The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-13
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ments cooperating on the principle that
school grounds ought to be treated as
parks, work has been undertaken and
placing school premises in condition
presentable to the public eye.
AS the resolution of the Board of
Commissioners of Public Instruction
has already proved misleading, as
shown by the acquisitions already re-
ceived from school principals, which
include ordinary schoolroom supplies,
and even material for lacemaking, your
committee would recommend that no
blank acquisitions be furnished to prin-
cipals excepting for such implements
and utensils as may be required for
keeping schoolhouses and grounds in
good condition.
The appropriation for the Depart
ment of Education referred to will be
found in Act $50 of the Session Laws
of 1909, making appropriations for cur
rent expenses for the biennial period
ending June 80, 1911, the item being on
page 1913, Laws of 1909, and reading
Industrial training, school supplies,
books, libraries, and lacemaking,
$26,00000.''
If this item is inadequate for its
purposes, that is not a matter for the
Board of Supervisors. This Board has
voted an amount for maintenance and
repairs of schoolhouses proportionately
of equal liberality with the appropria-
ton for that purpose, which the De-
partment of Education had for the
same purpose from the Legislature of
1907, for the past Territorial fiscal
period. The Legislature has asked no
more from the city and county than
what is being done for the schools by
this Board
Claim Is Unjust.
In the matter of the request from
the Kapiolani Estate to curb the side
walks of the land owned by Prince J..
K. Kalanianaole and the late Prince
D. Kawananakoa, fronting on South
and Halekauila streets, the Committee
on Roads, Bridges, Garbage, Parks and
Public Improvements gave as its opln-
ion that this is an obligation which
the former Superintendent of Public
Works had entered into with the Ka-
piolani Estate and which the City and
ever, as the curbing would be quite
an Improvement in that section OF the
city, the committee said it would try,
as soon as possible, to have the curb
ing made.
In the matter of the $500 claim of
the estate against the City and Coun-
ty of Honolulu for taking away OF
stone and dirt from the ahupuaa Of
Auwaiolimu for street pgrposes by
Road Supervisor John H. Wilson, the
committee stated that it thought the
demand unreasonable and unjust, and
therefore recommended that it be not
paid.
The recommendation was adopted.
On recommendation of the Road
Committee. the offer by Superintend-
ent Marston Campbell of a portion OF
the Kuwili pond as garbage dump
was accepted.
The Road Committee reported IN
reference to the block Of land on the
Waikiki side of and adjoining the land
now occupied by Cation, NELL & Co.,
which the City and County has been
using as coral dump, that it would
have the block leveled off and put in
FIRST class condition right away. The
committee expressed the opinion that
it owed the trustees of the Berniee
Pauahi Bishop estate an apology for
not having attended to the matter
sooner.
The Road Committee in a report
complimented Road Supervisor Wilson
on the work he accomplished during
the month of July.
Routine Matters.
The Committee on Roads, Bridges
and Parks, reporting on the petition
for the opening of the lane running
through from Luso street to Beretania
avenue, reported that if the residents
of the district would acquire the right
of way, the committee would macad-