The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-23


| CASTLE & COOKE,
| THEo. II. DAVIES & Co..
w. D. Smith moved reference of
both these matters to a special
committee of three, to report as
early as possible
Mr. Glade thought this matter Of
an experimental station was so i'm
portant that il should not be mixed
up with anything else. Such
station would pay the planters
many times over. The main thing
was to get good man, and per-
haps il would be well to get one d.
rect from Germany, recommended
by an experimental station there.
The difficulty was that such man
would probably not be able to speak
a word of English. It would be
better to get a man who had spent
a year or two in the United States.
Mr.. Baldwin, thought Mr.. Glade
was right. The matter OF the ex-
perimental station had nothing to
do with the Bureau of Information.
He thought the matter of answering
letters, ETC., could be attended to
by the Secretary, who could en-
ploy an assistant to do the work.
After some desultory discussion
a special committee, consisting of
Messrs. Glade, Bolte and Baldwin,
was appointed to investigate the
matter of an experimental station
and report to the Trustees.
The trustees were authorized to
make an assessment of 1! cents
per ton, and to increase it to 2
cents if necessary, to meet the eX-
penses of Mr.. Koebele's work.
Mr.. Bolte reported for the Labor
Committee.
The report is as follows:
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
LABOR.
To the President of the Planters
Labor & Supply Company, Homo
lulu:
SIR: Since the last report of this
committee was made to the p. i. &
s. Co., there have been the following
arrivals and departures of japanese
and Chinese:
Japanese. Chinese.
Men men Men men
Arrived, up TO and
including Miiki
Maru, Oct. o, '93 4435 1121 $50 lis
Left, mp to and in
Guiding Oceanic,
Oct. Is, '93......... 20S4 452 1129 81
Excess of arrivals. 2351 $50 80 4S
most of whom may be available as
agricultural laborers.
Rates of wages for day laborers have
been during the year and are now
about the same as they were last year,
whilst modification has been made
in the wages of laborers who came
under contract from Japan, and also
in the charges for bringing these Ia
borers. By these notifications the
wages and expenses for such contract
laborers have been reduced to about
the same sum as that paid for wages
alone to day laborers. Day laborers
have been offering freely, and your
committee have not learned of any
difficulty in obtaining laborers during
the last twelve months.
The foregoing figures show a large
preponderence of japanese over Chi
nese. The japanese laborer is indus
trious, obedient, intelligent and
handy, of cheerful disposition and
readily exchanges many of his home
habits for the forms of Western civili-
zation; he is, therefore, valuable
addition to the Hawaiian population
as laborer and settler, but as some
of our planters prefer having laborers
of different nationalities, it might be
advisable to encourage immigration
of Chinese agricultural laborers to
VIM. w. GooDALE,
j. u. ATHERTo
Committee on La Dor.
Honolulu, Oct 80, 1898.
Committees on Machinery, Man
ufactures, Live Stock and Recipro-
city had no reports.
Mr. Marsden said he had nothing
new To offer on the subject of tobac-
co. Mr.. Chas. Wilcox had grown
some Sumatra tobacco. but it was
badly cured. He had some at the
Government nursery, and would
exhibit it tomorrow.
Mr.. Glade had grown some and
sent it to Germany. It had been
made into cigars, but unfortunately
they would not burn.
Mr.. Marsden said he had some
cigars which would burn, with a
white ash, as he would prove.
The report of the Committee on