The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-12-11
.LECkENBY's
OBSERVATIONS

AucklHnu, IN. a., OCb. lOf loUo.
Editor Advertiser: One week here
has enabled me to discover manifest
spirit of progress. With a firm tread
they are making haste slowly but sure
ly to life better worth living-not
only tolrrable, but enjoyable. The /
rather stern but intelligent faces you |
meet on the streets have challenge. I
the.world expression; they look the |
great questions of life in the face, |
lodging nothing, baking at no diff
cultes.
Some things we may learn from
them with profit. They seem to have
twisted the sacred right to the earth
into new and better form, and are
Enthusiastically to do the next best
thing. 1t looks as if they were going
to vote no.license tomorrow.
The question of equal suffrage they
have solved in way that should bring
the blush of shame to many of our
old fogies. Women vote and take a
real, live, wise and active part in
elections.
The people love their New Zealand,
and most of them are in love with life
and are making homes for themselves
that seem fit breeding-places for a
great people. They are building the
solid foundation for future greatness
by making it good for the man that
tolls; all paths are smoothed for the
feet of those who produce good things,
and rewards hang low for all who are
rot necessary. True, there are relics
1 ha xyh
reverence and want to retain the out
worn ideas of government by and for
the few, but Democracy has been born
again and includes the industries.
| 1t would do you good to see how
sanguine all are that it is good coun'
try and getting better. They talk not
of what is, but of bright visions Of the
near future, when this place where
they live will be thriving town, with
good roads, a postoffice, electric lights,
etc, and they set about to make their
dreams come true. / visited the gov
eminent grading and freezing estab-
lishment, where they receive farm prod
uce, grade pack and sell such things
as butter, cheese. meat, poultry, eggs,
etc. A farmer will bring in eggs. They
are examined by experts and all the
good eggs are stamped with date, etc.,
bad or poor ones are destroyed, cracked
ones are utilized, statement is made
in triplicate. One is mailed to grower,
one goes to market with the eggs and
one is filed in the office. charge of
two cents per dozen is made that covers
all expense of grading, packing, trans
portation and selling The grower gets
the best price. possible, less the two
cents per dozen. The same plar is
pursued with live chickens. They are
killed, dressed, frozen and marketed by
the government, and the best possible
price realized, because the government
makes study and has the means of
knowing when they are needed If you
could do the same with pines and ba-
nanas it would be a boon to the grow.
ers, a blessing to the consumers and
mighty good for all except the COM
mission man, who could himself be a
producer. They have solved the great
problem of owning the government and
making it benefit the many without
doing any real injustice to the few,
who, with us, get bloated and sacrifice
their digestion, or build libraries with
their name on, or go to Europe, or get
killed with monkeying with automo
biles. The people are well-nourished
. well dressed and well-behaved. The
young man are, many of them, sporty
bet. and drink a good deal, but you
, do not see much drunkenness. They
are going to retire the barmaids.
The children look like healthy bloom
ing roses-open eyed and unafraid.
Agricultural problems are in good
earnest hands and while the people
have many problems inseparable from
new country, they have also many
good things and are eagerly reaching
out to a better tomorrow. / was toll
today that n shipment had been receiv
ed of $4,000 boxes of Washington ap
pies and a plate of them on the tabl
makes me proud of what intelligen
fort has done on the farm in tina
distant land.
Ithink there is a good market her
for canned pines, as what they get ar
little nubbins from Fiji that are poorl.
grown and poorly packed.
1t is spring time here now, straw
berries are just coming in and the oil
familiar and some new ones with thei
memory provoking fragrance are il
their glory
Tender plants like heliotrope, gera
NUNS, ETC., tell of the mildness of thei
winter, for you see houses covered wit
blooms that stand no freezing.
You see fields and homes divide'
with pretty hedge fences-mostly haw
thorn now covered with white fragran
blossoms.
Much as I love the Hawaiian Island
and the charming people, may not b
able to write until / recover from a
obstinate fit of what they call writer
cramp.
Remember to get bats and swallow
and insect eating birds.
Sincerely,