The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-10-17
THE PLANTERS IN COUNCIL.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE P. L. & S. Co.

The third annual meeting of the Planters Labor
& Supply Co., was convened at the Armory III this
city, at 10 AM. on the 18th inst. The time for the
departure of the Oceanic S. S. Co. steamer Mari
,osa with the outward mails for San Francisco, and
also carrying number of friends of the assembled
planters to the Coast as passengers, being set at
noon, caused an immediate adjournment of the
meeting until 1.3O Pm. At this latter hour the
planters again assembled and the meeting was
called to order the following shareholders
present; E. p Adams, p. C. Jones Jr Charles
Motley, T. Kay, C. Koelling, W. o. Smith, A. Unna,
W. H Rickard, F. A. Schaefer, L. H. Davies, II. II.
Atkins, c. Isenberg, j. B. Atherton, s. b, Dole, r..
Halstead George Dole A. Baldwin, W. ii. Bailey,
X. A. Macfee, j. Hackfeld, ii. NJ. Whitney, j.
Thompson, G. C. Williams, q. n. Wilcox, J. N.
Wright, j. H. Patty, @. Kinnersley and W. Maer-
tens. The number of shares represented footed
up 1866 out of total of 1890
Before proceeding to business, Mr.. L. Z. Jones'
the chairman, addressed the meeting as follows:
Gentlemen Of the Planters Labor and Supply Co.:
Col. Spalding, President of this Society, being
absent, 1t devolves upon me, as NlcePresldenti 10
open our annual meeting this year Dnr1nR the
past wear the Trustees have had great many
meetings. 36 in all, and much of their time mas
been taken up in the interests OF the Society.
While we have not been successful IN some OF our
efforts as we had hoped, 1t has been through no
fault of the Trustees who feel have done all III
their power for the good of this Association. Some
of friends have felt that the trustees have not
done their duty in securing labor from among the
large number of Chinese arrived here last spring.
The whole matter was placed in the hands of the
Secretary but there was combination among
the Chinese which was successful on their part,
and every attempt made by us TO compromise
with them was fairly defeated. y tull account
will be given by the Secretary in his report TO you
Tie expenditures during the past year, as will be
by the Treasurer report, have been unusually
large A large outlay has been made IN httlnG opt
the brig Hasdrd for supply of labor, all of which
will be returned on her arrival whether successful
not.
You will no doubt have a committee appointed
to look into the details of expenditures, as 1t Will
not be advisable to take time III reading OH long
array of figures when matters of more Importance
will occupy your valuable time. The committee
will no doubt be able to satisfy you that all expen-
dtures, have been made wholly in the interests OF
the Society.
will not trespass longer as much work has to be
done and many long and valuable reports to the
presented.
You will now give your attention to the reading
of the minutes of the last meeting after which the
annual report of the Secretary will be in order.
Mr.. L. p. Adams, the Secretary, then read the
minutes of the previous meeting held January SIN,
which were accepted and approved, after which
the same gentleman read an exhaustive and inter
esting report collated by him, of the dongs OF the
Society since the last annual meeting. This An
nual Report with appendix will be found, IN detail
On motion of Mr.. W. o. Smith the report was
approved, ordered to print, and copies to be FUR
nished the members.
Mr.. Halstead, for the treasurer, asked for an
extension of time until the morrow for the pro-
duction OF the financial report.
The next order of business, election of trustees
for the ensuing year, was laid over until the next
day.
Mr.. S. I. Alexander suggested that time might
be well occupied III listening TO the reporis OF the
committees appointed at the last annual meeting
and on motion of Mr.. S. b. Dole, it was decid
that the chairmen of the various committees be
called on for their reports
The effort to obtain the production of reports at
this meeting futile, however, none of the com
mittees being III readiness.
Mr.. c. Koeiling presented paper on the Difu-
sion Process in the Manufacture of Sugar, which,
after being read by the secretary, provoked some
little discussion, and the paper was finally COM
mitted to the care of a committee of three, con-
sisting of Messrs. Koelling, A. Young and ii. L.
Baldwin for examination
Hon. H. NJ. Whitney read a personal communi-
cation from the Hon. Jonathan Austin, of Hilo,
relative to the knowledge of Mr.. j. Tucker of the
sugar business of Jamaica, and, on motion of Mr..
instructed TO invite MIR. Tucker to be present at
the meeting of the planters, and, at some suitable
time, to deliver an address.
Mr. w. o. Smith drew the attention of the
members to the insuffciency in tenure of the
present contracts with minors, and referred to the
decision of Chief Justice Judd, in which the con
tracts furnished by the Government were held to
be void, as the minors were not regularly appren-
ticed.
Mr.. p. C. Jones stated that when the Portuguese
immigrants arrived the Government were usually
IN hurry to get them off its hands, but that the
contracts for the people were not Obtalnabe Tor q
long time after. The clerks in the office had a
habit of treating the agents cayalierly. The
speaker desired to know if that had been the ex-
perence of other agents.
Mr.. ]. b. Atherton stated that there was little
doubt but that all the agents had the same cause
of complaint, as they had all been treated about
alike.
Mr.. G. C. Williams proposed that Il committee
be appointed to wait upon the President of the
Board of Immigration and endeavor to arrange
matters more satisfactorily. No one seemed in
clined to second the motion, in fact the proposition
caused considerable laughter.
Further discussion ensued on the subject of the
employment of minors but no action was taken
and at 3.15 the meeting adjourned until next morn
ing at 10 AM.