The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-11
OFFERS GOOD
CHANCE To
HAWAII
California Fruit Men
Would Help Our
Growers.

Through suggestion made by Lloyd
Childs, the Hawaiian Seattle Fair
commissioner, an offer has been made
by the Southern Californian Fruit
Growers Exchange to admit the pine
apple growers of Hawaii into member
ship with them and place their great
marketing organization at the disposal
of the Island fruit growers. The mat
ter has not been formally presented to
the pineapple men here as yet, but will
be presented at once for their consld-
Grafton. IF the proposal be taken up,
as it very probably viii be, it will
place the Hawaiian growers in a posi-
tion to have their products handled
throughout the Union by the regular
statesmen of the Californian exchange
at bare cost and give them all the ad-
vantages to start with for the market
ing of their pines that the Californian
orange growers have been years in Sc
curing. The taking up of the proposal
might also mean the establishing of
the Honolulu-San Diego direct line of
which so much has been said and
Oh DOtu SluOo O4 GnC
Vice President Grifiths of the ex-
change was through passenger on the
Tenyo Maru on her last visit here, hav-
ing been one of the American CONNER
cial commissioners who recently visit
ed the Orient. While in Honolulu, Mr..
Grifiths was asked by Mr.. Childs why
it was not feasible for the Fruit Grow
ers' Exchange statesmen to handle the
Hawaiian pineapple crop in their off
season for oranges. This started Mr..
Griffiths to considering the matter,
with the result that he brought the
question to the notice of f. Q. Storey,
the exchange president.
Mr.. Storey consulted President Wig
gins of the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce. who at once became an ad-
vocate of the plan and presented rea-
sons why the union of fruit growers
here with those of Southern California
would be mutually advantageous.
Through the Hawaiian pine crop be-
ng handled by the exchange statesmen, !
he fruit. both fresh and canned, could
De marketed more cheaply than the
Hawaiian growers could market it
With their own men, the California
growers having already established
heir fruit depots in every city OF con-
sequence in the Union west of Chicago
md having expert salaried statesmen IN
,harge They have also railroad freight
advantages that the Hawaiian growers
Gould not get without great effort, and
lave regular purchasers on their lists.
The Southern California Fruit Grow
rs Exchange is one of the solid co
operative institutions of the United
States, the organization that has made
possible the great success of the Cali
ornia orange growing industry. 1t IS
model organization that was frequent ,
Y held up by Commissioner Newell for |
he Hawaiian growers to pattern from.
t works for its members for cost, the
cling charges being only sufficient to
eep the affairs of the exchange run
ing.
The interest taken by Mr.. Virgins
a the suggested combination is because
he Headquarters of the Exchange are
\ Los Angeles and it is his idea that
trough the shipment of Hawaii s en-
ire pine and banana crop to San Pedro
or distribution the question of return
reight cargoes for San Pedro-Honofulu
5eamers would be settled. So enthu-
Iastic is Mr. Virgins in the matter
nd so thoroughly has he convinced Mr..
torey of the possibilities in it, that
[r. Storey has written that if the Ha-
allan pineapple men want to form
cal exchange as a branch of the South I
m California Exchange, he will come ]
Hawaii and assist them in organiz- :
lg.
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