The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-01-12
FINDS IDEAL
CLIMATE HERE

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
waii beats them all. Mr.. Worthine
will spend the next six months here al
least, and may eventually decide ia
make Honolulu his home.
CATER visiting here twice. he
says, 81 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 DR.. Z. G. Rhodes,
now of Mani, who came here some
time ago, made turn at Wahiawa,
saw more opportunities and wrote to
his partner to come back to Hawaii.
Vile 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 honeymoon one
Naturally he has decided that his trip
| has been lucky one for him, even II
he founded no South Sea colony nor
invested in the copra isles.
In a political way, however, New
Zealand failed to come up to his expec
tations. 81 had heard it called the
I land without a strike,'' he said, "but
/ 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 t.
4 be tendency to recede and the coun
try is drifting back into the hands Of
capitalists again. Sir Joseph Ward
who succeeded Seldom as Premier
took up the burden of carrying ou
Seddon's plans, but at heart he is mo-
] in sympathy with them and the land
| grabbing opposition is making great
Roadway against the government. Be
fore long the opposition will be il
power and then the country will G,
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 tn,
land is held by the government in trus
for the natives, and the governing peo
pie are anxious to have white settlers
come in. You can get long leases OF
as much land as you want, from on,
hundred to sixty thousand acres, TO
ninety-nine years, at an initial renta
of sixpence per acre, gradually increas
ing to shilling an acre, with easy
Improvement conditions.
con Samoa nearly all the lands are
taken up. l spent some time there
and had a magnificent chance to SEE
the volcano of Savaii in eruption. Il
| was the most spectacular sight l ever
saw in my life and l am afraid thai
old Mauna Loa will have to take 6
back seat to Savaii. There is the same
old feeling of unrest in Samoa, how
ever, and the same old rivalry between
the two native kings. The native.
there are expecting and looking for
ward to an uprising at any time.
~ am not certain about my stay
here. / will stay for some months, al
any rate. 1t seems to me, looking OF
as a possible investor, that there is tor
much local money here for an outsider
to have much chance at the good
Shings. If there were not so mucl
money loose it would bring in outside
capital and fresh blood and | thinl
that that is what these Islands want