The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-14

tute ON Saturday night, was said by
those who heard it to be the best con
| sldered deliverance on the subject tina
| mas yet been presented to the organiza
tion. In line with the proposition OF
the pineapple growers to combine ant
| control their market and the prices OF
their products by refusing absolutely tc
ship on consignments, thereby forcing
per is most timely:
| SOME ADVA NTAGES OF
COOPERATIVE MARKETING
The various agricultural enterprises
| in these Islands are confronted by mar
ket conditions both as to purchase of
supplies and the disposition of their
practically unknown on the
| mainland.
Twenty-one hundred miles distance
by water lies between the local port of
entry and the nearest mainland port
with which we can exchange commodi-
ties
Add to this the untoward local con-
dltions confronting the majority of ag-
rlculturists in getting supplies to their
several holdings or their output to the
most convenient port of shipment and
you have before you the initial cause
of the individual grower s lament.
Couple with these factors the con-
stantly varying prices for supplies re-
quired in preparing the crop for market
on the one hand, and fuctuation in re-
TN Shi ant Of vi
caused in part by claims for loss on
over-ripe or understood fruit, poor
packing, or overheating en- route, forced
sale on account of glut in the mar
ket through overshipments and finally
inability to enforce prompt settlements
after sales are made and you write the
seamy experiences of nine out of every
ten agriculturists in this Territory.
Much of the disappointment touched
upon in the last paragraph is the direct
result of unorganized individual effort,
ignorance of market conditions and of
the parties to whom products are con-
signed for sale, with the immediate
consequences that advantage is taken
of the absence of supervision in the in
terest of the grower and resulting in
the. pairing down of account sales for
causes already noted.
Such experiences as these and the
rapid increase in output should point
the necessity of individual growers get
ting together on some basis of joint ac
tion in order to avoid the inevitable re-
suits of procrastination.
It is highly essential to the success
of any joint effort that those associat
ing themselves should do so for the
common good
Men cannot cooperate successfully
if the sole bond between them is self
interest
Effort should be made to operate for
the general welfare in the purchase and
of the necessary supplies, |
in securing equitable carrier rates both
local and to the mainland, to secure
better service by guaranteeing to car
riers a stipulated amount of freight IN
of proper provision for
its storage and care in transit; to Sc
cure the services of a competent man to !
look after the care and distribution of |
fruit at the mainland port; report con-
dition of goods on arrival; pass on all
claims for deductions and to adopt |
such means for the extension of the
market as may be approved from time |
to time by the association.
The expense of such a man would be
saved every month in commissions on
purchases and increased returns on con-
signments consequent on his personal
of shipments and collec-
tons. While these would be among
the immediate advantages the more
permanent results of his efforts would |
be found in the extension of business /
and preparedness for mar
keting a constantly increasing quantity
Of fresh fruit-this work would be done
at intervals between arrival of CON
signments.
Attached hereto is tabulation of
imports of bananas and pineappies into
the United States for the three years
preceding July l, 1903.
While these figures loom up big as COM
pared with our present output, vet they
show a consumption of only one bunc1
IF bananas per year for every three or
the population and an even smaller
of pineapples and sucA
averaging ten to the cuDlc
foot.
While these figures indicate that
here is room at the top for all the
fruit this Territory can raise IN the
next twenty years, wise counseis must
prevail and the market possibilities ne
exploited with the same earnestneSs
md enthusiasm as is being evinced IN
he present extension OF acreage n
ruit.
no enterprise can be made successful
yhcn handicapped with excessive and
discriminating carrier s charges. Sug tr
,arried from mill to port ut three r''nts
,er ton per mile of haul. while fru't
,ays from four to six times this amount
or the same service, is a condition to
which individual effort is poweriess to
lpply the remedy >.
we have now had about six years OF
Tncle Sam $ influence in these Islands,
nut there are still wharves ana landings
yhere notices informing you that
foods. wares and merchandise can be
anded only upon payment Of the |
fees to some corporation,
IRE prominently displayed.
Concerted action is necessary IN
iealing with problems of the kind here
nabove alluded to.
Co-operation is needed to secure ia
Ink lo1r;-f. 4ix-a action on the mat