Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-07


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% This week was -signalized by q;
% one Of the biggest events on the :
% Hawaiian calendar--the annual
% meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar
q Planters Association. Ii opened
o on Monday morning and conclud-
% ed with a banquet on Thursday
q night. About fifty members were :
q present at the sessions, which :
. were occupied with the reading :
% and discussing of reports of :
:. standing committees on different
- matters Of cultivation and manf- :
q facture, and the hearing OF ad. ;
:; dresses by experts employed at :
2 the associations experiment. sta ,
y ton. Among the latter was an {
u informing treatise on fertilizers ;
q by Prof. s. s. Peck, who empha-
% sized the Importance of the sub :
q ject with the remark that the :
o planters were annually using 50,-
. 600 tons of mixed fertilizers, at :
q a cost OF between two and three 8
q million dollars. DR.. Harold l..
. Lyon gave an addresse on the {:
q fungus that was devastating the 3,
q eucalyptus trees on Mount Tan :.
. talus behind Honolulu, as we'll 3
q as attacking certain fruit trees, :;
. removing popular impression 2
q that the dying of the trees was .
Q caused bS drought. Visits were .
. paid to the sub-station on Oahu .
. plantation. where a large area .
{. is Devoted to cane cultiyating :;
!. experiments, also TO the main eX- q
. pertinent station in town with its 2
!; cultures and labor stories, as ::
. well as the Federal experiment ::
!: station. On the closing day the =
3 meeting discussed the labor sit ::
8 uation behind closed doors, but :;
. il is learned that no action was ):
!. taken tending toward any change ::
!; In policy with regard TO the lab .
. or supply The planters will con- .
!. tinue to receive the best labor ::
. elements available through their :;
. own efforts and the immigration ::
. service on the Territory. :
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Z Some interesting land deals were
reported this week. Through ]. w
Pratt's agency James A. Wilder. ar.
DIST, bought from III. Rahim, an East
indian living at Vancouver, a beau
tiful scenic tract containing nine and
one-half acres, overlooking Nuuanu
Valley, for the sum of $1,000 net to
The buyer. Mr.. Pratt also effected
the sale Of the Dayton homestead on
Liliha street, containing one and ono.
half acres, by Mrs. David Dayton tC
Mrs. Percy NJ. Pond for $1,000 net
10 the seller. The Bank of Hawaii
sold to Hans Charles Engalls a lot
1920 square feet, on tho
mauka side of Lunalilo street, for
s4250. Judge Sanford B. Dole sold
10 lillian Barker Lymer piece Of
land with a frontage of $50 feet on
Puunui street and containing 10000
square feet, for $2100. The old Camp
bell homestead on Nuuanu street
with contents of rare old furniture
and articles of vertu, will be sold. al
auction on December 81. The prem.
ises are valued at $4,000. A. F.
Judd, manager of the real estate de-
Dartment of the Guardian Trust Co.
has denied a rumor that the McCully
tract had been sold by that company
Whieh bought il under foreclosure q
short time ago.
Statistics presented at the planters
show the sugar crop of
he past season by islands as follows:
Hawaii, 209,920 tons; Maui, 14S.5S5
IONS: Oahu. 1912 tons; Kauai, ST.
PAL tons; total, 595.25S tons. The
crop of 1903 was 437.991 tons. but it
was less in each Of the three follow
ing years.
Calls for tenders Of various kinds
are advertised as follows: Board Of
purchase of hides. and
for supply of beef cattle, to noon O
December 16. Maui Loan Fund Com
at Wailuku--cOnstruct O.
4 reservoir at Keokea, to 10 a. m. De
cember IA Board Of Harbor Com
missioners, at Honolulu-for con
a wharf and approach al
Kihei Maui, to y. m. of December
p. Queens Hospital-for supply Of
fresh bread, of fresh milk and cream
and of drugs and medicines, and me
IDEAL and surgical supplies, to moor
December is. Office Of Chief Quar-
.ermaster-fo the construction of re
dam and pipe line for Soho
field Barracks, to II m. of Deem,
Der IL.
Freitas & Fernandez were the low
psf bidders at $799f for the, erection
If a disprnsary building at the Ia.
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