The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-20
COLON|ALS
AND HAWAII
Good Promotion Work by a
Honolulu Visitor to
Australia.

of Hawaii" the Sydney (Australia)
Herald of December q gives much
space to a description of our favorite
watering place, as told of by the vice
president of the, Outrigger Club, H. L.
Herbert. Mr.. Herbert has only recently
returned from a trip to the Colonies,
and he maintains that Waikiki Beach
is one of the most valuable promotion
assets Hawaii has.
1.-The people in Australia have no
definite idea of what the Hawaiian Is.
lands are,' said Herbert the other
night. '"They would stop and think
for a minute when I mentioned the
Hawaiian Islands, but would nod under
standingly when I said, in explanation,
Sandwich Islands,
"Sydney people are wild over
the body surfing that is done there.
The swimmers have to be careful in
their choice of swimming Places as
an-eating sharks frequent many of
the beaches. 7 think it would be a
yod idea to send some Hawaiian surf
"a down that way, just to illustrate
o"v much better or boys are in the
@@ter than the experts Of Australia.
would promote the interests of the
ands, from tourist standpoint, in
svonderfui manner.
W Herbert will try to awaken enthu-
SIN at the Outrigger Club again
NsSfee FOrd's departure, interest has
i8asd down to some extent, but it is
easoped that, with Kenneth Atkinson as
Captain of the Club, interest can be re
vived and more water carnivals held
ip the near future.
2 The Sydney Herald article said as
follows about Hawaii Club and what
y being done here:
y The vice president Of the Hawaiian
putrigger Canoe Club, Mr.. I'll. L. Her
Bert, is at present on visit to Sydney
from his home at Honolulu, and from
what he states of the surf bathing, a;
INDUCED in by both whites and native:
in the Hawaiian group, breaker shoot
ing at Manly, Bondi, Freshwater, ant
other seaside resorts around Sydney /:
tame and lifeless.
A few miles from Honolulu, and ac
! cessible by electric car, stands Waikiki
the Manly of Hawaii. Here the huge
rollers of the Pacific tumble towards
| the shore from the coral belt half /;
mile out at sea, and here the Hawai-
ians foregather with their surfboard
and frail-looking outrigger canoes. Thu
surfboard consists of a piece of red
wood, feet long, and 21a feet across
and ~ inches thick. This is planet
down, and made perfectly smooth, AMI
the Hawaiian pushes it out in front o.
him as he strikes ont towards the cora
| reef. When between quarter ant
, half a mile out to sea, he selects ;
satisfactory roller to bear him in IL
one flying sweep up on to the beach
| The Hawaiian, although he does no
claim a monopoly of surfriding is prout
of the fact that his eountrymen are
the only surfrlders who stand erect OF
their board as it flies shoreward on thu
crest of a breaker.
The outrigger canoe offers chance
of surfriding to those who are INSULT
GENTLY adept with the surfboard. Thu
canoe, which has the appearance OF
museum curio more than seaworth,
vessel, is built in different sizes. :
stoutly-built Hawaiian is often seen II
charge of one of these canoes, padding
a party of Europeans out towards tn
reef. When he has reached the poin
desired he swings his little vessel roun'
until the bow points shoreward. A
the breaker approaches the stern o
the canoe, he starts padding frantleal
ly, and gets considerable way on befor
his craft is caught up and tossed head
long. towards the shore. During tn
cs1s6e s flight towards the sandy beac
hAnses his paddle from the stern
A6Sessel, like a rudder, and guide
Ganoe up on to the beach
&c Outrigger Canoe Club has re
60 been holding some unique cal
nNafs and sports at Waikiki, wher
stRfriding and canoe races were vIgol
oifsly contested. Perhaps the mos5 in
posing sight of the carnival was tn
illuminated surfriding. At night
crowd of suffers swan out for cor
siderable distance with their surf
boards, and waited in one long lin
for breaker At a given signal the
mounted their surfboards, simultaneou:
" pressing the button of a small, ele'
.tric battery attached to the board. Fac
man was robed in white from head
foot, and lights from the fronts Q
numerous surfboards Illuminated tn
breaker, and the strange figures ridin
on its crest Then a number of on
rigger canoes padded out, and, on gain
ing the top of a roller switched o
numerous vari-colored electric light
which scintillated in the water roun
their prows as the little vessels cam
flying up to the crowded beach.
| Waikiki boasts two large hotels, an