The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-07
A SPLENDID SHOWING
HOW HAWAIIANs HANDLE LARGE
AMOUNTS.
Territorial Postal Money order statis-
tics Show Hawaii to DO the Greatest
Average Business.

An interesting statement has been
issued by G. d. Linn, inspector in
charge of the post Office department of
the Hawaiian Islands, showing i'm tab
ulated form the money orders paid and
issued in this territory for the year of
1901, both for domestic and iuternatiOn4
al business. Mr.. Linn is proud of the
showing made by Hawaii which is pro-
badly greater than any other state
ment that could be issued anywhere
in relation to the number of offices and
their respective rating
The average value of the domestic
orders is four times greater than the
general average on the mainland, while
all through the money order business
the amounts of Hawaiian money or
ders rank extremely high. The fifty
four fourth class offices, which issued
nearly one and a half million dollars
worth of domestic orders make a Won
derful showing, the large amounts be-
ing due, says Inspector Linn, to the
money orders sent by the Japanese to
the Yokohama Specie Bank i'm sums
oftener than not aggregating 800. The
high average of Lihue is due also to
the number of japanese employed in
the neighborhoOd whose thriftiness
swells the profits of Uncle Sans pos
tai business and makes the Hawaiian
post office a valuable asset to the ma
tion.
The Hawaiian money order business
has perhaps only been surpassed by
Nome in it's palmy days when as a
third class office, in one month $780, 900
worth of orders were issued. The aver
age amounts of money orders bought
lin Honolulu run to twenty dollars
apiece while those paid, owing to the
thrifty Japanese, average forty dollars
per order.
In,
haina and the fourth class offices aver
age thirty and Wailuku and Lihue
forty dollars and over, for every pur-
chase. In money orders paid, outside
of Honolulu, Hilo Lahaina, Wailuku
and the flourish class offices average
twenty dollars and Lihue thirty. The
authorities at Washington will note
that Hawaii deals in large sums of mo-
ney, the average values Of the orders
issued being stupendOus when cOmpar-
ed with those of certain New England
| offices. The average amount of each
| order issued runs as follows: Dome
| site, $685. International, $26.29. Those
| paid: Domestic $34.O9; International
| S2l.49. The average amount of each
\ order issued on the mainland is some
/ thing over seven dollars or a quarter
OF the Hawaiian average
| Inspector Linn is anxious to still fur
| ther increase the showing made by this
] territory and points out a fact that
seems little known, that money orders
may be sent to any part of Canada at
! exactly the same rates as in the United
| States. This has now been in effect
! several months.
Referring to the safety of Uncle
| Samuels system as against banks and
other organizations for the transfers
of money the inspector points trium-
! phantly to the following statistics
| where in the last two years the en-
ployes of the government system paid
63, 393,S76 orders amounting to $500 674, e
99G54, over half a billion, not half a
million dollars, out of which the loss tC
the department was $172.45 something
like three milliOnth part of one pei
cent, an incalculable, infnitesimal moi.
ETY. less than would be lost in friction
by the natural process Of counting tn,
money a task which in silver dollars
a man, counting steadily at the rate
Of two a second for eight hours every
day. three hundred and thirteen days
i'm the year with no holidays eXcep
Sundays would take twenty-five year!
| To accomplish. The tables drawn up b,
Mr.. Linn read as follows: