Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-12
Promotion or Graduation 0
Students Are Not to Be
Greatest Factors

II
laws relating To the department of
/ bill introduced in the house today by
/ Representative Kawewehi.
/ The first amendment provides that
/ flle tenure OF office OF teacher shall
/ not depend upon the number Of pupils
promoted or graduated, as is now the
Regulation, but solely upon the qualtfi-
/ cations and ability Of the teacher.
/ In the second amendment II is pro.
/ yided that the course of study and i'll
struction in the first eight grades shall
/ be so regulated that not less than so
per cent OF the study and instruction
| in each school day shall be devoted
/ to the composition, grammar and spell
I ing OF the English language. 1t pro-
vides further, that no person shall be
+ received as a pupil for instruction as
teacher in any normal class who is
not a graduate of a high school or col
lege, or who has not attained 81 per
cent in an examination in the English
language prepared by the College OF
Hawaii, such examination to be equiv
alent in every respect to the senior
examination in English in the high
school. .
Department Powers Detailed ...:
Section 273 is amended TO read, in
part, as follows -,
THE department shall have entire
charge and control and be responsible
for the conduct of all affairs apper-
tanning to public instruction. The de-
paftment is authorized to establish and
maintain schools for secular instruc-
tiCn, at such places and for such terms
as IN its discretion il may deem ad-
visabIe and the funds at its disposal
may permit The department shall
regulate the course of study to be pur-
sued in all grades of public schools,
and classify them by such methods as
IL shall deem proper. Such schools
may include normal schools. high
schools for technical instruction,
boarding schools, evening as well as
day schools The department may
also maintain classes for normal
technical and other instruction in any
school where there may not be pupils
sufficient in number to justify the es.
adjustment of separate schools for
such purposes"
Fish Protection Beaten
Despite strong backing, Representa-
tive Wilder's bill to provide close
season for amaama, or mullet, and
other protection for that food fish,
went down 10 defeat in the house this
morning by vote OF for and Isl
against.
Representatives Kupihea and Fer
nandez spoke against the measure.
Fernandez argued for the establish
ment of fish commission for the pro.
lection Of fishermen and owners,
declaring that pond owners have kept
the prices Of mullet high.
Wilder asserted that the people of
Hawaii have got to show the delegate
to congress that the Islands have fish
protection, and that he will then work
for federal support to secure fish
hatchery for Hawaii.
And we can not get this hatchery
unless we show that we are protecting
cur fish," he added
Representative WiIder,s bill provid
ing protection for Holsters, crawfish
and crabs passed third reading by
vote of Is for and 10 against
Money for School
A bin introduced by Representative
Wilcox provides an appropriation of
$4,000 as additional funds from the
school fund for maintenance, repairs
and equipment CT the boys industrial
school fer the biennial period ending
December 81, 1917. This amount will
maintain the school until the school
funds are available The expenses of
the school now are about $500 "a
mcnth.
Representative Wilder introduced al
bill TO repeal chapterI97 of the revised
laws, 1915, relating to stamp duties.
In bill by Representative Miles it is |
provided that every national banking
association or corporation in the ter
rftofy shall be assessed and taxed on
the value of its shares of stock, I
shares and stock to be valued and as
sessed as is other property for taxa
ton.
license for Peddler
An annual license OF $500 is pro- !
yided for in a bill introduced by Rep |
resentative MARQUEE, relating to FER
sons, firms or corporations engaged in |
the peddling and selling of goods and |
merchandise in the territory to others
than merchants.
Representative Kula introduced a
bill fixing the salaries of certain coun
ty officers as follows:
Sheriff. Kauai. s24O0; clerk, $3.50;
auditor. $2160; attorney, SPICE: deputy |
sheriff. Waimea, $500; deputy sher. /
IF. Koloa, sl5c0: deputy sheriff. Ka: |
waihaa, $2o0. /
REPRESENTING Mossman introduced
a bin fixing the salaries OF deputy
sheriffs. Honolulu, ds. follows: Eva,
$500; Waianae. $1,000; Waialua,
1850; Koolauloa, 1920; Koolaupoko,
$1,000
The following bills were tabled:
Many Bills Killed
House bill 16, relating to high sher.
ifs and their deputies practising in
civil cases: house bill los. leaving to a
judge the discretion of granting a
hclle prosequi; house bill 95, providing
all girls committed to the Industrial
school remain there until 20 years
old; house bill los, providing for an in !.
crease in the payment to Queen Lii.