The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-07
Al FXANDER HUME FORD
STILL BUSY FOR HAWAII
South Sea Connections for This Port-Copra
Possibilities for These Isands---Cheap
Inter Island Tourist Excursions.

ready arranged for; a run over to the
still cannfbal New Hebrides, where the
| two dollar and half per day cruise
is in vogue; a trip to Australia and
and Vancouver; and all for ten shil-
lings day. 1t would tempt tourists
of moderate means and they would
| falkland oh! that blessed talk of the
| contented tourist. In the early days Of
inter-urban trolley promotion the rail-
/ ways protested that the cent mile
fares of the electric railways would
/ drive them out of business. Instead, it
built up an entirely new travelling pub
| lie that, once enticed to travel began
to desert the trolley for the longer
can convince Burns Philip that America
| and Hawaii will patronize their cheap
| excursion service if extended to them,
| they will act accordingly and a tide
of tourist traffic be turned toward the
| Pacific that will benefit every line of
steamers upon the ocean. In fact,
am now on my way to New Zealand to
| ask the officers of the Union S. s.
/ Co. if it is not possible to extend
| their five dollar day excursion rate
| to the South Sea Islands SO that Ha-
waiians and Americans may secure
| this rate, via splendid first-elass
steamers, from America to Australia,
New Zealand, the South Sea Islands,
| and back again; and I believe they
win do SO, for I have found them
a remarkably liberal and progressive
people.
Everywhere that / have talked of
South Pacific headquarters Gneluding
HawaiD in New York, both govern
ment tourist bureaus and transporta-
ton lines have eagerly taken up the
back to Honolulu before long and chat
with the people there on the possibili-
ties of cooperative efforts for inducing
| tourists to come Pacif1cward-before I
/ 10 new i OIh city anu SOW tic
good seed there. Already Mr.. Dome
of the New Zealand Tourist Depart
ment has gotten in touch with our
own Promotion Committee, and I am
the bearer of many other messages
from Australia and the South Seas,
which 1 hope to deliver in person.
| Copra, I believe, will do more to
bring Hawaii in touch with the South
Sea Islands than will anything else,
although l believe a biscuit factory
and canned-meat works in Hawaii
might do much ip the South Seas, once
regular communication is established;
but copra is the crop of the South
Seas, so, therefore, l am for eopra.
While 1 was at Apia, the Lever Bros
boat put in for load of seed cocoa
nuts for the Solomon Island planta-
tions, the Samoan trees being very
prolific. However, at Pakia, in the
Banks group (north of the New Heb |
rides, I noticed young trees not twenty |
feet in height loaded down with nut |
clusters that almost touched the |
ground. Oahu growers please notice
trees five years old. 1 believe Hawaii /
will grow better nuts than those of the
New Hebrides, which are usually |
small. Both New Caledonia and the
New Hebrides grow an excellent COT
fee-but Australians do not drink cof-
fee: they prefer chicory. / believe,
however, that when the various tourist
bureaus act as each others agents, it
would be a good plan to place a young
woman in the magnificent Sydney gov
eminent bureau rooms to demonstrate
and serve free Kona coffee, for once
the Australians become acquainted
with the best in the world" 1 believe
they viii dispense with chicory and
demand the real stuff The sydney
bureau, by the way. asks if the Ha-
wall Promotion Committee will send it's
pamphlets for distribution and permit
New South Wales to send hers to the
Promotion Committee rooms, Honolu-
H. L llG new Z4SdldIlt tOQIiSL bureau
offices, both in New Zealand and Aus
tralia. need more Hawaiian literature.
Hawaii is the meeting-place of the
transpacifc steamers, and all of those
to whom I have spoken recognize her
as the clearing house through which
everything must pass, so trust Ha-
wall will take the initiative in get
ting ALI interests to work together.
The Australians have not yet solved
the labor problem in the cane fields.
Even the Italians they import, for
stripping the cane. desert. I was in
hopes that they had found white men
who could stick at it. l wanted to
induce them to come to Hawaii, where
it is not so hot as in Queensland, |
and where conditions are better On
the boat / took to the New Hebrides !
were a number of Kanakas being re, ,