Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-17
Tells New Zealand Paper of
Many Advantages Boosted
by Hawaii Territory

Dy hdWdH Territory
The following. from the yelling
ton New Zealand) Dominion. shows
the good work being accomplished by
Alexander Hume Ford during his
q present trip to the southern cont.
Dent
Mr.. Alexander Hume Ford, who
speaks before the New Zealand Club,
this afternoon, is editor OF the Mid
Pacific Magazine" an illustrated
monthly published at Honolulu. in the
interests OF all the Pacific countries.
4 He bears official letters from the
governor of Hawaii and from the Ho-
nolulu Chamber OF Commerce, besides
being-with Governor Walter Fl
Frear OF Hawaii, and Mr.. Percy Hunt
er Of Sydney delegate of the
Hands round the Pacific movement"
to secure the cooperation Of all the
Pacific governments and commercial
bodies looking towards the establish.
ment In New York City Of a Pan-Pa-
cific Tourist Bureau and Commercial
Museum. In appearance, speech and
manner, Mr.. Ford is a typical Amer.
I lean. E<--<- -. .S~A ~
Speaking to a Dominion reporter
ON Saturday morning, Mr.. Ford said:
Our movement began five years ago,
when / was commissioned by Cover
nor Frear to study and report on the
Inethods OF the Government Tourist
Bureau OF New Zealand. / then visit
ed your country, and carried back to
Hawaii the plans for outdoor work,
and they have since been adopted.
You have taught us great deal, and
after five years / have returned TO
note which of your projects has prov
cd the most successful. Frankly, , the
thing that struck me most was that
somehow you are not exactly pulling
together as we have learned TO do.
Private Excursion Cars.
In Honolulu, II we wish to arrange
for an excursion for tourists or our
selves. we can at any time charter an
engine, with one or dozen cars from
the railway and charge our own rates.
Every weekend, however, our rail-
way runs a. cheap excursion fare,
8bout q penny q mile, the round trip
over the entire line. You can leave
Honolulu on Friday and return on
Monday morning IL you wish. The |
railways work in perfect accord with
the people.
Il was more than astonished,' 2
continued Mr. Ford "at the growth of
Auckland In fve years the city
seemed to have doubled In size. The
tourist bureau, however maintained
but one man in its office. ] expected
10 fnd several. There seems to bel
d rivalry between Auckland and Well
lington. cannot understand it. In
America every New Yorker advises |
the visitor to see Washington. We
are proud Of our capital and wish
people to see II. In Washington, on
the other hand, everyone advises you
10 see New York, and that should be
the spirit here.
Napier,s $4,000 Club.
AT Napier discovered very
lively $4,000 Club. II is odd how this
idea travelled from Honolulu to Napi-
er. In Honolulu we organized a Hun
dred Thousand Club, and Mr. Percy
Hunter came through, seized the
idea, and organized q Million Club in
Sydney Then Napier, hearing this,
organized $4,000 Club TO advertise
Napier. Now II that club could only
charter q train when it wished to and
Invite you Wellington people to visit
them, wouldn't II be splendid? Soon
the independent booming club OF
New Plymouth would be doing the
same and then there would be exeur-
sions to and from wellington in
every direction. And why not?
tho Get-to0ether Movement.
"In Wellington made a discovery
and that was that there is a desire
on the part OF the railways. the tour
ist people. the steamship companies,
and the independent boomers to get
together and all work for New Zeal
and. but no one dares TO cut the red
tape that exists somewhere We be
gan shipping our red tape In Hawaii
long ago. The most effective way is
to get your officials and directors out
at lunches with the people and talk
things over. We soon come to an IN
derstanding The independent boost.
ing organizations spriRging up in
New Zealand clearly indicate that the
people wish their tourist bureau to
have more power. New South Wales
studied New Zealand 8 methods and
went you one better There they
passed the steam rolleiaoyer the man
who stood betweent the tourist depart
ment and the railways working to-
gether, with the result that the tour
list bureau has runners fnSeyery d.
rection in, Sydney arranging Failway
excursions. You have new man in
power now and he can make his
name beloved by every tourist and by
you New Zealanders. Let your rail-
wayst and your tourist bureaux pull
together and don't forget the steam
ship companies.
The Coffin and the SIedee-hammer.
In Hawaii each island organized
its own Board of Trade or Chamber
OF Commerce.. and each island ac-
cused Honolulu Of knocking that is,
afisfsing tourists not to visit the 9th
er islands. Honolulu was spending
the money to advertise Hawaii One
bright day Hilo, Othe metropolis Of
the big island of Hawaii, woke up to