Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-05
Former Honolulu Resident Is
Honored in Hobart, Tasma!
mia, as Promotion Com
mittee Member

Antipodes.
The Hobart, Tasmania, Post Of
August IL contains lengthy account
of speech which Doyle. as mem
Der OF the Hawaiian Promotion Com
mittee," made before the Tasmanian
Tourist Association. Doyle did some
good boosting for Hawaii, too. In
fact, the Promotion Committee may
have hard time recognizing itself in
the following laudatory account from
the Post:
"A special meeting of the Tasmani-
an Tourist Association general COM
mittee was held at the Tourist Blu
reau last night for the purpose Of
meeting Mr.. G. NJ. Hanson, consul
for America, and Mr.. ]. W.. Doyle,
member of the Hawaiian Promotion
Committee, both of whom spoke on
tourist and immigration methods in
America and in Hawaii. The mem
bers of the general committee present
were Messrs. Henry Dobson (presi-
dent). p. s. Seager, I.S.O., e. j. Rog-
|ers, J. w. Beattie, H. L. D'Emden. C.
w. Hemery, F.. H. Piesse. Aldermen
Williams and Smith, Hon. j. w.
Evans, M.H.A., and the secretary, Mr..
J. Moore Robinson.
THE chairman, In welcoming the
visitors, said that they both represents
ed a great country. In Tasmania we
lived a long way from the center OF
the universe, and realized that we
had lot to learn from our American
cousins, who would be able to intro
|duce the members present TO methods
and ideas that had never previously
occurred to them
"Mr Doyle said that about 10 years
ago the Hawaiian Promotion Commit
tee was inaugurated. Previously Ha-
waiis had taken things very quietly,
but In 1900 IL was annexed to the
United States and with that move
came American hustle. Their first
venture in advertising was the tour
of man with pictures. Unfortunate
ly he did not visit the right parts and
did not bring himself into contact
with the travelling public. They had
to demonstrate to the Hawaiians that
additional tourist traffic would mean
benefit to them. Most of the native
citizens were waterside workers, and
they were at length got to realize
that more tourists would mean more
transport trade. 1t was therefore COM
paratively easy to get an appropria-
ton out of them. The tourist authori-
ties in Hawaii now derived an annual
subsidy from taxes and other sources
OF f10, 900. .sT.sss
lit came down to this, said Mr..
Doyle, that the Tasmanian Tourist
Association wanted people with
money and these people with money
wanted accommodation a little Bit
better than they could get at home
They had perhaps waited q long
time for their holiday and were ready
to pay for it.
A Profit on, Climate.
In Hawaii they sold their climate
and made millions of dollars yeal
out Of. 1t. They catered for the win
ter. tourist. Every man who went
away from Hawaii, If he were treated
properly, was what they called 9
booster or what down here was
termed Boomer. They had had
Great difficulty in enlisting the sym
pathy of people like merchants, who
were apt to look on and say: "Oh
the trade will come all right" (Hear
hear) They we're out for sugges
tions all the time. A few years age
they had started an annual carnival
which had become a tremendous &suc
cess. One dissatisfied tourist did q
place more harm than ten satisfied
ones did good, He supposed that in
Hobart, as elsewhere, the tourist was
looked ON as fair game, the idea being
"He won't be here again, and we
might as well take it out of him.
(Laughter.) Well, that was the sort
of thing that the Hawaiian tourist
committee was out to kill. Cabmen
for instance, ALI the world over, in
variably tried to take down the tour
ist The association made it lis
business to prosecute such men in the
courts. Compared with the Ha
waiian Association Committee, the
hobart association had the easiest
thing in the world, for this city was
within two days of the mainland
fHear, hear.) If they made the
trade, the steamship companies would
soon enough provide the accommoda
ton.
Captain Evans-Hear, hear.
"Mr. Doyle continued that he lhad
come over to Tasmania on the SIS
Loongana, and would ask for nothing
Letter, but they wanted two such
boats instead of one Every dollar
that was spent in attracting tourists
was returned tenfold-that had been
their experience in Hawaii.
"Mr. Dobson-Have you any trouble
in getting that subsidy out of YOU
government"
"0h, yes, we have politicians like
you probably have here, why try tc
make an issue of it. The committee
had found in advertising that they
had to keep going all the time. Il
was no good giving one big Hip, hip
hurrah!' and then going to sleep for
the rest of the year. Uaughter.l II
was a case of hustling all the year
round if they wanted to do any good
Value Of Advertising.
One means of advertising that the
Hawaiian association had adopted
was to place gigantic THERMOMETERS
in Snu,a nlaco where IL was fronzinc