The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-08-22
SUGAR OUTPUT
MUCH SMALLER
Committee Estimates that Income
From This Industry Will Be
S13,000,000 Less Than Last
Year - Commerce Shows I'm.
provcment-other Industries of
Territory Prospering.

luz UtWDet economy IN the prOdtc.
ton and marketing of sugar. follow.
ing large shrinkagc in sugar output
aud dividends, aud the imminent pas.
sage of the Underwood Tariff Bill pre-.
scnts grave situation for the chief
industry Of the Islands. and calls for
the adoption of any possible improved
and labor saving methods of cultiva.
ton and manufacture in order to save
the sugar interests from destruction.
This forms a part of the report of
+. !. Spalding and James d. Dole, com.
mittec on commerce., agriculture and
manufactures of the chamber of com.
merce, presented at the annual meeting
yesterday.
The committee s report deals exhaus.
lively with every agricultural interest
IN the Islands and gives much atten.
ton to the possible future shrinkage
IN values and output under the free
tarlil measure now pending in congress.
The report, in full, follows:
Commerce.
The customs statistics for the fiscal
year ended June 49, 1913, show total
collections of 81 1863 ,5l3.s9, or SELF.
'6O.O1 greater than for any preceding
year in the history of the Territory.
The cost of these collections amounted
to SlO2,3l3.69, leaving "A net revenue to
the federal treasury of $l,767, 200.
-Four hundred and eighty-three YES
sells of tonnage of $50, 255 entered
at this district and 176 vessels of a
tonnage of ,577 ,1O2 cleared from this
district during the fiscal period an in.
crease of one-eighth the figures for
BILLIE.
shipments from the United States
were valued at 500, 94O9, as com.
pared with S23,095,S SIS for 1912.
shipments to the United States were
Ti2, Il3,29l, as against value of 500
Oi6, 100, for l9l2, a net decrease of
Sl2, 362,Sl, due to the falling Off in
sugar shipments and value of the same.
fineapplcs on the contrary, show an in.
crease.
The total value of CARRYING trade
was $40, ESQ, as against $si,I45, $50
for the previous year. The above fig.
ted states transports.
Agriculture.
Sugar-The largest sugar crop pro.
duced in these Islands was taken off
in the year ended September 30, 1912,
VIZ; y95,25S tons, marketed at an aver.
age price of 4.20 per pound, an ap.
ptoHimate total value of $4,000, 900.
1t is estimated that the severe drought
OF the past year will probably reduce
the crop Tor the current year some ten
per cent under above figures, making
the output say 100000 to $4,000 tons
Through oyersupply in the world S mar
ket the price for six months ended
June 80, 1913, has averaged only 3.42
per pound. An advance of price to
average of 3.ji is noted for July, with
fair prospect for the entire crop
for the year averaging $50 per pound
or total of $37,OOO,OOO, falling off
of some $l3,0OOOOO from last year IS
receipts.
The construction of long tunnel
through the PERCEPTIONS and rocky
range extending along windward Oahu,
for the purpose Of conveying water
from the Nhahole and Waikane
streams on to the lands of the Oahu
Sugar Company, is the most important
work undertaken by any of our plan.
tations during the past year.
PineaPplcs-Tho output of pincapples
for the calendar year ended December
81, 1912, was l,3lS,33G cases. Owing to
shipping requirements cases contained
six onc-gallon tins instead of twelve as
heretofore, which would make the pack
figure out l,l00OOO cases on the old
basis, or AN increase of say 100000
cases over the preceding year.
The estimated pack for 1918 is /, 800.
600 cases.
The pack for 1912 was distributed
by islands as follows:
Kauai ...., 81 900 Cases
Maui ...... l30,32S -
Oahu ..... l,l569SS -