The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-04

southern racine lands might be place
before them. He argued that som
would stick in Hawaii. others wouI
perhaps go on to New Zealand and Ans
traIa TO investigate and that tines
would aid in bringing about NOR
brotherly feeling between America an
australasia, besides creating more traf
nc IN both freight and passengers. /
seemed most reasonable. and as Ri
cables IN Sydney had lust announce,
that 70 more Japs would be permittet
| to leave Japan for Hawaii. it might b.
well TO ask the Hawaiian Immigration
committee to come into the fold.
THE DEP0RTED KANAKAs
There are 5000 trained kanakas
| good, industrious sugar cane workers
| deported from Australia; thew might
come IN handy as a stop-gap in Hawaii
| and perhaps a few Australian white
men might be tempted to Hawaii il
exchange for those who leave Ameriea
Tor Australia. At any rate we decided
the matter was worthy of future con
| sIderation. Mr.. Hunter is Just leaving
Tor London where Australasia is about
10 establish immigration and tourist
headquarters on a large scale. He will
then come to New York where I hope to
meet him and report progress. He will
then tour the United States, visit Ha-
wan and return to Australia via japan.
Delng keen advocate of an American
round the Pacific cruise, from Frisco
or Vancouver to Hawaii, Japan. Java,
Australia, New Zealand, Samoa or Fiji,
and back to America via Honolulu. 1t
IS needless to state that / was a hearty
supporter of this and have already
made an attempt to induce one steam
ship company to run boats over this
course, with some possibility of success.
In fact my self appointed mission as
promoter of Hawaii as center of the
universe seems to have struck the South
Sea people as verv commcndable
scheme, and if Hawaii can now see
her way clear to move officially, there
will be some of the heartiest hands
across the sea handshaking that the
broad Pacific has ever known.
THINGS THEY DO BETTER AWAY.
ITO partieularize on a few of the
things they do better abroad than at
home. The New Zealand Tourist De-
partment has much to teach us, and
for the life of me I don't see why we
can't make ours a government affair
Every great mountain in New Zea-
land has it's trail, along which, every
ten miles, is a so-called accommoda-
ton hut, in reality a solidly-built Sc
ries of log houses-one for the keep
ers, in which is located the dining
room; another for men, and one for
women. Spacious double hunks are
built around the walls and plenty of
bedclothing is provided. The charge
is two shillings, or fifty cents. for each
nights lodging and for each meal.
Some of the young campers carry their
own provisions. would like to see
these accommodation huts on the
slopes of Mauna Loa and in the crater
of Haleakala. and even in the noun
tains of Oahu, so that during the hoI-
idays our young men might spend
their vacations to advantage, to say
nothing of the temptation it would be
to tourists to linger on'in the Paradise
of the Pacific. 1t seems to me that
with Australia and New Zealand
ready to spend money in America to
tempt the tourist across the Pacific,
now is the time for Hawaii to make
a new start. If the Philip Burns peo-
pie can be made to see that it is to
their advantage to run the ten-shil-
ling a day cruises from Vancouver via
liza, perhaps they will consent to have
these boats stop two or three days at
day at Lahaina and an
other at Hilo, or, better stfll, if our
own inter-island boats would. After a
tempting cruise many may stop over
'or a month with us. IF cruising from
sydney to Fiji and Samoa can be
conducted at a pound a
lay, I see no reason why a Frisco or
seattle-Los, Angeles cruise, via the
Hawaiian islands. spending two weeks
here, may not be made profitable to
some steamship company and the is
ands. It is one of the first things a |
combined tourist force in New York !
should work for. At present, adequate |
facilities for getting about the Ha- !
vaiian Islands do not exist, but 1 |
rust, once the allied tourist bureaus
ret together for real work. that this |
IAN be rectified. 1t is simple enough. |
With some of the worlds greatest |
beauty spots within two hundred |
understand why everyone-transpor
ion companies and all-shohld not |
york together to make these easy of
.ccess at fares that will tempt every
ne. With Fiji, the Nav Hebrides,
nd the Solomon Islands offering
ruises to tourists at two dollar and
half a day rate, it seems humili-
ting that we of Hawaii can not fall
n line-say at the five dollar a day
ate, anyway-and herald to the world
hat we are at least as progressive as
re the islands of the Caribbean Sea.
BAD NAME ABROAD.
unfortunately we have a bad name
broad for excessive transportation
ates. and this is detrimental. Many
ourists means some settlers; in AUS
ralia half rates are made on the rail-
,ays to across the sea passengers.
lake it possible for the tourist to see
Il the Hawaiian Islands at a mini
ium cost and he will be more apt
, stop over, and seeing how reason
bly, the thing may be done he will
dvise others to follow suit Surely,
18th all the tourist bureaus Of the
acific working in the large cities of
merica to draw people through Ha-
ali. we should offer our guests ex-
a