The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-09
P|NEAPPLES AND
GRAPES ON MAUI
New Industries on the Valley
IsIand---Many Social
Happenings.

MAKAWAO, Maui, September T.
The Haiku Fruit and Packing Co. has
| increased it's output nearly hundred
| per cent. Last year its record was
IL, 900 cases of canned pineapples. This
year $4,000 cases is the estimate with
a winter crop of 10000 cases addition
al. This seems to warrant a new and
larger mandatory.
Another domestic industry that is
doing well is that of grape-growing
and wine-Tnaking at Kaupakalua. Last
year the winery pressed out 1900 gall
Ions of Burgundy, this year 1900 gall
Ions is anticipated in spite of the fact
that bad weather has injured the
grapes. The yield of grapes in the
Kaupakalua section this year was evil
IDENTIFY hundred per cent greater
than last year. Of the seventy-two
stockholders of the local wine COM
pany all with three or four exceptions
grow grapes and if the wine company
pIoNSS, SuEcSSS1uA Will lHCFGdSS the
area of their vineyards. At present
they are receiving thirty cents per
gallon for wine made of their grapes.
The wine company has about $1,000
gallons of wine in storage.
A reception will be given Rev. and
Mrs. Turner on Friday evening, the
18th.
Maunao1u Seminary, Paia, will open
on Wednesday, the 18th, Miss Heusner,
the principal, states that full school
is expected and that all pupils should
be prompt in entering.
Last Saturday, August 91st, Miss
Elizabeth Madison, the new music
teacher to succeed Miss ormerod, ar
rived on Maui. Miss Mattison is
graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory
of Music.
Plover are returning to the Maka-
wac pastures and pleasant shooting
will begin on the 18th. This recalls
the new hunting regulation that no
one Is allowed to hunt Garry a gun)
without paying an annual license fee
of five dollars. This rather severe
law was passed in order to prctecr the
game. 1t has been the custom in the
past for irresponsible people in certain
localities to slaughter birds indiscrim-
inately, not caring whether the birds
have broods of young or not.
Theodore Richards of Honolulu made
a brief business visit to Makawao last
week staying only one night.
Rev. and Mrs. A. S. Baker of Kona
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Nicoll
of Hamakuapoko. Mr.. Baker has been
quit i'll, but is better
Last Friday, August 30th, D. It.
Fleming of Grove Ranch departed for
the Coast for a vacation of several
months.
Father Edward has recently come to
Paia. He has charge of Catholic
churches at Paia, Puunene and other
places.
Geo. w. Wilbur and family will
locate at Los Angeles. His father has
already started a soda water manu-
factory there.
F. E. Atwater of Haiku has just re-
turned from the National Teachers |
Association meeting held at Los An
geles, Cal.
Arthur Collins has succeeded Harry |
F'oss at Hamakuapoko as surveyor for |
he Maui Agricultural Co.
Sam Baldwin has returned to the |
Coast after vacation spent with his |
parents. He is senior at Yale.
Hon. Levi Joseph and a number of |
1awaiians met the Longworth party |
While on their recent trip at the pail. |
ust outside of Kipahulu, decorated i
hem with leis, and escorted them to /
Manager All Pings for lunch.
At Wailua on the other side of XII
,ahulu on their way to Hama, Geo. o.
cooper met the party with carriage
,ayly adorned with bunting and pro- /
-ided them with iced drinks.
August has been the most rainy
month of the year, and kamaainas
tate the wettest August in twenty
even years.