The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-11
FIVE DOLLAR
PER DAY CRUISES
A South Sea Enterprise Which
These Islands Might
Well Copy.

The Territorial Transportation Com
mittee is working for the five dollar
a day cruise on the oeean-around the
Notwithstanding that the FIVE dollar
day cruise has come to stay and that on
the Pacific it viii make Hawaii another
Madeira, as il has made the lands about
the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the
North Sea and the Caribbean the pleas
ure grounds of the world s tourists.
New Zealand has already introduced
the pound day cruise on the Pacific,
with unbounded success, and offers TO
take Hawaii INTO her circuit served by
the most magnificent and splendid
steamers many of them turbine boats)
that float on western waters.
1t IS possible even now, starting from
Honolulu, to go a cruising on magnif-
cent ocean greyhounds, at five dollar
a day rate, visiting en- route, FIJI, Sa-
moa, Tonga, New Zealand, Tasmania,
Australia, back 10 New Zealand Tin
GLIDING in January the wonderful an
Audl tiAlSS " tAt west todst SoUnueJg
to the Cook Islands, Tahiti, San Fran
cisco, Seattle and Vancouver, and back
to Honolulu-and one man, New Yea
lander, has brought this about by his
indomitable viii and remorseless ener-
gy. King Edward has knighted james
Mills, managing director of the Union
S. s. Co.. of New Zealand, for this and
for building up the fourth largest
steamship company flying the British
flag 1t is likely that Hawaii and
America at large viii yet have occasion
to honor Sir James Mills, who, accord
ing TO his fellow directors, has plans
up his sleeve, which if carried out viii
make Hawaii more than ever the
crossroads of the Pacific
A round the world all water cruise
via New Zealand and South Africa, or
Suez, and returning via Tehuantepee, is
one of the possible routes being looked
into by the Territorial Transportation
Committee. The Union s. s. CO.. of
New Zealand already bridges large |
part of this, controlling as it does, the !
Vancouver Honolulu-Sydney line, and |
as a representative of the transporta-
tion committee was recently informed |
IN Dunedin, the possibility of a New
Zealand India England branch OF the
L. :. Co. is not remote one while \
TO his knowledge triangular route has
already been mooted taking in New
Zealand. Hawaii. Vancouver, Japan,
Java. Australia, and round again by
way of New Zealand. In fact this lat
ter cruise route was the suggestion of
and has the hearty endorsement of some
of the Australian tourist departments,
which are working for its accomplish l
ment
Should the Union s. s Co. send its
Pacific liners on to Europe, they would 4
meet in the Mediterranean the FIVE dol
lar a day cruisers from New York,
while in the North Sea they would con
meet with both British and Dutch cruis-
ing steamers TO New York and to the
Caribbean. for both New York and
European pleasure five dollar a day
cruising Yachts touch at Panama and
Tehuantepec, while new Texan-Te- !
huantepec passenger line is being nego-
tiated with to extend its service to Ha-
wall.
The new cruising idea when developed /
viii revolutionize tourist traffic on the
Pacific and around the world. Sir
James Mills is just the man, if he so /
wills. TO make possible the globe en-
eireiing cruise at the standard daily
rates.
who is Sir James MiIls2 He is the
mental rudder of a fleet of some sixty
magnificent steam vessels aggregating
nearly three hundred thousand net ton
mage This. be it remembered dwarfs
the boosted tonnage of the japanese
merchant marine. although Japan has a
population OF fifty millions to New Zea-
land : less than one million. Japan,
too. began building OF acquiring steam
vessels before the New Zealand com
pany came into existence. The Union
Steamship Company Of New Zealand
has become the greatest in Australasia,
and its operations affect the destiny of
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