EDUCATION. 



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The youngest children are not classified until they can put 

 letters together in syllables. 



Vocal music is taught wherever competent teachers are 

 found. 



The total sum expended on education, including the grants 

 to "family" and other schools, is about $40,000 a year.* 



It has been remarked that the rising race of Hawaiians has 

 an increased contempt for industry in the form of manual 

 labour, and it is proposed by the Board of Education that such 

 labour shall be made a part of common school education, so 

 that on both girls and boys a desire to provide for their own 

 wants in an honest way shall be officially inculcated. There is 

 a Government Reformatory School, and industrial and family 

 schools for both girls and boys are scattered over the islands. 

 The supply of literature in the vernacular is meagre, and few 

 of the natives have an intelligent comprehension of English. 



The group has an area of about 4,000,000 acres, of which 

 about 200,000 may be regarded as arable, and 150,000 as 

 specially adapted for the culture of sugar-cane. Sugar, the 

 great staple production, gives employment in its cultivation and 

 manufacture to nearly 4000 hands. Only a fifteenth part of 

 the_ estimated arable area is under cultivation. Over 6000 

 natives are returned as the possessors of Kuleanas or freeholds, 

 but many of these are heavily mortgaged. Many of the larger 

 lands are held on lease from the crown or chiefs, and there are 

 difficulties attending the purchase of small properties. 



Almost all the roots and fruits of the torrid and temperate 

 zones can be grown upon the islands, and the banana, kalo, 

 yam, sweet potato, cocoanut, breadfruit, arrowroot, sugar cane, 

 strawberry, raspberry, whortleberry, and native apple, are said 

 to be indigenous. 



* The schools of the kingdom are as follows : 





Number 

 Schools. 



Boys. 



Girls. 



Total. 



Common Schools 



Government Boarding Schools . . . 

 Government Haw. -Eng. Day Schools . 

 Subsidized Boarding Schools . . . 

 Subsidized Day Schools 

 Independent Boarding Schools . . . 

 Independent Day Schools . 



196 



3 

 5 



10 



'% \ 



3c 



16 



3193 

 185 

 415 

 168 

 201 

 14 

 287 



2329 



246 

 191 

 210 



62 

 254 



5522 



185 

 661 



359 

 411 

 76 

 541 



Total . . ... 





4463 



3292 



7755 



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