The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-01-20
WAILUKU WILL
HAVE ELEGTRICs
Maui Metropolis to Be Modern
Ized-Want County Control
Of Schools.

Company, appeared before the county
board of supervisors with tentative
plans and maps for lighting the public
buildings and streets Of the twin towns
Of wailul1u and Kahului, and was agree
ably surprised TO find that the super
visors wanted more lights installed
than what he had estimated. The plans
proposed by the public improvement
committee Of the board call, not only
for the installation of arc lights and
incandescent lights on all Of the streets
Of both towns, but also for lighting the
entire length of the mile and a half
driveway connecting the two towns.
The lights along the driveway win be
placed at intervals Of three hundred
feet.
The board of supervisors perfected
its permanent organization at its meet
ing of last week and subdivided itself
into the following committees:
Finance, Henning and Haia.
Public Improvements, Henning and
Lake.
Police, Lake and Haia.
Sanitary and Health, Henning and
Haia.
Rules, Meyer and Lake,
1t will be seen by this arrangement
that Mr.. Pogue, the chairman, is left
out Of the committees entirely and this
has caused some remarks and comments.
Former oficers Reappointed.
All of the former officers and depu-
ties in the employ of the county have
been feappointed, except for Molokai
where H. r. Hitchcock has been APP
pointed district overseer to succeed J.
! IL. Mahoe. For the district of Hama
the appointment for district overseer is
still up in the air, although T. Witt
rock is still in Office under the former
appointment.
The health situation on Maui is prac
tically normal.
Suggestions for proposed legislation
are not receiving the attention it de-
serves. Evidently the voters are salts
fed to leave the matter entirely in the
hands of their elected representatives,
but, however. here are some of the
views entertained on a few of the most
| important propositions.
Health and Sanitation Changes.
There are extremists who want the
entire power in health matters vested
in the county board of supervisors, but
there are Others who would be salts
fed to let things 90 on as they are
with a few minor changes, with the eX-
Ipectation that the legislature will pro-
vide the means so that the territorial
board of health may appoint and pay
a sanitary officer to look after and en-
force health measures on Maui, the same
as Doctor Bowman has been doing ON
the Island of Hawaii. Such an officer
provided with the proper equipment for
handling infectious diseases and assist
ed by the usual staff of government
physicians would be an insurance
against further epidemics on this island.
County School Proposals.
4 In conversing with the men who
? wanted a change in the control of the
public schools it appears that the
change they want is to have the coun-
ty supervisors appoint school super
intendent for each county and to EN-
ploy and pay the school teachers. The
: course of study, the certifying of teach
ers, methods of teaching, text books,
etc, to remain under control of the
territorial board Of education. Some
of the arguments put up for this course
are that the school department does
not pay all the teachers according to
its own salary schedules, and that the
work has so increased and grown un-
wieldy that the department makes blum
ders in the assignment of teachers and
cause unnecessary hardship and bad
feeling all of which would be remedied
easily if the authority to attend to
these things were nearer home Since
1 this county, at least, has made good in
looking after and caring for the school
buildings the advocates for a change
7 presume the same thing will happen il
I the teaching foce is also under county
S control.
Seeking County Control.
Very naturally if the countries were
: to pay the salaries of the school teach
ers more money would be needed tC
4 finance the business of the countries
a hence it is proposed to let the countie.
. have sevcnty-fVe per cent. of the taxel
in lieu of the fifty per cent pro rats
under the present arrangement, and il
is also proposed to segregate the schoo
tax from the general tax collection.
and set it aside as a special school fund
But the most important measure foI
the good of the county of Maui is tn,
completion of the unfinished belt roaC
around the island of Maui. Leaving
4 out the section between Kaupo ant
4 Ulupalakua, there remains about fortl
y miles of bad roads and dangerous trail
through rugged country between settle
ments which must be put into safe goo,
roads. Roughly estimated it is said Il
/. do this work owing to restrictions OF
. the kind of labor to be used, will cos
: over a half of million dollars, an,
: naturally the question arises is it wort
! whiles
. As mOney-making investment /
: ism worth the candle, but for the goo
a of the country and for the protection
: of human life il is worth the cost. Onl
= last week Elder Kirtman lost his If
a while travelling over the only roa
= through that rugged bit of country b,
= tween Kaupo and Kipahulu. Fort
= years ago Doctor Beraz, the governmen
= physician for Maui. met a similar fat
= in the same neighborhood. All of whie
= goes TO show that the danger of usin