The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-23
LOWER RATES
MAY RESULT
Steamship Manager Talks Over
Tourist Rates and Laws
of Shipping.

Lower rates to the Coast and to Aus
tralasia were the subjects discussed at
lunch at the University Club yester
day at which were present R. Mac
Lehman, manager of the Canada Aus
tralia line; E. Hodson, colonial secre-
tary to FIJI; Governor Walter Frear,
L. A. Thurston, Judge Sydney Ballou
and Alexander Hume Ford.
Manager MacLennan spoke of the
new fast steamers building for the
transpacife service, and gave hope of
lower local rate between Hawaii and
the Coast. The rate to San Francisco
via Seattle would remain the same, but
in the off season at least there is likely
to be substantial cut between Homo
lulu and Vancouver. The five dollar
day cruise rate to Australasia also
came up for discussion, and it is prac-
tically assured that before long such a
cruise from Frisco to Tahiti, Cook Is
lands, New Zealand, Australia. Tonga,
Samoa, FIJI, Hawaii and Vancouver or
vice versa, will be offered to the public.
Cruisers purchasing tickets at five dol
lars day good for not less than sixty
DAYS on the Union S. S. boats may even
be permitted to use up their tickets on
the local run to Vancouver if the plans
discussed pan out as expected; this
would reduce the fare to or from the
Coast to about forty dollars each way.
The Union S. S. Co. also intends erect
ing a system of hotels in the South
Seas, at Suya, FIJI, Ap1a, Samoa, Tonga,
Tahu, Friendly islands, on the Cook
Islands and in Tahiti. Alexander
Young guarantees an inclusive board
rate at his hotels of five dollars day,
and the best rooms may be secured at
this rate with board at the Union sys-
tenn of houses, so that the cruiser may
know that his expenses may never ex,
cede five dollars day ashore or af1oat
for living expenses
Manager MaeLennan visited with
Thurston, Ford and Ba1lou all the hotels
of Honolulu, his fancy being taken par
ticularly by the Royal Hawaiian and
the Seaside Hotel, the latter he con-
sidered the ideal plan for a tropical
seaside caravansary. Discussing rates
by water Manager MacLennan said that
his company was glad to get two cents
a mile, and that their highest rate
against which the New Zealanders pro-
tested, was a local rate of five dollars |
for a two hundred miles ride. He seem |
ed certain that if the coastal laws of |
the United States were abrogated that |
the Union Company would Immediately |
put on a line of palatial steamers to |
San Francisco via Honolulu. The new /
steamers it is promised will endeavor
to arrive at Honolulu early in the morn
ing and leave at five p. m.
The visiting party was taken by auto
mobile placed at its disposal by ]. f.
Morgan to the Pail, Waikiki, where
the surfboarders were observed, to the
Aquarium and other points of interest.
The new colonial secretary to FIJI
declared that Honolulu and environs are
more beautiful than any part of jana
ca, and Mr.. MacLennan went away
pleased that he can now personally ad-
wise people to visit the Paradise of
he Pacific The result of the visit of
,ur distinguished guests those who par
in their entertainment believe
will be a closer bond of interest and
over rates of passage between Pacific
,crts.