The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-29
PREMIERS AND
TOURIST UNION
Some. AustraIasian Replies as
TO Joint Work in
Promotion.

| A number Of replies reached Homo
lulu on wednesday by the Manuka
from the Australasian premiers, ad-
dressed 10 Governor Frear, promising
consideration on the part of the sew
eraI government tourist bureaus re-
garding joint promotion work in the
larger cities of the United States.
From the government tourist bureaus
| several response were received by the
secretary of the Territorial Transpor-
tation Committee, promising consider
alton and further information as 10
progress. One of the most important
communications received on matters
purely of a transportation nature was
the following from Burns, Philip & Co.
of Sydney, the originators Of the South
Pacific two dollars and a half a day
cruises:
Sydney, May 6. 1908
A. H Ford. Esq, Territorial Trans
port Committee, Honolulu.
Dear Sir: We are in receipt of your
favor of 31st March, enclosing news
paper cuttings, which we have read
with much interest, and we are
pleased to note that your opinion is
tFdI dl flcuETdAG rates VI pdSScASC
money a large tourist traffic could be
established from Hawaii to New Zea-
land, Australia and Pacific Islands.
At present there is a line Of steamers
running at intervals of two months
from Sydney 10 Wellington, Auckland,
Fiji Honolulu and Vancouver, under
contract with the governments of Can
ada and New Zealand. The steamers
at present employed, though of large
tonnage, are not fitted for many pas
sengers. but the owners would, we feel
sure. provide accommodation for
reasonable number ofs passengers if
there was a probability that il would
be utilized regularly. This is a mat
ter which we would be obliged to sub
nit TO the steamship owners in Eng
land, but If you will go closely into
the matter, we shall be pleased to
submit your views to them.
Being under contract, it would not
be possible for these steamers to de-
viate from the route named above, and
passengers wishing to visit the New
Hebrides must come to Sydney by the
Vancouver steamer via New Zealand,
or tranship at Fiji to the direct
steamer for Sydney.
Yours faithfully, for Burns, Philip e
Co, Ltd, ]. w. McMASTER.
The steamers of this line carry. some
of them. 5000 tons; they stop two or
three days at least at each port, and
are ideal cruising vessels for those who
can not afford the twelve-dollar-a-day
boats. Hawaii should be made the
starting point of these cruises, and
with a little effort doubtless can be
made the meeting place.
The secretary of the Transportation
Committee wrote reminding the Burns,
Philip people of interviews he had held
with them on this subject in Sydney,
when the possibility of securing tour
lists of moderate means from Canada
and Hawaii was discussed. With the
lowering of the San Francisco rate,
which is promised on one of the lines.
TO what amounts to fifty dollars one
way, those Americans wishing to join
a moderate-priced cruise of the South
Seas and Australasia might do SO by
making connections at Honolulu,
either via San Francisco, Vancouver,
or even Mexico, when the new line of
steamers are put in operation next fall
with through rate from the Southern
States to Hawaii of but seventy-five
dollars. Europe is so near the greater
part of America that an adjustment of
Pacific passenger rates to those in
force on the Atlantic and other parts
of the world seems an absolute ne
cessity before any great amount of
tourist traffic is turned this way.
The replies so far received to the
letters sent out by the Territorial
Transportation Committee seem to in
dictate that both Australasia and the
transportation companies doing bust
ness on the Pacific will aid the Gov
ernor and his associates in their eff
forts to secure lower steamship fares, |
more tourists and a plan of coopera-
ton Beneficial to all parties concerned. |