The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-27
MASON MITCHELL,
American Consul.


81 beg to call the attention of the
Verkehrsverein society to the efforts
of the Hawaii Promotion Committee
and some data relative to mode of
procedure and results accomplished by
that body.
THE Samoan Islands rank second
to none in the world in beauty and
general interest of picturesque native
life. To be sure they are handicap
ped at the present time by the want
of direct and regular line of steam
ers to America, the country that fur
nishes the majority of moneyd tou-
rists, but with the present Congress
of America there is reason to hope it |
will pass the Shipping Subsidy Bill
whereby the Oceanic line of steamers, ,
running from San Francisco to Aus
ITALIA via Samoa, viii be restored
There are hundreds of plans for
attracting the attention of desirable
people as settlers or as scjourners,
but no intelligence department of any
experience tries to employ them all
at once. Hawaii's committee is work.
ing consistently and within the amount
of funds available, on a number of
general systems. These include: (a)
distribution of folders and printed
matter; CD correspondence with ST.
milar bodies and with travel agen-
cies; Co information bureaus in Ho-
nolulu and Los Angeles; Cd news
service designed to furnish matter on
Hawaii to mainland publications
This is a mere framework on which
is hung a great amount of detail.
In the way of printed matter. the
committee is covering a very large
field in a careful and judicious man
ner at a minimum Of cost. During the
past year, 100000 separate pieces of
descriptive matter were sent out to all
parts of the world, or an average of
upwards of 700 pieces daily. At the
present time the publications are ham
/ died by practically every excursion
bureau, railway and steamship agency
throughout the United States and Ca
NADIA, as well as by many hotels. In
this connection the Pacific Coast and
the Pacific Northwest have received
especial attention.
Throughout the Orient, in Java,
Australia, New Zealand and Ceylon,
the most pleasant relations exist with
all official tourist and intelligence de-
partments. This is especially true in
Japan where the Japanese Welcome
Society has for a number of years
been working in most cordial and eff
fectual cooperation with Hawaii's bu-
reau. The same is true of Austria
lasia. For both Australia and New
Zealand, Hawaii rendered important
service in distributing among the men
of the Atlantic feet large quantities
of matter just before they sailed, and,
in return, is getting every possible
assistance from the bureaus of the
southern lands in it's own work.
THE work of preparing promotion
literature is something that has been
given years of careful work by the
committee, and the matter in this line
published today will compare favorably
with that of any other. country or sec
ton of country in the world. The
committee consistently tries to avoid
intruding in any way ON the field OF
private enterprise believing that wher.
ever possible it is its province to en-
courage such enterprise. For this
reason partially, the plan of very ella
borate souvenir booklets and histori-
cal or descriptive books is not now
followed by the committee, the cal
for this class of matter being amply
supplied by local dealers at reasonable
rates. Instead, the aim of the com
mittee is to furnish data on the ISL
ands of every description that could
be OF use to the tourist or prospec'
tive resident, in clear, concise form
land in such manner that the seeker