The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-15
HAWAII MIGHT
SECURE TRADE
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49, sAfS1 'SAy S4O@t oPpoI Utilities W
study industrial and commercial condi.
lions in the great trade and industrial
| centers of Japan
The japanese government and the
japanese people were unremitting in
their attentions and their courtesies.
No nation could have entertained its
guests with greater distinction and
taste. 1t was stated that the enter
tainments given in behalf of the Off
GERS and men of the American fleet
were by far the most splendid and
brilliant ever seen in the Orient.
The Pacific Coast business men and
the American Commissioners found a
great deal to interest them, not only in
looking over actual conditions in Japan,
but>in studying their system of trade,
industrial and technical schools and in
investigating, as far as they could in
the time allotted them, the possibilities
of Japan as a manufacturing nation in
the near future.
At a banquet given by the Amer;.
can Commissioners General in honor
Of the Marquis Katsura and the Min
lister of Commerce and Agriculture,
the Prime Minister stated very i'm
pressively that henceforth it would be
the work of the japanese Government
to concentrate its energies on the de-
velopment of the industrial and COM
mercial potentialities of the country.
The Prime Minister further OBJ.
served that all of the natural re-
sources of the nation would be devel-
oped to their utmost, and for the flu
ture Japan would lay much more
stress upon the exploitation of
her manufacturing, commercial and
shipping activities than upon the fur
Their immediate development of her
army and navy.
These words were naturally inter
preted to mean that it is the purpose
Of the Japanese Government in the
first place to get the most out of agri-
culture, not only in Japan, but in For
mosa and in Korea, and, in the next
place, to convert Japan, as far as pos
sible, into a great workshop teeming
with activity. The regions about
Osaka and Nagoya seem specially
marked for exploitation along these
lines.
Asked about the market for Hawai-
ian products in the East, Mr.. Loomis
said that there was unquesti0nably an
excellent opening for the sale, in
large way, of the very superior pine
apples of the Hawaiian Islands He
considers the Hawaiian pineapple the
most delicious in the world and thinks
that if proper skill in the introduce
ton of it and due care as regards
packing and shipping are exercised,
that large sale could be found, in both
China and Japan, for pineapples and
other fruit products of the Hawaiian
Islands
"There is a great complaint" said
Mr.. LOOMS, Sin all the great Oriental
commercial centers, such as Shanghai,
Canton and Hongkong, in respect to
the careless and wholly unsatisfactory
manner in which American dried
fruits, preserved fruits, crackers and
such like articles are packed and
shipped. Prunes, raisins and cltron
from the Pacific Coast IN ninety ship
ments out of a hundred arrive there in
a mouldy, worny condition. This is
due to the fact that they are not prop
erly treated before they are shipped,
and thew are sent out in wooden
boxes. The same may be said of vari-
Gus kinds of cakes and crackers which
are sent to that market.
ssThere is a very large demand, and
the demand could be enormously in
creased. for such fruit products of
This nature. but to satisfy the demand,
the goods must be not only packed IN
small alright tins, but they must be
presented in tasteful and agreeable
manner.
seHawaiian producers who think of
entering the Oriental markets would
do well to bear these suggestions firm
" in mind, and to address them
selves particularly to the needs and
Of the Chinese market,
never falling to remember that IN
dealing with the Chinese. superior quail
itv: secure, scientific and tasteful
packing; packages of moderate size
and uniformity in quality are the ele-
Inents which will be insisted upon.
"The Chinese market is one worthy
IF the careful consideration of every
honest man who has anything to sell.