The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-25
FOR SUSPEND|NG
COASTW|SE LAW
Action by Commercial Bodies
Suggested in Promotion
Committee.


present: F. L. Waldron, J. A Nc
Candless, j. L. Mclean, w. T. Lucas
| Willard E. Brown, H. P. Wood There
were few matters of Importance taker
| up during the meeting, the most sig
nificant being when the matter OF
steamers was being talked of and
Chairman F. L. Waldron made the
statement:
The sooner we can get the coast
wise shipping laws suspended the bet
ter. 1t is a matter which should be
taken up at once by the Merchants
Association and the Chamber of Com
merce, and for which we should make
hard fight
The members of the committee talk
ed over the shipping situation, but
decided that 1t was not a matter which
the committee should try to handle,
being work which was proper for the
commercial bodies to look after. Sew
eraI members gave their opinions on
the matter personally, but did not
wish to be quoted as members of the
Promotion Committee.
Willard E. Brown was appointed a
committee of one to make the neces-
sary preparations for the annual floral
parade and carnival which will take
place on February %. Secretary Wood
announced that a handsome poster, ad-
vertising the parade, had been almost
completed by James Wilder, the local
painter, and that it was to be pre-
scented to the committee.
The matter of certain criticisms of
the manner in which part of the work
Of the committee had been handled
was spoken of and brought forth the
remark from Chairman Waldron that
such criticisms were more than well
come, and that the committee was at
any time only too glad to receive sug-
gestions in regard to plans for work,
either by letter or made in person ct
the meetings, which take place every
Thursday afternoon.
A letter was read from D. Ward
King of the Missouri State Board of
Agriculture, stating that he was about
to make a trip to Australia to talk
on the subject of Good Roads," He
wrote he should like to deliver a lee
ture here and asked for cooperation
in the matter. Mr.. King is
one of the fathers of the "Split
log or king drag" methods of
road improvement, and is known all
over the United States from the work
he has done. A recent article of his,
published in the Saturday Evening
Post, has attracted a great deal of at
tention from the builders of country
roads.
lot xxyoC
from w. p. Colt of Stockton, Cal, and
read at the meeting. He states that
he will come to Honolulu this winter
to buy pineapples and ship them to
California, call peeled and cored," in
five-gallon tins. He asks a number of
questions, as to whether he will be
able to hire a pineapple peeler or will
have to employ a woman to do the
work by hand, and whether he can
buy four tons of pines here. From
the text of the letter it would be
imagined that Mr.. Colt believes Homo
lulu to be small village in the wilds.
where such a thing as canned fruit
has never been thought of.
SECRETARY WOODS REPORT.
Honolulu, October "a, 1907
Gentlemen: Letters continue to come
in from different American conSulates, |
the receipt Of our fold
ers. The latest to reply are Honorable
Edwin S. Cunningham, Consul at Dur |
ban, Natal, South Africa; Honorable |
Samuel L. Gracey, Consul at Foochow, |
China, and Honorable w. H. Micha1, |
Consul General at Calcutta, who /
writes as follows:
Il have your letter and also the |
descriptive of Hawaii; and |
shall use the latter to the best adj
on the lines you suggest.
What would a forty acre fruit farm
hear the Coast cost a chap who would
ike to live in Hawaii, at least a part
If the year, and devote himself to
outside work on a fruit farm? What
lind of fruit does the best and is
Quickest produced in Hawaii? I think
farm already producing would be the
hing"
Mrs. r. c. Miller, the correspondent
or Leslie's Weekly, writes that her
rticle on the Volcano is being widely
opted In her letter she goes on to
ay, "The article which will please
ou most will be the one on 'Automo-
ling in Hawaii describing the beau
Y spots of Honolulu, as we'll as the
urious and out of the way places"
Mr.. w. T. Robson, advertising agent
+ the Canadian Pacific Railway,
rites under date of October End: I'VE I
hank you for continued favors, in
luding recent copy of the Daily Ad-
ertiser, just received. You are en-
people,
Acknowledgements are coming to
and of our letter to the general pas c
enger agents of the different railway {
nd steamship companies throughout c
he United States and Canada, reIa- d
We to their annual convention. We
ave succeeded in causing, at least a +
ew of these men to again think of V
avail, if accomplishing nothing more.
Mr.. A. w. Crockett of Chico, Cali Il
'rnia, writes that he is arranging to d
i've series of talks on Hawaii to |
Is townspeople. n
Mr.. P. A. Swift, who is leisurely d
through California, con- c
nues to send us addresses of possible "
sitors, people of means and inclin-
TO travel, whom he has CHANGED Q
meet. n
Mr. K Weir IF raurtlao5 Ts,I; =.