Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-13


IS the exceedingly great assistance which this step
would be in the efforts which making to place
vocational instruction on basis of real practical use
fulness. I maintain that this work should be self
supporting far as the purchase of raw material IS
concerned as matter Of fact it viii be impracticabe
for financial reasons if It IS not.
In order to make this work selfsupportng the yoca.
tional instructors have to much of their time and
ingenuity in efforts to orders for and to supply
salable articles the manufacture of which is not al
ways Of the greatest possible educational value.
The schools can be their own best customers; If the
control Of the school furniture item is left TO the De
partment of Public Instruction the school carpenter
shop viii be provided with enough useful work to keep
them busy with tasks of educational value In Short
want to get away from the possibility of having
school carpenter shops turning out endless
sion of tabourettes and fern stands as they
in some compelled to do IN greater or less
tent The school shops can turn out almost every
item Of school furniture needed in the schools except
patent desks. they are allowed to do it, the Ter
rfory will receive these articles cheaply than
they be purchased, and it will at the time
have provided the vocational training department
with most valuable opportunity.
As the law stands at present Il is Illegal for our
school shops to make school furniture.
The law provides that general appropriation can
be spent for no purpose for which there is specific
appropriation There are specific appropriations for
school furniture Therefore cannot legally buy out
Of our vocational training fund.- which is general APP
preparation, raw material for the manufacture Of
school furniture We can legally make cubes, balls,
fern baskets etc. but we cannot make our own furni
ture. This condition should be remedied. Further
more in the matter Of the purchase of patent desks
il should be remembered that the Department, if it
purchases desks for; the entire group can command
better terms than when small amounts are dealt in as
at present and it will without doubt be able to
pei dealers to keep on hand reasonably large stock
which will do away with the great Inconvenience of
the present arrangement when pupils often have to
sit boxes the floor, waiting while the desks
on their way from distant points on the mainland.
In the same connection hope that the legislature
win make some arrangement whereby school repairs
and the construction Of buildings Of simple design can
be turned over to the students in the cases Of schools
providing instruction IN the mechanical arts. This
will save money and give the pupils valuable oppor
tunity for instruction leaving tho CONSTRUCTION and
repair Of school buildings otherwise the control Of
tlfc c6unty Is &c present:
For further information, beg to refer yo1 to my
report to the Governor and my report % the Sshate
Hold Over Goinmit tee, s g ss,ss
believe that the experience and observation Of Super
dent kinney connection with this subjecs should col
great values and therefore we
.kCoM1lEND that the Chamber Of Commerce Of Honol,
r support and urge upon The attention Of the Legi
It's enactment Of such law as Will transfer the care Of
snditure for furniture and fixtures Of public schools
more general TerfitpriaI responsibility and supervise
ough the Department. Of Public Instruction.
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