The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-26

but look into, and take the opportunity
offered, would be benefited. Those k9-
nakas are the best workers for the
.i"pLeS L ever saw and they are the
pest for the community because thew
are spenders. Nobody ever heard of \
South sea Islander going into a bank
ana cuylng exchange to send back IA
the family
Queensland is throwing aside the
dement's that have been derived from
me presence OF that class of labor All
through little sentiment and the 5000
iaboreFs are TO be sent away. Why
GOES not Hawaii reach out and get
themE White labor is dream. not a
reallty, IN any tropical country; thou-
SANDS OF dollars have been spent in ex-
peflmentlng IN this way without salts
Factory result. To get rid of the blacks
queensland win spend sixty thousand
pounds IN deportation expenses. The
sugar industry in Australia is costing
the consumer five million dollars a wear
and this amount, it is stated. eould he
saved and the entire demand of Aus
tralla supplied if the government wouId
permit 10000 kanakas to live and work
there instead of trying to kill off the
the fields as laborers. No white man
is suited for work in the Australian
tropics nor in any other part of the
world where the conditions are similar.
1t has been demonstrated that the
women can not live the life and
that the children are weaklings. Often
the mortality among the females and |
the children becomes alarming.
LAND PROBLEM OF VICTORIA.
Victoria is confronted by a great |
land problem, similar, [ believe, in I
certain details, to that which confronts /
the people of Hawaii. The greatest |
concern of the people there is the at
tempt to break up the large estates for
closer settlement and so check the
steady flow of emigration into New
South Wales and Queensland, an emf
grafton which results in a heavy an
1uai loss to her workmen. During theI
past five years the loss of adult male |
has been 100000 and there
ire fewer there today between the ages
If twenty-five and forty-fve than at
my time for the past twenty years
Australia wants population. Her peo-
de are but narrow fringe around the
'dge of continent. Her birth rate
s nearly the lowest in the world and
$ decreasing and the people realize
hat something must be done, that there
must be promotion on the same lines
IS the United States and Canada pro-
notes the advantages of their local
ties. In Australia immigration is at
standstill, but look at Canada. One
undred thousand Americans have been
aturalized there and Australia is Sc
iously thinking of following the same
curse.
FIJI IN SUGAR.
Fiji is developing large sugar
usiness and L have no doubt many
f the kanakas that are driven out of
australia will go there. The Germans Il.
re keen for labor and these people
ford a good source of supply. ,
ave no doubt South Africa would take
hem if they could be obtained for the
instead of the Manchurians
hey are taking on account of the
efusal of Curzon to. allow the Indian
Oolies to go over. They are a better
lass of men and women and better
'orkmen. They are more acceptable ]
ecause they are free from the vices
D Objectionable in the Chinese. They :
o not indulge in fantan and they ,
ill not smoke opium nor demorallze !
omen. In Malay there is large
lumber of Chinese coolies, but they :
re controlled by one of their own
aOple. Lohk Hew, the owner of one
the largest estates in that country,
as sixty thousand of them in his en-
lov and he knows how to handle
lem. He is wise Individual who
DIES over his elegant estate in an
automobile and has a white chauffeur
RUBBER IN CEYLON.
"There are plenty of Scots engaged
I the rubber industry in Ceylon. ]
ave one of them on one of my es ]
,tes who was formerly on one of
our islands, Hawaii l think, with Mr..
emery. He is from Kurriemuir and
one of the best rubber experts in
he settlements. Another one, j. Dun
IN, who started in topping turnips, is
the head of the business of Steele
rothers and enjoys an income of about
lirty thousand pounds a year. He
ow lives in London. Some of them
ere engaged in the sugar business =
Australia and Queensland and did Y
ell But Queensland can not expect
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