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Principal Edgar Wood, of the Normal School, urged at several 
meetings the consideration of industrial education, and the asso- 
ciation expressed its approval of the following plan for this Ter- 
ritory : 
On each of the four islands, Kauai, Oahu, Maui and Hawaii, 
schools shall be established contiguous to important centers of 
mdustry. These schools to give training in agriculture, home 
economics, trades and industries. This instruction to be given in 
field, garden, kitchen and shops, and to be of such practical nature 
as to enable the pupils at the end of the course to take up work 
in connection with the respective industries at remunerative 
wages. 
The type school for such a system is as follows : A school shall 
be established in a given locality when twenty-five students can be 
assured. The attendance of all boys and girls between the ages 
of 14 and 18, both inclusive, who are not otherwise wisely and 
profitably employed, shall be required. The equipment of the 
school shall consist of a farm of not less than 25 acres, to be in- 
creased in proportion to the number of boys attending by 2J/2 
acres per boy, and to be equipped with essential hand tools. A 
shop equipped to meet the needs of the industries of the neighbor- 
hood. Residence buildings provided with sanitary and culinary 
equipment for properly housing and feeding the pupils. Students 
shall be remunerated for their work in accordance with current 
value, or profit-sharing. Students shall work the first two years 
on the farm or in the shops of the school, and the last two years 
one-half of each day in the fields or shops of the industry of the 
locality. The rest of each day will be devoted to the study of 
related academic subjects — mathematics, geography, reading and 
writing, etc. The Department of Public Instruction will engage 
and pay all instructors. The industry will supply lands, buildings 
and equipments, and pay the students working for them in fields, 
shops, etc. The school shall cultivate the land set apart by the 
industry, and pay the pupils part of the proceeds of the crop. 
Among the very important papers of the year were those relat- 
ing to the general welfare of the schools. President Horne, of 
the Kamehanieha Schools, delivered a most helpful address on 
"Increasing the Efficiency of Hawaii's Schools," a lucid exposi- 
tion of practical attainment of greater powers for service. '*Ha- 
waiian Schools and Citizenship," by Dr. Scudder, of Central 
Union Church, laid fitting emphasis upon the necessity for train- 
ing our young people toward moral and civic responsibility. Mr. 
W. A. Bowen, at a special meeting for the consideration of the 
needs of our schools as related to possible legislative action, spoke 
forcefully upon ''Public Interest and the Schools." 
Many other features of the year's work might be dwelt upon, 
but the above synopsis at least indicates the forward spirit that 
has ever characterized the actions of the association. There are 
many defects that will gradually right themselves — greater soli- 
