The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-07-19

our agricultural and Industrial inter
ests, and other subjects that will pro-
mote business here and tend to stim-
ulate trade in all it's channels.
AS complaint has been made from
| Washington that former reports of the
Governor have been sent from here al
( too late date, will you kindly give
this subject your earliest attention and
obllge,
! Yours very truly,
A. l.. c. ATKINSON.
| Acting Governor.
WHAT MEMBERS SAID.
! C. NJ. V. Forster-I would suggest
| that a committee of three be appointed
to draw up resolutions to be reported
| to the Association as a whole"
j. O. Lutted-"I think the committee
presenting the report on the ship
ping matter has done 50 well already
that it could take hold of this matter
also and carry it through
w. w. lIall--"I favor the idea of a
report OF course suggestions could be
made"
I. S. Dillingham; think one of the
great troubles is the policy of people
here importing direct from the coast,
instead of purchasing through the
merchants. In our business l find that
is the root of all the evil Every steam
er that comes in on the American Ha-
waiian steamship line brings in i'm
ported goods for plantations on this is
land, namely. Eva, Waialua, Homo
lulu and Oahu. If there is any way
to prevent that then We may expect to
derive benefit.
"Of course the Honolulu plantation
Is obliged to buy on the coast because
the majority of the stock is held there.
know of case where goods We're i'm
ported last week we could have sold
cheaper than the price they paid for
importing. 1t seems to me to be n
craze more than anything else. l be-
lieve if we can stop this we will all do
much better business"
w. w. Halt know of instances
where the plantations have imported
goods for years supply, but in the
end, from deterioration and other
causes, the goods cost them as much as
We would have charged for them If
they would patroniZe the Honolulu
merchants it would make better feel
ing all around
f.. A. McInerny-"I think the sug-
gestion of "A committee is good. That
body might also draw up a series of
questions and present them to the vari-
Gus members and firms here for an
swers to be put in writing"
Mr. Dillingham; spoke to Mr.. Ir-
win about this plantation matter, and
h, hA l,nl
plantations in his agency to purchase
here whenever possible, but of course
this could not be entirely expected of
plantations whose stock would be con-
troled on the coast"
Edgar Lewis-"Mr. POLITE told me
when he was last here that he would
take this very matter before the boards
of directors of Paahou and Hutchinson
and he felt certain that
goods for those plantations would be
purchased in the islands
when the last American fleet was
here | was informed that 300 tons of
freight came here from the coast for
the warships. | think if we took this
matter up with the authorities at
Washington we could have 1t arranged
that the vessels should purchase sup
plies needed when in Honolulu"
Mr. Hocklng-"I would suggest that |
attention again be called to the prac-
tice of having transports coal at Ma
gasaki instead of at Honolulu. They
ought to coal here-an American port
and stop longer. They stop a long
time in the Japanese port"
Mr.. Gartenburg-"W need co-opera-
tion here If only for one thing. The
Portuguese are leaving here in great
numbers by every steamer and about
a thousand have gone away in the
past two years, They are quite a vital
element to trade here, being of the
class that spends its money in the
Chairman Smith-"Mr. Gartenburg
has pointed out very important mat
ter. The loss of our population is one
OF the most vital matters to which we
can put our attention"
James Steiner-"There is one thing
which affects retail merchants. We
have a great amount OF peddling from
house 10 house of imported goods. This
interferes with legitimate business, of
firms that pay taxes. rents, clerk hire
ANA many other expenses"
Chairman Smlth-"Peddlar are sell
Ing dry-goods etc They should come
uudor the provisions OF the license tax
law"
Mr. norndt-"The kcy-note NJ the
whole discussion, 10 seems to me- II the
lose Of population"
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