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

/ NhbiC OAAACCo anu pay 4OOAAS On LIZ o6lsk
way. Ny idea would be a spacious
ground floor where representatives from
all the islands and colonies interested
would preside over departments wei
stocked with descriptive literature, anC
at one end of the space ticket counter
where excursion tickets may be bought
to every part of the Pacific. / have
taken this matter up with most of the
South Pacific steamship companies ant
believe there will be little difficulty il
getting them to place every kind OF
transportation ticket on sale allowing
the usual commission which should &C
long way toward paying general office
expenses.
THE So A DAY CRUISE.
In this combination of information
bureaus, one should be able to purchase
round cruise ticket to Australia, New
Zealand and all of the isles of the Pa
elf he cares to visit--via Hawaii of
course-including the cruise of the .Ha-
waiian Islands. In fact / consider this
might be made the most wonderful and
enticing of all cruises. l hope the In
ter-1sland company win suggest some
thing. The FIJI Islands cruise costs
two dollars and half day, the Sgd
ney, Fiji, Samoan, Tongan, New Zea-
land cruise on palatial twin-screw
steamers, five dollars day A five dol
lar a day cruise from Frisco to all the
Hawaiian Islands and back is another
concession that | believe would pay the
company running it and develop Ha-
wall more than could any other venture.
1t has made the Mediterranean known
to tens of thousands of Americans, has
brought the Fiords of Norway and the
land of the Midnight Sun within the
means of the multitude and has made
the Caribbean Sea playground of New
Workers. The five dollar a day cruise
has come to stay, and Hawaii should
not be the last corner of the earth to
bow to the inevitable With all the
South Pacific pulling tourists via Homo
lulu, it will be the fault of Hawaii if
we can t tempt them to stop off for a
month or more to- at reasonable rates,
see the wonders we have to show them.
THE WONDERS OF THE SOUTHERN
WORLD.
"Did I see anything south of the line
to compare with Hawaiian scenery2
Yes, and no. I made the cruise of the
New Zealand west coast sounds-five
dollars day if you please-and lived
like a fighting cock. The Union S. s.
Co. of New Zealand has done wonders
TO develop the South Seas. This annual
cruise to the sounds is an event With
one exception the sounds are not so
as smiling Laupahoehoe and
the ride thence by sea or land to Hilo.
But that one Xception-Milford Sound!
1t is sublime. / would like to explore
central Hawaii and see what we can
find to equal it. On Maui, we have
and beyond Milford Sound
the New Zealanders have McKinnon S
pass. / will not attempt to describe it,
but merely state that it is almost as
beautiful as is Haleakala when the
clouds are passing into that crater at
sunrise. | have seen nothing in New
Zealand so delectable as the lao valley.
have seen no river in the world so
beautiful as the Wanganui. / never
expect to, but | do believe that there
are places in Hawaii as charming in
their way, even more so, than any
other spot the world over. The New
Zealanders cut foot trails to their won
Ter spots and tourists follow them. I |
nave walked twenty-five miles a day |
among the Maori mountains without |
firing.
ISLAND TO ISLAND CRUISE.
81 want to see Hawaii developed and |
opened up to the tourist as New Zea-
and has been. don It believe the peo-
de of Hawaii begin to realize the
eenic wonders they can offer to the
world. Ours is the only important Pa
life island group today that is not
ubject to regular island to island
ruise without change of steamer. That
lay is coming for Hawaii. it must come,
nd | for one, for the mere pleasure
f giving others the pleasures [ have
njoyed will gladly join hands with
nyone to accomplish in any way this
ne great need of the Paradise of the
'acifc.
WHY FORD RETURNED.
"How did happen to return to Ha-
7aii at this timef Well l had made up
ny mind TO run around the world via
outh Africa, but one day at Milford
ound lady cruiser who had visited
laval saw Hawaiian coat of arms
in in my tie. She hummed Aloha De,
nd that settled it; / forgot South At
lea. Milford and everything else. /
OF homesick for Hawaii, wired to Sgd
ey for berth on the first boat to
honolulu and here I am, in the market
or a new surf board and ready to shout
laval Ponoi forever with anyone who
FISHES to exercise his lungs with me
/ that direction.
IN AUSTRALIA. /.
How did Australia take TO the idea7
[ visited New Zea-
md twice. After my first talk with l
[r. Donne he wrote to the Promotion
ommittee, on my next visit we de-
eloped the idea and rolled it over, then
returned to Australia to see how it
ad sunk in there. Had it sunk in? [ I
lould say so. Mr.. Percy Hunter is the
anaging director of the Government
ourist Bureau in Sydney. l unfolded
le plan ] had in view over the lunch
ible. and in moment he was all agl0w
18th enthusiasm. If Hawaii would take
he lead New South Wales would Ger !
ainly follow, and America would be
from end TO end for tourists
, the islands and continents of the
acifc. Mr. Venour Nathan. Hon. Sec
,tarv of the Australian immigration
eague. Joined US from an adjacent
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