Earthquake on Maui, 1938.

Damage Done By The Earthquake

The picture above is a picture of Joseph Matson, the Engineer of Maui, inspecting an area where the road was split at the pali of Waialua, a little above Keanae. This was done by the earthquake a few weeks ago.

Boulders fell and hit this storehouse of the Standard Oil Company. Oil leaked out of the oil drums as a result of the earthquake a few weeks ago on Maui.

(Hoku o Hawaii, 2/9/1938, p. 3)

Ka Hana A Ka Ola'i

Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXI, Number 40, Aoao 3. Feberuari 9, 1938.

Western medical school for Hawaiians, 1870.

Kahunas.

We understand that one of our physicians, who is thoroughly conversant with the native language, has been authorized to form a class of eight or ten Hawaiian young men, (graduates of the highest schools,) for instructions in the principles and practice of medicine.

There has never been made, that we are aware of, any systematic or earnest effort to instruct Hawaiian youth in the medical art. The knowledge that is necessary to be acquired to make a skillful and thoroughly competent practitioner is not to be obtained in this country, which as yet, does not possess medical schools and colleges, and the difficulties in the way of sending Hawaiian pupils abroad to obtain a medical education, are so various and insurmountable, as almost to preclude any hope of being overcome. Continue reading