The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-30
MAUI SCHOOLS
MAY OPEN SOON
Embargo on Education Is to Be
Lifted at Beginning of
the Term.
tFrom wedne.day,s Adrc,tiser.l

(From Wednesdays Advc,tiser)
The department of public instruction
has completed what few preliminary
arrangements were necessary for the
opening of the schools of the Territory
for the new term commencing on Jaa.
uary third, 1t is probable that the
schools of Makawao and Kula, which
have been shut down. for a month
by order Of the board of health owing
to the diphtheria epidemic, will reopen
at that date and the back work will
be caught up.
This was decided upon yesterday
morning at a conference between Act
ing President Pratt of the board of
health and Superintendent Pope Of the
public schools. The decision is taken
as betokening the fact that the cpl
demic on the Valley Island is entirely
under control.
The only appointments necessary for
the new term both happened to be on
Maui and in the infected districts.
Miss G. de Lima, who has been teach
ing at Paia, near where the isolation
camp is now situated, has been trans.
ferred to Hamakuapoko, where the in
lection had its source, hut which has
now been thoroughly cleaned by the
health agents and which is one of the
ceanest camps on Maui Miss Grace
Cockett, who is now in Honolulu where
she has been substituting at the Cen
trail Grammar School for some time,
will be appointed at Paia in place Of
Miss de Lima.
School Notes.
The board of health has requested
the department of public instruction to
instruct all of it's principals to ask
children under them to go to their fam
lily physician and be vaccinated or else
to make Arrangements with the public
health officers for the same purpose.
The department, acting in connection
with the department of agriculture,
viii distribute garden seed to all the
schools to be used in connection with
the industrial training which is such
an important factor in Hawaiian edu.
cation. Incidentally the distribution
will aid greatly in Identifying the
school gardens.
Superintendent Pope has received
from the department of the interior
and from DR.. Irwin Shepard, secretary
of the National Educational Associa-
ton notice that the annual convention
of the latter will take place in San
Francisco from the eighth to the four
teenth of July. Reduced rates will be
in order for the local teachers and it is
probable that great many will take
advantage of the proximity of the con-
vention city and attend it.
H@o OD 0D sD a
to bear not to be made to carry some
of ours,
Hawaiians Decreasing.
One more statement in his interview
deserves notice, Mr.. Castle is quoted
as saying; 81 have failed to find any
signs of decrease among the native
population recently. They have been
decreasing for years. but the ratio of
decrease has been growing less every
year for the past twenty-five, and has
now practically ceased. - Such state
ment can only be accounted for on the
, supposition that Mr.. Castle Glasses
among the natives the part Hawaiians.
II NC ulu thls, IL WIS ehIlfely Bfalm-
tous, because the remarks to which he
objected had no reference to the mixel
race. This is a distinct stock of group
of stocks, with characteristics and de-
grees of resistance power to disease
and drink absolutely different from
those of the pure Hawaiians. The mix
ed race is rapidly increasing, and has
been doing so from the beginning. For
me to have included them in any state
ment concerning gradual extinction
would have been untrue and impossi-
BILE. The figures of the recent census
have just been issued, and show how
sinister the record of the past ten years
has been. The subjoined table of popu-
lation and rate Of decrease among Ha-
waiians tells its own story. 1t is TAX
en- from official census