The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-11-15
Hawaii Got ON
THE RUBBER MAP
Experts Attracted by Exhibition
Talk Of Visiting the
Islands Soon.

hAWah Is 10 De4eNi6lted IN the near
future by some of the rubber experts
who had their interest aroused in the
prospective rubber output Of the Is.
lands by the exhibit of the Hawaiian
product at the International Rubber
and Allied Trades Exposition, held in
New York in September and October.
w. A. Anderson of the Nahiku Rub
Der Company Of Maui, who had charge
of the exhibit from Hawaii, says that
the Island booth, though modest as com.
pared with those of Ceylon, Malaysia.
the Philippines and Brazil. was spen
didly located and attractive in appear
ance. The islanders did not expect to
compete with these foreign booths, in
asmuch as their entire expenses were
betrayed by their respective national OF
colonial governments, while the HAWAII
booth had TO depend entirely on re.
sources other than governmental to see
it through. The expense of renting
space and fitting up the booth was paid
for by subscriptions of the Nahiku Rub.
Der Company the Hawaiian. American
Rubber Company, the promotion com.
mittee, Alexander & Baldwin and the
Pacific Development Company, and
there is small deficit yet to be can.
celed. The expenses of the commission
ers were paid by themselves personally
the exhibit being furnished by the four
rubber plantations and the promotion
committee.
Plenty of Interest.
ga great deal of interest was shown
in Gawaii,' reports Mr.. Anderson.
''and all, apparently, very kindly
Several brokers and manufacturers who
have visited all the known rubber.pro
ducing countries in the course of their
business development, declared their in
tention of including Hawaii in their
next itinerary, and all expressed them
selves as DESTROYS of assisting us in any
! way possible. / think only one manu-
facturer of all these was aware that
We were producing rubber in CONNER
cial quantity, and this one was sur
prised at the size of our exhibit. The
manager of the exposition, Syaines
Manders, made every possible, effort to
help Hawaii.
with the exception of the Philip
pines and Hawaii, each of the countries
exhibiting crude rubber gave receptions,
Brazil serving coffee as a part of its
refreshments, and receiving the Bra
lillian ambassador as its most distin-
! guished guest.
Plenty of Boosting.
Z" A noticeable feature of the EXPOSE
ton was the amount of advertising done
| by these several countries. With the
| exception of Hawaii, every exhibitor
had special literature published for the
occasion, and some kept hired agents
circulating on the entire floor distrib-
uting the literature, advertising their
countries in general way. Brazil and
/, Maylasia each maintained a moving
picture show, open, free, afternoons and
evenings. This, together with the adj
vertisements | saw throughout the coun.
try of moving pictures illustrating the
crude rubber industry, might well be
made part of the projected Maui pro
motion scheme now under preparation
There appeared to me no good reason
why "A Day on a Hawaiian Rubber
Plantation should not prove as attract
i've as the advertisements | did see OF
"a Day in Malaysia.
On the Rubber Map.
''Our participation in the exposition
put Hawaii on the map as rubber
producing country, with known posi-
bilities represented by rubber from it,
plantations and from its newly founC
endemic forest trees. 1t served to dis
tribute considerable amount of gen
eral promotion literature, and especial,
of the agricultural possibilities. Nor,
particularly, it placed our rubber wher,
it could lie seen by every broker ant
user in New York, and, / believe, wa
seen by most of them, and Furnished
opportunity for making acguaintanc
with many of these. great deal wa
learned as TO the method of curing AM
packing the product, which viii max
it of more value to the manufacturer
: And our new gum was brought to tn
attention of the leaders of the rubbe
industry in the country.
The Straight Tip
Incidentally, the exposition CAV
the opportunity to answer correctly tn
question asked by one of our visitor!
Are the Philippines in Honolulu
81 am obliged to report that our SUI
} ply of the Hawaiian Promotion Con
mittee's literature was quite made
=. quate. All the Primers and 'Agricu
b tural Possibilities in Hawaii were e>
= hausted during the first few days. o
4 the third day 800 copies of the ne'
5 folder arrived, and by careful husband
n ing We managed to make them last fiv
n days We could have used four time
as much as we had. -
!. Secretary Wood of the PROMOTE
!. committee has already had Bonine, TIL
n motion picture expert, 60 to Maui I
4 look over the rubber section, with
!, view to making motion pictures of tn
ii industry.