The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-03-22

here have come into the country
!, OA Japanese, and acquisitions have
been filed with the Board Of Immi-
grafton for immediate requirement |
Tor 100 Japanese and 600 Portu-
guese.
The large increase of laborers dur
ing the period has not been caused
by the opening Of any new planta-
tons, but by the simple expansion of
existing ones. There is no reason to
believe that there will be any less
expansion during the coming than
the last period.
Three new plantations have been
commenced during the last three
months, which. during the coming
period, will require not less than
1900 laborers; and three or four
more are contemplated, and will pro-
badly be started within that time,
with probable requirement of not
less than LOCO men.
A tabulated statement of the lab
orers now on the plantations and an
estimate of those who will be re-
CURED during the period is then as
follows.
On the plantations Jan, 1, 1890. IT 1875
Additions since January LIST. $500. 1,O64
Estimated requirements of new
plantations .................. 900
Estimated requirements of exist
ing plantations, say. ......... 5000
Estimated totat Of laborers re-
quired on the plantations
January, 1892. ....... "a, 759
If all the laborers now on the plan
tations remain where they are until
January, 1892, the plantations will
require, upon a conservative esti-
mate, $500 additional laborers in the
next twenty. one months, if the legi-
innate expansion and prosperity of
the industry is to be continued. But
there is no reason to believe that all
the laborers now on the plantations
will remain there during the next
two years. On the contrary, there is
certainty that as large a number
will leave as did during the last two
years, and probably more, from the
fact that the sudden expansion in the
banana business and the present and
prospective activity in the railroad
building of the country, will pro-
badly draw away from the planta-
tions more laborers than left them
during the last two years.
A close estimate of the number OF
laborers leaving the plantations dur
ing the two years last past can be
obtained from the fact that there
were placed upon the plantations
through the Board of Immigration
1877 laborers, while the total in
crease Of laborers for the same pc
Rod was only 1855, showing that
the difference or 1851 of the immi-
grant laborers introduced, were re.
quired to supply the places of those
laborers who had left the planta-
tiens during the period. Even if nc
more left than did during the last
two years, there will be required to
fill the places of those who will
leave, say 1900, which added to
$500, the number above estimated
to be required by expansion and new
plantations, makes total of 1O.4OC
additional laborers required during
the period, without taking into con.
sideration the additional laborert
who will be required by the con
struction of the Oahu and Hamakus
and Hilo railroads, and other enter
prises of which there is fair pros
pect.
| IF the industries of the Kingdom
are to continue to increase anc
prosper, these additional laborers
must be obtained.
| For the immediate present, Jap
anese are available under the exist
ing terms of contract, and probably
some Portuguese can be obtained.
/ The questions for consideration
are, where are these 1O,4OO laborerl
4 to come from?
| Can the country or the plantation
with safety, add such large number
| in so short a time to the number O
Asiatics already here!
i Is there any other source from
which laborers can be obtained!
Is there any method of coopera
ton which can be engaged in, b,
which so large q number of laborer
can be prevented from leaving tn
plantations each year and thereb,
preventing the necessity of such
large immigration to fill such vacan
cies?
1t IS necessary that early an,
definite action be taken concernin,
this subject, and for the purpose o
ascertaining the views and opinion