The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-02-14
ASKS BIG SUM
FOR BUILDINGS
Needs Four Hundred Thousand to
Meet School Necessities Of
Territory.

Over four hundred thousand dollars
or, in more explicit terms, $4O7 200, will
be asked by the department Of public
instruction in the new biennial appro.
priations solely to construct new build.
ings. Additional teachers, necessitating
further increase in the annual ex-
penditure of $4,000, is another item
asked for, which represents an increase
Of $64,sOO in the biennial teachers
budget The appropriation asked for
thus exceeds the last one by almost
$472, 500.
These figures are included in the bi.
ennial report of Superintendent Pope
of the department of public instruction,
made to Governor Frcar several days
ago, which is now under consideration,
pending gubernatorial approval.
Together with the 100000 excess ap.
preparations for permanent construction
asked by the board of health and simi.
larly large sums requested bv other de-
partments, these figures exhibit more
clearly than anything else the strain
that will be placed on the territorial
treasury, unassisted by county financial
help, which has caused Governor Frear
to issue the statement that a raise in
taxes is imminent if the system of taxa
tion is not changed.
Need Is Urgent.
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several interviews, the keynote Of
which is that such improvements as the
belt roads and others which were in
cluded. in the campaign slogans will
have to give way before the urgent
need of improvements and additional
construction such as is asked for in
Superintendent Pope's report.
The need for these improvements is
best shown in figures given out yester.
day by the Governor, to the effect that
the attendance in the schools has in
creased seventy-fve per cent since ter
ritorial government, during which time
the expenditures have increased but
forty.fve per cent.
To these figures Superintendent Pope
has added further information in his
report. He says that the schools were
crowded two years ago, since which
time little additional construction has
been done, Honolulu has suddenly out
grown an old and musty shell into
larger fields, the legislative remedying
measures in the past being as slow and
shortsighted as that growth has been
rapid and sudden.
At the present time there are 100
children of school age who are not at
tending school, in nearly all cases be-
cause they can not get in. In the last
years there has been an increase in the
school population of III, and the super
intendent believes that there is no rea-
son why we should not expect an in
crease of thousand in the near future.
Reformatory Schools.
AS already announced in The Adver-
! tiser, the Girls Industrial School and
the Boys Industrial School are almost
useless in their present state, requiring
in most part complete reconstruction.
These items are therefore considerable
ones.
Superintendent Pope asks for a total
of $4,000 for the girls reformatory
institution, which, according to present
plans, is to be rebuilt at Moiliih on
the cottage plan.
OF this sum, $4,000 is asked for
four cottages alone, and $4,000 for a
school building which is to complete
the little settlement. Salaries for .hroe
"house mothers" made necessary by
the new system which is almost imper.
ative, is also asked. They are to draw
$50 a month each.
For the Boys Industrial School, $780,
! 600 is asked The proposed concrete
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place of the present building, now rot
ting away, will cost $4,000. Two
thousand dollars each is needed for a
new kitchen and new laundry to re.
place the outrageous makeshifts at
present serving those purposes.
New permanent buildings for the La.
haina Seminary will require $4,000,
the largest items in the sum being set
down to new dormitory and new
kitchen and dining hall, each of which
will cost $4,000. An extension to the
carpenter shop and blacksmith shop
will cost $500 each, while three new
cottages for the teachers need a thou.
sand dollars apiece.
The largest sum for these special in
stitution is asked for the territorial
Normal School, $4,000 being requested d
for permanent building to house the
needs of the school, constantly outgrow-
ing the present structure.
Honolulu Needs.
Honolulu school needs come first in
attendant expense, Hawaii being sec
ond, Kauai third and Maui last.
The total aount asked for new Ho.
nolalu county school building is 1885,.
600 which is outside of the appropria.
tions asked for the reformatory and
normal schools, The largest item in this
list is the proposed Kaimuki school
which has been a crying necessity, that
district having been almost entirely
built since the list legislature met. II
is to be a concrete structure, as pre-
viously announced, and viii cost $50,
600.
The Kauluwela School is next in or
der Of expense, 100000 being asked FOL
twelye-room concrete building. Fif
teen hundred dollars each has beer
asked for additional construction ant
, for new schools at Kaahumanu, Kaiu
lani, Royal, Waialua and Waipahl
, schools, two thousand dollars for
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