Bits of News from Hamakua and Kohala

Aloha nui kakou, readers of the Hoku o Hawaii and my fellow news writers from Maui, Kauai, the two Kona [North and South], and the Children of Kamehameha Schools.

I’ve read the news you all have written filling the columns of our Hoku o Hawaii. All that you all have written to fill our newspaper have been fine. That is the way we should do it. Should I be put aside, I will support those who KOKUA. Should you not have material, I will give aid here. If we all are without, our children from the Kamehameha School will give support, along with that good friend, Simeona Nawaa. Do send more news from the capitol. We give appreciation for your choice news.

Your news writer has returned from her wandering in Honolulu. Honolulu is great, along with all the great many things God has created, as well as all that man is carrying out. Where it is hot, that is what I don’t like, the air of Honolulu. We in the countryside are better off. With this cool air which you and I breathe; there is life there within.

With the recent start of Honokaa School this year, there has been seen a severe drop in the number of children. Like this:

These past days, the number of children attending school has rebounded.

Four new teachers came to Honokaa School this year, their names being:

Mrs. Spaulding, librarian for the school; taking the place of Mrs. Grant who left.

Mr. Lim, fitness teacher and baseball.

Mrs. Lim, science and math teacher.

Mr. Moon, Farming and Agriculture and Animal husbandry teacher.

The Hawaiian Women’s meeting was held in the hall of the Union Church several Thursdays ago. The officers were selected; Mrs. Hattie Reinhardt as president. She refused. Reselected was Mrs. Camella Herman as president; Mrs. Reinhardt as vice president; Mrs. Vikie Braun as secretary; Mrs. Vic Burke as treasurer; and Rev. A. Poepoe as adviser.

Four members joined. They being Mrs. Piilani Needham, Mrs. Mary Bell, Mrs. Nellie Kamaka and Mrs. Dorothy Poepoe.

The Haole Women’s Board of Hamakua held their meeting last Thursday in the lobby of the Honokaa Library. Mr. Olsen paid a visit, from the Kilauea Park, and he talked on the subject of the birds of the Volcanic Crater, while showing pictures of the birds.

On the Wednesday of last week, in the evening, the teachers and parents held their meeting and introduced themselves. In the introduction by the President, Mr. Poepoe, pertaining to his thoughts on parents at home, was the idea that they should not be lax in the children’s studies, and that they should let them always go to school. If the child is sick, that is a proper reason for the parents to keep the child at home. After the meeting, the parents were fed a snack.

KAMUELA:—Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smart returned along with their baby boy. The first child is Anthony, the second is Gilliard, named for the grandfather who has gone to the other world. They are living at their home in Puuopelu, at the previous residence of Hanai and Keoni Paka [Hannah and John Parker]. This coming Thursday, the second baby will be baptized at the church where Richard and his first child were baptized. After the baptism of the youngest child, everyone will return to eat at Barabara hall, with Mr. Hartwell Carter and the workers of Parker Ranch and their families.

KAWAIHAE:—The new homes of William Akau and his younger brother, Solomon Akau, have been completed. They are beautiful houses, and it is a sign of progress for Kawaihae. Now who else?

This past sabbath, Mr. William Kalaiwaa and Mrs. Kalaiwaa and David Manuia  went to Kalahikiola in North Kohala. Mr. Kalaiwaa is the head Kahu of the Sunday Schools of two Kohala [North Kohala and South Kohala] and Hamakua.

On that day, they were holding the Sunday School Hoike at Kalahikiola. Pastor Likikini presides as kahu of the Church. Everything that took place was fine. After the hoike was through, Pastor Likikini took Mr. and Mrs. Kalaiwaa and Manuia back to Kawaihae.

Drenching raindrops fell at Kawaihae these past days. The kamaaina of this area were glad to receive rain. They hope the rain will fall again so that the soil remains damp, for they have planted much sweet potato.

We saw in the English newspaper of Honolulu that Judge Thomas Haae grew weary of this life at the Queen’s Hospital in Honolulu last week. We have great aloha and regret for Thomas Haae. We met up with him in Honolulu in June during the [church] Island-wide Convention, and it was not known that he was in weak condition.

We will no longer meet at the Church, Sunday School, and C. E. events.

To the widow, Mrs. Thomas Haae, to you goes our aloha, and let your thoughts be lightened. The path that he has taken is the same path that we shall take on our last days. ALOHA.

[Mrs. Reinhardt was the news correspondent for Hamakua and Kohala to the newspaper Hoku o Hawaii.]

(Hoku o Hawaii, 10/15/1941, p. 1)

Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXVI, Number 25, Page 1. Okatoba 15, 1941.