The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-25
CIONGEsTlOA
WILL Be RELIEVED
superintendent Kinney Tells 'Hilo
Second City Will Be Given
Due Consideration = e:


. When the. new school buildings
planned by Henry W, Kinney, superin-
tendent Of public instruction, have been
completed the congestion at the Hilo
High School will be entirely relieved,
SAYS the EIilo Post, Herald Of last Sat
urday. Work on some of the buildings
will be commenced very shortly. M
Several of the schools throughout
this island are in need Of new buildings,
or repairs to old, said Professor Kin
pey, ejust before ,he departed on the
Manna Kea, after a visit Of Inspection
to, all government school buildings on
Hawaii, Our first concern /, for the
country districts is to build government
sehoolhouses for districts where school
is now being held in rented bulldogs.
Thesc, schools win deserved first by be,
ing provided with their own school,
buildings. =, y = ....t
speaking Of the crowded condition
of the Hilo Union School, Professor
Kinney said:
"This pressure win be relieved by
the, buildings which will soon be erected
at i Piopies +, We now have plans for
work to begin ut once on a six.rOom
school building at Piopio. We are
building for the; future in this school,
as we Hook for a continued increase in
the population of that part of the HilO
district When the Pibpio school build
ing rs ready for pecunancy, as'it will
he before the end Of the present school
year, the children from that vicinity
who now attend Hilo Union will 60 to
Piopio. This, we believe. will make il
Dossible for;us to remove the old yellow
school building. on the Union school
grounds. r.ly
New School At Piopio
There are five. or six acres of ground
thai will be included in the PiopiO
school campus. The Volcano Stables
hUld, a lease on this land which does not
expire until june. However, Mr.. c. f.
Wright, manager of the Stables, who
IN very public spirited man, has gen
srously consented TO allow the work on
the school building to be started just
rs soon as the materials can be put on
the ground.
SIN the plans for the Piopio school
I am indebted to both Mr.. A. c. Wheel
n, of the public works department of
his county, and Miss Josephine Dego,
supervising principal Of the HilO
N"hoois, for ImaRy valuable suggestions.
WeShaye selected an advantageous site
or the building. and, when 1t Is com
Sleted, with its six rooms equipped for
N modern school uses, il will be one
II the best small school buildings in
he Territory, Built for the future. 1t
viii be amply large Ia care for the edu'
"ational needs Of all the children OF
that vicinity, and II will relieve, in a
arge measure. the pressure at the Union
School by taking out the children from
Mud Lane who now attend the Union
Schoai. ~ q" r, -
HThe two new rooms which will hf
added to the WaiakPa -kai School will
also help 10 relieve this pressure, W.
10 not, however, exneet to have thu
edition to the Waiakea-kai schOo
started before the summer vacation
but hope 10 have il finished BY thu
opening of the, September, term"
Waiakea.kai has onlv three buildings
'wo Of three rooms each and one Of twr
rooms. The two, room addition vii
Nrobahlv he a separate building. all o.
Nhe <UulaulukS UVlhS pio'ci aIOuHh
I court In the form of a hollow squar"
The Waiak ca .kaf plans, so far, are only
| tentative.
| Other Plans Made -
"Other plans Tor The imnrovemen
of the Eastern" Hawaii rhool housiU'
81 nation that we hope 10 carry on
this summer include a .oneEoom addi
ton To the school ct HonoTan," "outin
ned the, Superintendent! t.At Ookal
we are gaing to put new three,roor
lschoOl building and a tchcbnT'E HRt'Hg,
to take the plaza of the old huildin"
which are. very dilanidated.a ~ pap
kou one room IL to be added to tn
present school building and a separat
building for vocational work will h
built on the school grounds, This vocG