The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-12-19
FILTHY SCHOOL
CONDEMNED
BY BOARD
Commissioners of Public Instruc-
ton Appeal to Supervisors and
Board of Health to Clear Up
Disease Breeding Conditions
Said to Exist at Pohukaina
School.
tFrom Wedneday s Adyertiser.l

(frOm NeuneuaN 'ANNeIllStT')
1.-THE Commissioners of Public In
struction in session wish to express
disapprobation of the intolerable and |
almost unbelievable state in which the
grounds about the Pohukaina School
have been allowed to remain for over
year.
ITO force teachers and pupils alike
to spend hours each day surrounded
by manure heaps and filth and refuse
of all kinds in an atmosphere Of the
vilest odors is neither just nor fair
and not in accordance with the policy
of safeguarding and preserving public
health and we earnestly request the
board of supervisors or the board of
health to take steps to Immediately
remedy the state of affairs referred to.
on II. Gibson, Superintendent;
r. Brandt, Emma X. Bond, d. e. Lind
say, Mary Anterior Richards, w. ii,
Smith, f. W. Sutton"
Claim Supervisors Should Act.
In this manner the commissioners of
education at yesterdays final meeting
of the board went on record in no un-
certain tone in regard to the deplor-
able sanitary condition of affairs
which has obtained at the POhukaina
School in this city for year or more
past. Attention was called to this
same thing in The Advertiser some
time ago. While not going into the
merits of the case, members of the
school board claim it is unquestionably
the duty of the board of supervisors
to keep the grounds of the territorial
schools in proper order and condition
Failing to do this there is no question
but that the board of health should
take steps to see that the board of SUI
pervisors complies with its manifest
duty.
Yesterday 5 session of the education
commissioners was both q busy and
harmonious one and considerable work
was accomplished. In fact, the com
mission rot through with all that was
on the days program by four clock
in time for Commissioner Il. Brandt TO
catch the steamer Kinau an hour later
for his Kauai home. Commissioner ID.
c. Lindsay leaves today by the steamer
Mauna Kea for his Valley Island home
as do Commissioners Mrs. d. d. Bond
and w. II. Smith by the same steamer
for Kohala and IIlo respectively.
The commissioners will meet again
February "a, during the Mid-Paciiic
Carnival week.
Number Of Appointments Made.
The commissioners yesterday made
the following appointments of vocation
al instruction instructors for the dlt-
ferent Islands:
f. G. Allen, of the Holualoa, Kona,
Hawaii school, for the Island of lla'
wall, with headquarters at Hllo, the
county seat Vocational instruction
will also be given at the more important
schools on Hawaii, such rs Papaikon,
Honomu, Iiolualoa, Hookena and IA
hala.
H. q. Bowman, Of the Lahainaluna
School, with headquarters at Waikiki,
instruction in this line to be given also
MT Lahaina, Puunene, Paia and Hama
kuapokO.
Shines y. Hoyt for Oahu, with head
quarters in Honolulu, at the Normal
School, like studies to be given also
at Aiea, Waipahu and EVA. An in
structor in domestic sciences Will be
appointed as soon as arrangements for
this purpose can be made by the de-
partment.
Clyde H. Alspaugh, of the Waialee
Boys Industrial School, on this Island,
for Kauai with headquarters at Lihuc,
the schools at Waimea, Hanapepe and
Kappa also TO be given courses in vO-
cational work.
r. c. Bowman and clyde II. Alspaugh
nrA both graduates of mainland agri-
cultural colleges of prominence.
Vocational instruction will begin with
the start of school after the Christmas
vacation, which begins on Friday, on
January of the coming year.
The commissioners decided to retain
Miss Gala j. Harrison and Miss Cora
Harrison Mt the lieauhou School in
Kona, Hawaii, instead of transferring
them to lIoualoa. This was done al
the teachers request.
Rev. j, w. Wadman was extended an
invitation to speak AT public schools
in his travels over the Islands on ques-
lions of morality, but not on sex prob.
lens, all arrangements TO this end To
be made with the respective principals
and subject TO their approval.
The commissioners decided 20 include
lead pencils In the list of school sup.
plies, this important item strangely
enough not appearing in former lists,
No action was taken hy the bonrd IN
regard 10 the proposed change In school
hours, but Superintendent r. II. Gibson
was authorized 90 make such changes
along this line whore ever h0 deemed
necessary or desirable provided that
there should bo ro curiailmont of the
number OF school h0uis now required.
II was held ~ he tho opinion of the
commissioners that ull principals of tho
larger territorial schools should be- bold.
ers Of prammaf grade certificates.
Preparing Por summer Sessions.
Superintendent Gibson Nas author
ifrd io srruW che services ~ como eff
eirpi and We'll huoNn educator from ihr
Wainlani 90 iahr pan in tln tHmmrr
school srsslpls fpr irirhra, Nhrh Nlll
w. heii IN iHlf ni nmt YrtT Nr $40
tpn hhs q pumiff of furh rlHUilT.