The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-08-04

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ht him. W Superintendent III lnslfnr
ten. nom NJ Niiiafd in which was
charres made by Mf. WolioIn = told
mananrf ~ N. By N Co.. Nhaithu, in
Witch Ne (Mr Weltefal advised my
being removed from my position as
priueipal 81 Waiohin1 school, before
my return from The Coast
Ga Mr.. 9inari's letter the depart.
ncut Of education was askcd 20 look
into the matter and investigate the
charges made by Nj. woltors--I told
MI Rabbit that my bong q member
Of the Il. 8, A. was az the bottom Of
II, and asked him IL Il was tho DO.
sire Of the department that / should
withdraw from the T. s. A. lie said
Most assurediy not. / took tho let
ter, and went TO see Mr.. Giffard. Among
other things that he said was this
II you and your teachers (referring to
Miss Aud and Miss Jones, both mem.
bers Of the 4. S. AZ win withdraw
from the Thompson Settlement Asso.
ciation, l will guarantee that all oh.
jettions- prosecutions as you call Thorn
from Mr.. Wolters, Will cease. / went
TO Mr.. Rabbit s office and reported the
result of my interview with Mr.. Gift.
! fard, as i had gone TO see him (Gif-
fprd at Mr.. Rabbit Is suggestion. Again
Mr.. Babbitt said that there was no
reason for my teachers OF me to think
of withdrawing from t. S. A. Some
time after my return to Walohinu, Mr..
Babbitt wrote to me saying that he
though it advisable for me and my
teachers to withdraw from the 7. s.
A., ms being members put us in a po-
sition which, he thoight, we would not
want. to occupy. He said that his
letter was not TO be considered an Of.
fetal one. Acting upon this advice we,
all three, notified Mr.. Pratt, land COM
missioner, at that time, that we wish
ed to withdraw from the T. s. A. Mr..
Rabbit wrote to me, and thanked me
for our prompt compliance with his re-
quest. After tho opening of the legis-
latpre, 1907, MIR. Thos. c. White
brought me a letter, written after u
meeting of Governor Carter, Mr.. Bah.
bitt, Mr.. White and Senator Hewitt, in
which we were assured that so long
as our work was satisfactory, we need
have no fear of losing our positions in
the school, and saying that Mr.. Pratt
had not intended TO give him the inn
preston that he thought it advisable
| for us to withdraw. In the meantime
had received a letter from Senator
Hewitt say that Mr.. Pratt had not ac.
cepted or Withdrawals.
Gas regards Mr.. Wolters' PROPOSE,
tion to buy the lands of the 7. S. A..
can only say what is embodied in
the letter sent to the president of the
association, about year ago. If am
not mistaken, it was dated Feb. 20,
1910. That morning, he stopped at my
gate, and said that the only thing that
the members of the T. S. A. could DO
with the lands, then under lease to
them, was to either lease or sell them
to the plantation, and that he was
ready, upon receipt of an agreement
to sell the land to the plantation, as
soon as title had been obtained, this
agreement to be signed and acknowl-
edged before a notary, to put the price
of the land, varying from $40 to $40
an acre IN escrow. He said that he
believed that we had complied with
all conditions of our lease, and that
upon receipt Of the signed agreement,
he would have his agents.. Brewer
& Co., use their best efforts with the
n, SCI vauhlia
lands, to get us our titles, adding You
know that such men as Carter, Bishop
and the rest of the firm Of Brewer &
Co. would have more influence with
them, than members of your assocIa-
ton suggested that he put this prop
osition in writing, sign it himself as
manager, II. S. p. Co., and send 1T to
the president of the T. S. A. This he
did as his letter viii prove. Miss
l.. X. Aud heard all of this CONVEX
sation. He said, in regard to this prop
osition, that he wanted an answer be-
fore the following Thursday. 1t was
Saturday when the conversation took
place, as he was leaving for Honolulu
on that day, and wanted to be able
to take the agreement to Brewer & Co.,
and say 'They have agreed to sell rs
their land, now let's let up our fight
on them. Miss Aald also heard this
remark. Our answer, as yOp know,
stated that we had taken up our lands
for homes and that we had no inten-
tion of selling them, but would con
slider, any planting contract that was
similar to that offered by any of the
other plantations. Shortly after re-
ceiving our answer, he (Mr. Wolters)
said to me, in the presence of Miss
Aud, that if the members of the T.
s. A. thought that when the plantation
wanted a few hundred acres of land
that they could keep it from getting
them they were mistaken, for the plan
tation could keep dragging it from one
court to another until half of the mem
bers were dead.
"Several different remarks, showing
Mr.. VOTERS attitude toward the T. s
A. / jotted down the day they were
made, and had Miss Aud sign them as
only in this way co1id I give his exact
words. Those statements, / am told
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