in the country
Long thanked Sheldon for his re-
marks, stating that this money would
e go to these government physicians,
e who would be appointed medical in
spectors. There are twenty-six govern
ment physicians and the agount was
o not much, but it was some.
d Rice said he thought the money had
y been intended for travelling physicians.
d Single reminded him that horse doe
tors were not included among the bene-
! ficiares of the bill.
!. Long said one man could not inspect
the nineteen thousand children in the
!. schools.
The item was struck out Hawaii and
, a majority of the Maui and Kauai dele
: cations voting against the item.
, Tnanactnra IiIvuru