The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-14
JOINT TOURIST PLANS
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complete small excursions for the Wis
itor. say of one, two or three days.
For the man who has a month to spend
we have combination tours that show
him all we have to offer. We advertise
abroad, then when we get our man we
give him more than we promise him,
and he sends others, that is the way
we work -
When asked to make suggestions for
Hawaii, Mr. Hunter said that he was
abroad to study, not teach, but ven
tured the suggestion that Hawaii seem
ed to need someone to develop plan
for taking care of the tourist after his
arrival, and asked if anything had
been done in this line. Mr. Thurston
answered, " Absolutely nothing, so
far, = and urged the securing of some
one to aid the Promotion Committee in
organizing such work Mr.. Cooke
spoke in favor of securing trained
man of experience for this work, and
Mr.. Mott-Smith seconded this with
some apt illustrations of the need of
such an organizer of local excursions.
The plan of opening joint Offices in
New York was then discussed Mr..
Hunter was asked if their establish
ment would bring about another pas
senger line to Australia. The Austria
liam delegate thought the stimulation.
of passenger traffic on the Pacific
might do so, but relied more upon a
passage of the subsidy bill or a repeal
of the United States coastal laws so
far as Hawaii is concerned, either of
which seems likely to pass at the next
session of Congress.
Mr.. Thurston suggested as begin
ming that an arrangement be made
with one of the transcontinental rail-
ways for desk room in one of their
Broadway, New York, offices, from
which to disseminate literature and in
formation at minimum expenditure
Messrs. Ford and Hunter were then
asked by the chairman of the Trans
portation Committee to prepare plans
for the proposed joint work in Amer
lea and present them before meeting
of the transportation Committee to be
held at noon today.
Mr.. Hunter declared to some of the
members of the two committees that
he believed proper steamer communica-
ton should make Hawaii the holiday
ground of Australia, as Honolulu, at
least, is infinitely superior to Colombo,
and Oahu to Ceylon.
Colombo is hotter by tar, and the
mountains are hours away by rail, -
said Hunter. "Here it is deliciously
balmy Instead of expensive hotels
where the food is strange to the Euro
pean, you have modern hotel facilities.
L hope to secure plans of the Seaside
and the Royal Hawaiian to reproduce
such structures at Jenolyn caves and
elsewhere in New South Wales.
After dinner last night / slipped
into my. bathing suit in my room, then
out into a canoe. for torehlight fishing
on the reef. 1t was kings sport If
we had such a possibility in Australia,
my department would develop it for
the benefit of the visitor It would be
made one of our great assets. Today
went up Kalihi Valley and assembled
the trail Mr. Allan Herbert has built
for public use, a grass rest house every
few hundred yards. I have seen some
beautiful views in the Alps, and one I
recall from an elevation at the mouth
of our own Hawkesbury river, but that
view from the top of the mountain at
the end of Mr.. Herbert s traiR is the
most beautiful / have ever looked upon.
The panorama is unsurpassed in any
country l have ever visited Noun
tains, valleys. ocean, plantations, city,
forests, plains, inland salt lakes, all
you have but TO turn and the view
changes to something totally different
at every movement. What an asset,
and how I envy you its possession"
Mr.. Hunter visited the Bishop Mu-
scum and the Kaiulani School vester-
day morning and became deeply inter
ested IN the election of the school
mayor, county officers and sheriff,
among the scholars. He had chat
with the candidate for sheriff. learned
of the punishments meted out to of
Tending pupils by their own elected Of
feers and declared he would have the
system introduced into Australia.
Mr.. Hunter regrets that he can not
stay in Hawaii for month instead of
for FIVE DAYS. He says, however. that
if he ever does return and remains for
a month. he viii never leave. the Is
lands. The surfboard and the outrig-
ger canoe have already claimed him.