In Honolulu working people can live comfortably on low wages,—in a greater degree of comfort than in any other community of which I have knowledge,—but in practically every family there is more than one wage-earner—the wife and children contributing their quota, however small. Only the tenements, the best of which afford no decent privacy to families, are open to the man with a family who earns $1.00 or even $1.50 a day, if he is the sole wage-earner. Your Oriental population is demonstrating its wish for better standards of living by the avidity with which it is building itself homes and sending its children to school. Its morals will no doubt improve when, as a group of Chinese young people said to a Mission class leader, they “have a better example set them by representative white citizens.” I believe that a Commission appointed by the Governor to look into wage conditions in Hawaii, and their relation to the cost of living, would clarify the whole Hawaiian labor situation, both at home and abroad. Such a commission for the study of the wages of women and minors, was created in Massachusetts in 1911, as follows: “_Resolved_, That the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, shall appoint a Commission of five persons, citizens of the Commonwealth, of whom at least one shall be a woman, one shall be a representative of labor, and one shall be a representative of employers, to study the matter of wages.” Its report recommended an Act not only establishing a Minimum Wage Board, but also providing for the determination of minimum wages for women and minors. Sections 3 and 4 of this Act provide: “SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the commission to inquire into the wages paid to the female employes in any occupation in the Commonwealth if the commission has reason to believe that the wages paid to a substantial number of such employes are inadequate to supply the necessary cost of living and to maintain the worker in health.