The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-03-12

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Honolulu this week in the ketch Ajax
for Apia, Samoa, where they will in
terest themselves in the copra in
Mr.. Green has been city edi-
tor of the Star-Bulletin for over 9
years past. Several months ago he
married Miss Gretchen Fake, daugh-
ter Of A. Fake, formerly connected
with Hackfeld & Co. Her mother was
born in Samoa and it is in connection
with family estates in former German
Samoa that Green and his wife are
going.
n. A. r. Austin, well known on
Maui as engineer of the photographic
bureau of the L. S. geologic survey
has been appointed deputy city and
county engineer of Honolulu at a sal
airy of 1915 a month.
For Industrial School 5oard-An-
drew Adams, manager of Kahuku
plantation, has been commissioned by
Acting Governor Curtis p. Iaukea as
a member of the board of industrial
schools. Manager Adams succeeds
Rev. Father Valentin, resigned.
C. O.. p. Favors Legion Planks-
Several planks from the platform of
The American Legion will be appro-
priated by the Republican party in
Hawaii according to statements made
by men prominent in the party coun-
ellis. The particular matters likely to
be prominent in the local G.. o. p.
platform are the abolition of foreign
language schools, the curling of the
foreign language press and a strict
preference to citizen labor on army
and navy work.
Japanese Breaks Neck-By a fall
from a mule he was riding Ichii, a
resident of Olaa, sustained a broken
neck last Friday, dying before he
could be rushed to the Hilo hospital.
Much Flu In Big misunderstanding
to the Hilo Post-Herald influenza is
now prevalent in every district of Ha-
wall. There are more than 500 cases
in Kona, 30 in Kohala, a dozen or so
in the Hamakua district, nine in Kau
and Is in HilO. The Kona district has
suffered severely from the disease and
the death rate has been extremely
high. The peak" is thought to have
been reached in Kona, but the worst
is yet to come in the other districts,
claim the persons who are studying
The situation.
But Two Weeks OF T~raining-The
reserve officers training camp at
SchOfield Barracks will last but two
weeks, it has been decided-from June
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an intensive one, and officers this
year will be ordered to attend on their
own initiative only.
Prince May See Centennial-Owing
to the delay in leaving England on ac-
count of the influenza epidemic, it is
now probable that the Prince of Wales,
enroute to Australia, will be in Ho-
nOlulu on April 10, instead of the 9th
as at first announced. He will conse-
quently be there coincident with the
opening of the missionary centennial.
Pineapples Take Jump-Following
the decision of the U. S. supreme
court that stock dividends of corpora
tons are not subject to the income
tax. Hawaiian Pineapple Co., shares
advanced 81 points on Tuesday and
are now held at 88h. A meeting of
the directors of the company has been
called for Monday at which time it
is expected that a 25 percent stock
dividend will be declared.
Hilo Teachers Hiking-The recreat-
ion committee of the Hilo teachers
union has decided that the teachers
shall take at least 10 organized hikes
each year. Arrangements are being
made for securing the use of beach
and mountain houses by the teachers,
Brother Andrew J. Panzer, one of
the instructors in st. Louis College,
Honolulu, died on last Tuesday after
noon after being ill 2 weeks with in.
fluenZa. He was known and popular
with the students who have attended
the school since 1914, when he came
to the Islands. lie was a native OF
Baltimore.
Bonus Observation-Disclosures to a
circular of the Japanese labor fedora.
ton to effect that but 40 percent OF
plantation labOrers actually partici
pate in the bonus of the plantations
the Sugar Planters Association has
issued a statement showing thai
counting all nationalities employed or
the Oahu plantations 87.4 percent re
ceiyed the bonus for every montl
last year; and that he japanese
workers 92.8 percent participated il
the bonus each month.
Flu Worse On kauai--The influ
enza situation was worse rather than
better on Kauai last week. Exclusive
of the plantation camps there haC
been $50 cases at Waimea alone, mos
Of them severe and with MANY deaths