The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
FINDS IDEAL
CLIMATE HERE
San Diegan Capitalist Back
After Touring South
Sea Islands.

After spending the past several
months IN touring among the islands
Of the South Seas and in New Zealand,
Ranford Worthing of San Diego is
back in Honolulu with the knowledge
that for climate and opportunities Ha-
wall beats them all. Mr.. Worthing
will spend the next six months here at
least, and may eventually decide to
make Honolulu his home.
LATTER visiting here twice. he
says, ~ find that we San Diegans
have been lying to ourselves about our
climate for the last twenty years. +"
Mr.. Worthing passed through Homo
lulu on his way south last year, hav-
ing gone to look into the possibilities
of establishing colony of couple of
hundred families of farmers some
where in the south. In this scheme he
was associated with DIR. E. C. Rhodes,
now of Maui, who came here some
time ago, made a turn at Wahiawa,
saw more opportunities and wrote to
his partner to come back to Hawaii.
"He told me that he thought the
chances for making money here were
better. than anywhere else just now,"
explains Mr.. Worthing.
During his journey through the
south, however, Mr.. Worthing found
much that pleased him. He found a
wife in New Zealand and his Honolulu
visit this time is a honeymoon one.
Naturally he has decided that his trip
has been lucky one for him, even if
he founded no South Sea colony nor
invested in the copra isles.
In political way, however, New
Zealand failed to come up to his expec-
tations. 81 had heard it called the
land without a strike,' he said, "but
[ found some good ones going on while
/ was there. 1t is true that the strike
leaders were promptly arrested and
fined by the government. but they paid
their fine and said it had been worth
the price.
''The ideal New Zealand system of
government died with the death of
Premier Seldom. Now there seems to
| be tendency to recede and the coun-
| try is drifting back into the hands of
| capitalists dSdiHs C11 ooSCph W dAh,
who succeeded Seldom as Premier,
took up the burden of carrying out
! Seldom s plans, but at heart he is not
in sympathy with them and the land
grabbing opposition is making great
Roadway against the government. Be
fore long the opposition will be in
power and then the country will go
back to where it was twenty-five years
| ago. Then it will be Goodbye, New
Zealand.
"There seem to be some great op-
portunities in the Fijis. There all the
| land is held by the government IN trust
for the natives, and the governing PEG
pie are anxious to have white settlers
come in. You can get long leases on
as much land as you want, from one
hundred to sixty thousand acres, fo1
| ninety-nine years, at an initial renta
of sixpence per acre, gradually lncreas
ing to shilling an acre, with easy
Improvement conditions.
con Samoa nearly all the lands arr
taken up. | spent some time there
and had magnificent chance to SEE
the volcano of Savaii in eruption. /
was the most spectacular sight [ eve
Saw in my life and [ am afraid tina
old Mauna Loa will have to take {
back seat to Savaii There is the sam'
old feeling of unrest in Samoa, how
ever, and the same old rivalry between
he two native kings. The NATIVES
there are expecting and looking fol
ward TO an uprising at any time.
81 am not certain about my sta.
here. / will stay for some months, a
any rate 1t seems to me, looking o
as possible investor, that there is to
much local money here for an outside
10 have much chance at the goo
ihings If there were not so niue
money loose it would bring in outsid
! capital and fresh blood and [ thin
that that is what these Islands want.