Hawaii — page 62: what you’re looking at

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS—INHABITANTS. 53 No person in holy orders is allowed to be president of the Board of Education. This board consists of six members, and none of them receives a salary. The executive officer receives a salary of two hundred dollars amonth. There is an inspector general, who is required to visit all the schools from time to time. The school population in 1894 numbered about fifteen thousand, of whom 5,177 were native Hawaiians, 2,103 were part Hawaiians, 2,551 were. Portuguese, 529 Chinese, 285 Americans, 184 British, and 113 Japanese, the remaining number consisting of a variety of nation- alities. Of the 483 teachers in 1897 there were 64 Ha- waiians, 63 part Hawaiians, 226 Americans, 76 British, 8 Germans, 7 Belgians, 5 French, 6 Scandinavians, I Dutch, 13 Portuguese, 12 Chinese, and 2 Japanese. Use of tools is taught, tailoring, fitting and sewing; these are all regular branches of instruction. The gov- ernment schools, which are the same as our public schools, employ half of fhe number of the teachers given. An excellent kindergarten school is also maintained. About three hundred thousand dollars is expended each year to support the government schools, The Board of Education is kept in touch with the schools of the United States and Europe, and reports of the schools and their literature are exchanged. In the islands are 23,273 Protestants, 26,363 Roman Catholics, and 4,886 Mormons. This, of course, does not include all the population, as there are Japanese and Chinese, who are in all probability Buddhists. The following are some of the Hawaiian proverbs: (e(o) m Ecomichooks