spirit has been especiall}^ manifest during the meetings of the 
past year. 
The Association consists of a central organization in Hono- 
kihi, with branch organizations upon each of the other islands. 
Any teacher of the public or private schools is eligible to mem- 
bership. There are no dues nor fees. The officers consist of a 
president, vice-president and secretary, elected annually. The 
officers for 1910-11 were Air. J. C. Davis, ]\Iiss Ida Ziegler, Mr. 
Vaughan MacCaughey. An advisory council, consisting of the 
principals of the larger schools, assists in the planning of pro- 
grams and other executive work of the association. Meetings 
are held monthly, usually in the auditorium of the McKinley High 
School. 
With regard to the work on the other islands, Miss Josephine 
Deyo reported, (1909) : ''On Hawaii, the Hilo Teachers' Union, 
organized in 1893 and composed of about seventy-five Hilo and 
Puna teachers, convenes four times a year. The leading features 
of its meetin.qs are classroom work, general papers, discussions, 
addresses anrl exhibitions of pupils' handiwork. 
*'A second Hilo society, known as the Teachers' Reading Club, 
has met for eleven years on two evenings of each school month 
to pursue such lines of work as make for culture and broader 
scholarship. The present work is on the art, literature and history 
of Spain. 
''The Kohala Teachers' Association, now about seventeen years 
old, meets quarterly and is a helpful factor in the Kohala educa- 
tional field. Practical schoolroom work and the presentation of 
successful methods and devices by cajxable teachers characterize 
its meetings." 
Once a year all the Maui teachers meet at W'ailuku as the 
"Maui Teachers' Association." The Wailuku-Makawao Associa- 
tion of about fifty members meets onc^ in two months, emphasizes 
the work of primary grades and pays some attention to the sub- 
ject of school agriculture. 
The Lahaina Association, which meets monthly, was organized 
September, 1908, with thirty members including teachers from 
Molokai, who attend the meetings once in three months. Dis- 
cussions and exchange of views on topics of vital interest to 
teachers, rather than the reading of formal ])apers, is favored 
by this body. 
Distance and the difficulties of island travel make it impossible 
for all the teachers of the Territory to avail themselves of the 
advantages of association work, but the organizations mentioned 
above include a large percentage of our teaching force. 
Educational matters have had a prominent j^lacc in the legis- 
latures of l)olh the nation and the Territory during the past year. 
Concomitantly, the association has taken a ])articular interest in 
legislation afi'ccting education. 
The Dolliver-Davis bill, pending the action of Congress, re- 
