Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-12
FISHER HEARING
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morning by Secretary Fisher. He
told fof Waialua's operations, the
plantation having about 1900 acres
under cane, the leased lands amounts
ing to two-thirds of the whole and
none Of it being government land.
There are about 500 stockholders In
the plantation, about 100 of whom
live on the mainland. Three large
tracts. of leased land are owned by
the Bishop estate, the Holt estate and
the Gay estate. Most of the planta.
ton lands are in cane, but on the up
per slopes some pineapple. lands have
been leased to pineapple companies
or individuals engaged In growing
pines on tracts Of from to 90 acres
en- ten.year leases at a rental Of $40
per acre for selected lots. On large
areas and not selected leases are as
low as So per acre. Orientals are the
holders. no caucasians being tenants.
said Mr. Goodale.
Manager GOodale said he himself
began as q small cane grower just
after the old reciprocity treaty with
the United States was negotiated and
told of his experiences on what is
now Hawaiian Agricultural Company,
operating on 200 acre tract.
Asked as to his opinion of the prac.
ticability of installing system Of
small cane growers here, Mr.. Good
ale said:
Il think the difficulties are almost
.insurmountable. "
He then went into the difficulties,
pointing out the enormous expense,
of building irrigation systems, rail-
roads, mills, etc, 81
In harvesting crop it is neces-
sary to run mill full time. Any de-
lay is expensive. din harvesting the
crop IL is necessary to take off large
areas systematically. he said, point
Ing out the necessity of doing planta-I
ton Work ron big scale. He said
the plantation cannot undertake tOl
meet the wishes Of small cane grow
ers In taking off individual crops.
Asked for an estimate as to min
ifnum sire holding ne said at least
from $50 taerestiup He said a less
size would not be worth botheringl
with. ss9
Secretary s Fisher questioned the
manager at some length regarding the
use Of water on the tracts OF land
Under the present system and under
q system of smaller holdings, refer
ring to the possibility of government
ownership Of the water rights. Man
ager Goodale saw q number of diff
culties III the wayaof handling water
to number Of small consumers. HeI
thought generally speaking It isl
wiser in case of water shortage 70
concentrate the water than to spread
it out, and under system Of small
holders all would have to be treated
alike and the total sugar output
would suffer in comparison to Hri-
CATION by the other method.
Mr.. Fisher went on in this line OF
inquiry to apply 1t to the milling and
operations. He thought 1t
cutie possible that part OF the opera
lions in the field might be- done on
an organized scale. for many small
such as blowing. Time and
sssome hard knocks, would be neces-
sary to get an effective cooperation
between small farmers, he prophesied.i
Queried as to the efficiency of var.
ious classes Of labor, Goodale thought
Chinese labor is the best for routine.
He said Hawaiian labor is as good asl
the best where 1t, is available Hci
said the Japanese are good at organ
ization under their own supervision.
He said the Spanish IMMIGRANT Lar
borers are often from cities and
have to learn the business, the Por-
tuguese being more usually OF thel
agricultural class.
Mr.. Fisher then began to- ask about