The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-07-02
COUPLES WITHOUT
CHILDREN NLEAD
ND|VORCE COURT
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Judge Whitneys Annual Report
Offers Much Food For Stu
r dents Of Sociology
CREATION OF JUVENILE
TRIBUNAL SHOWS RESULTS
Retiring lurist Closes Busy Year
And Leaves Record Hard
To Equal
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details is the annual report filed with
tue chief justice Of the supreme court
yesterday by Circuit Judge Whitney
d,aiing with the. work of the second
division Of the first circuit court dur.
ng the year ending June 80. Ii.
The report gives the sum total of the
work in the land court and the juven-
lie court, over both of which Judge
Mhitney has been presiding for many
years. He also covers i'm the report the
work accomplished by him in the
b anches Of the court dealing with pro.
bate, annual accounts, final accounts,
petitions to sell real estate, habeas
corpus, equity, civil and divorce cases.
In short, the report shows:
Land Court Figures
Land Oomt-Thirty- three petitions
pending on June 80, 1914; petitions
filed during the year past numbering
forty eight, making a total Of eighty.
one; petitions granted and DEGREES is
sued, thirty-nine, and petitions now
pending, forty-two, showing six peti.
tons less pending now than year ago
The area Of the land included in tho
tides registered aggregated 1896 .22S
arres, and that included in titles pend
irg registration amount to 7,723.S2
acres, grand total Of O,420. 04S acres.
Tho assessed valuation of lands includ.
cd in titles registered reached $685., 1859,
and of the lands included in the titles
Prnding, $l49, 124, a total of $685., 9S3.
The fees earned by the court amounted
to $S471l, and the assurance fund col
le"ted amounted to $766.17.
Probate and Kindred Mattaro
Probate-Petitions granted for let.
tiers OF administration, si&ty.four, three
refused; probate of will, forty.three
and two refused; letters of guardian.
ship, forty-one; adoption, twenty; ap
po.ntment of trustee, twelve, and to re
move guardian, one, making a total of
~ petitions of all kinds granted and
five refused, a grand total of 1856 pe.
hnops OF all Kinds disposed of.
Annual Aceounts-Granted forty.
three to guardians, one to administra-
&C. ana thirty-one to trustees, a total
Of seventy-five.
FINAL Accounts - Administrators,
th,rty-three; executors, twenty; guard,
ians, seventeen, and trustees, seven, a
total Of seventy seven.
Four petitions to sell real estate were
granted. One habeas corpus petition
was refused.
Equlty-One bill to declare trust re.
used one for accounting, three fore.
closures Of mortgage and one to revoke
deed of trust were granted.
In the civil calendar Judgment was
gwen for the plaintiff in one quo war.
I6nto, four assumpsit and one summary
possession case; for the defendant in
Que summary possession and one action
to quiet title case. Seven of these cases
were original and one was on appeal.
All eight cases were tried without Jury.
Juvenile Court Work
The juvenile court report brings for.
ribly to public attention Judge Whit
mcy's great work along these lines,
work which he initiated in Hawaii and
has brought up during the past ten
years to an extent that it is consid,
cIcd very important factor in the
lie of the community.
The jud o had before him during
the fiscal year just past 400 boys and
cighty'six girls, total Of 4S6 children
charged with delinquencies. There were
l47 cases of larceny and kindred of
lenses, ninety-six for truancy, thirty
five for likeness, thirty four for assault
md battery, twenty for disobe-
dien"e, nineteen for gambling, one VIC
la ion of the curfew and forty,three
ether charges against boys. The girls
who faced Judge Whitney were charg.
od: thirty five with truaney; nineteen,
idleness; eighteen, disobedience; three,
larceny and kindred ofenses, and elev,
Ell for other offenses.
Nationality And Disposition
By nationality the children were: Ha-
W. DM, 100 boys and fifty-seven girls,
total of 226; Portuguese, l07 boys and
"woIIe girls, total of ll9; Chinese, fiji
ty eli hit boys and seven girls, total of
aixty-fve; Japanese, twenty eight boys
and two girls, total of thirty, and all
other nationalitios, thirty nine boys and
seven girls, total of fOrty-six.
The disposition of these cases was as
follows: Served probation and dis
charged, l76 boys and twenty eight
girls, total of 204; surrendered, twenty
~ boys and three girls, total of TWEEN
ty nine; pending on probation, 1928 boys
End twenty five girls, total of 1853; com
united without probation, thirty eight
boys and twenty-five girls, total Of
'ixty.three; reprimanded, thirty one
boys and two girls, total of thirty
three, and dismissed, four boys.
NJ Dependents Provided For
Tn" depehdent eases had the follow
i'T disposition made: eleven boys and
twenty six girls, total of thirty seven,
united to private homes; one boy
"nl twenty five girls. total of twenty.
Nv committed to private institutions
:" one girl committed to u public ia
s'itutiOn.
John c. Anderson, boys probation
"""C" made 1899 reports on the boys
20, 81 Huder his charge. and Miss
f""es Mavard, girls probation officer
=" 'e 9397 reports on the girls placed
in her charge. A total of 57S9 reports