The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-22
HAWAIIAN FRUIT EXCHANGE.


In the July August numbers OF this magazine the q
eanizaon of Hawaiian growers for their own com
mon benefit particularly in the matter OF narketig n
products was advocated recommended General Grant
as President United States, said lhe Dest way -
Obtain resumption specie payment TO resume specie
payment may say that the best way TO Dng ABOUT
an organization of uitgrowers in this Territory IS Ior
them to organize This is what the planters ala more
than twenty years ago. and their OF organization
has been that millions it. Long ago the nel-
chants of Honolulu organized in Chamber of Commerce
to promote the broader commercial of Honolulu
in particular islands general Recently count
e bv wears another mercantile organization has sprung
into being in our capital cityhe Merchants As
after the details OF local trade and secure
ton for the communitys welfare just seen the
business of Hio and Wailuku, respectively form
fecve organizations The live stock alser OF the lerI
tory also, longer and tWos but constitute
that dealing with their common affairs in
the of business corporation.
What mercantile bodies of Honolulu have accom-
pshed prosecuting for the benefit OF commerce
and trade well their great services to the country at
large periods of and occasions when
expression would make book of bulk. There is
catalogue all of the other organizations in the
Hawaiian Islands which since the dawn OF civilization her
have effective for human welfare under diverse
of purposes Not it that competition the
life of trade than that organization the motive power OF
doing things.
Let uit-growers then organize. 1t may be prac
tcabe all of them together the instant of
inception Enough of them though within Journey to
Honolulu assemble for the formation of goody nucleus
There doubt that given form the organization
would speedily attain effective substance of membership
The conditions of the fruit industry in Hawaii ripe for
all work together only
for recognized standing but honest treatment IN the
thing is haphazard here as well as there No producer
knows what he is going get in matter what
the real condition of the market be- until he hears from
dead-and alive fruitere in Honolulu member of the
San Francisco In many instances of
has previously cited the example OF California as one for
Hawaiian frut-growers to emulate If the greatest fruit
of Union would be beyond their ambition
select model then take Florida when its uitgrowers
first st, organized d as more near our size
When the Florida Fruit Exchange was organized and be-
business IN 1884 the whole OF the State
was only 100000 boxes From recent local discussion on
the subject OF reorganization condense the following rec
ord of what the Florida Fruit Exchange accomplished
late period when disasters from frost supernduced
porary paralysis of the organization. At the time the
change organized, the fruit of Florida
perpeed to know how protably market their fruit The
commission had the entire control OF the business and
the results unsatisfactory that of self
frugrowers. AS already stated the crop but
boxes Seven years later reached nearly four mil
lion boxes The exchange had IN two cardinal prin
cples. One for the shipper the full
for his The other to make that return
made it point bring into operation competition of
nu at % saie @ 10 uaS b use
increased year by year. the result of confidence
management During the first seven years of its existence
paid 100000 without the defalcaton of
reduced commissions collected claims
$4,000 it also kept down price box materials and
reduction of freight charges The Exchange kept
in touch by telegraph with all the fruit markets
of country, and the growers trustworthy
letns of market When the Florida Fruit Exchange
organized it entirely unknown and had
fight way against the combined opposition of the
mission OF the whole country.
There nothing that the Florida organization did which
could be DONE far the parallel by Ha
waan Fruit Exchange for the benefit of fruit industry
1t the province of this article draft the lines of
ton for such organization other than general way
One of the principal functions of the body should be the
tablishng and maintaining of fruit depot Honolulu
under the management OF thoroughly dependable man.
both systematic the local marketing of fruit and
the exporting to the mainland of combined lots of fruit
from small producers Then San Francisco the
tepa of the home depot agency under the direction of
the Exchange should be established and maintained
tails of management of these establishments
there be discussed for doubt they will competently
handled by the Exchange when organized The great OBJ
jects be obtained the systematic marketing
ian fruit here and and the protection of
growers from every species of fraud imposition
THE CULTIVATION OF VANILLA IN HAWAII