Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-21

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with proper dockage facilities, and
that all port charges shohld be ma
ter!ally reduced before the openi3g of
the Panama Canal If the port would
become one of the shipping eenters
of the world, were the recommends
lions offered by the committee on
harbors, shipping and transportation,
composed of Elmer E. Paxton and E.
H. Wodehouse, at the annual meeting
of the chamber of commerce yester-
tady afternoon.
The reading of the reports OF the
retiring president, other retiring Of
ncers, and of the chairman of tee
several committees, took up the
larger part of the session, and the
election of officers, coming near The
close of the meeting, placed several
new men in Office Hon. George r.
Garter was elected president to sue
coed E. Faxon Bishop, while Frank
G.. Atherton was reelected vice-pres-
ident, and H p. Wood secretary and
treasurer The new president was
not in attendance at the meeting, the
chair being occupied by E.. Spald-
ing But teg than...s were made In
the trustees tlr' ~ AZ Submitted by.
the nominating committee consisting
of ]. r. Gait, chairman; w. r. Castle,
and j. M. Dowsett. those elected being
E. z. Tenney, E. F. Bishop, j. F.
Cooke, James ID. Dole, F. Klamp, G. f.
Davies, ]. w. Waldron, A. w. I. Bot
tomley, W. F. Dillingham;, A. J. Ken
nedy, W. w. Goodale and ]. R. Calf.
A resolution was adopted char Cling
the date of the annual Meeting from
! August to March. thereby calling me
next annual meeting of the chamber
for the third Wednesday of March,
1915.
Depicts Dark Outlook.
I'VE find ourselves and our Iaain
industry facing the present tariff
situation. Lower prices than have
prevailed for a decade are in eyi-
dence, and short crops are due to the
prolonged drought. 1t requires sum.
! moning of all that is optimistic and
cheerful within US to prevent a gen.
eral giving away to depression over
the outlook for the future / have no
hesitancy in making a general state
Il
during the past year has been excel
lent, and in many lines the volume
OF business has been greater than
ever before
The foregoing optimistic remarks
in the view of the impending sugar
Legislation is an excerpt from the
lengthy report of E. Faxon Bishop,
retiring president of the chamber,
who now is absent from the terri
tory. Mr.. Bishops report dealt to
some extent with both the present and
the coming outlook with regard to
free sugar, and some space is given
tc resume of the results of the SUI
gar campaign which Hawaii waged in
Washington.
st must be admitted that we are
facing grave crisis" says the report,
probably the greatest crisis of Ha-
vail industrially, and It is perhaps
difficult, If not impossible, to see our
way through the gloom as there APP
pears to be but little that is hopeful
in the outlook, so far as tariff pro-
lection is concerned, to our main in
dustry. We must, therefore, help our
selves and go to the task with all the
courage and determination that we
can summon. What may happen in
the interim of three years before the
free list provision takes effect, no
man can foretell. It viii be period
of suspense and anxiety in Hawaii and
with the odds against us, but it will
certainly be futile for us to wear our.
selves out with worry meanwhile. Bet
ter hopeful view, as much can hap
pen to turn the tide from us, and our
energy may be well stored up for
work rather than worry. The sugar.
industry is so abnormally the main.
spring Of our commercial existence in
Hawaii that any disaster threatening
it is of community gravity. Hence, il
is that the tone of my general re-
marks thus far has dealt with the SUI
gar situation as affected by the causes
enumerated" Other mfSters taken
up in Mr.. Bishops report were the SUI
gar campaign, the Mediterranean fruit
fly and the steps taken to eradicate it
in Hawaii, the army and the navy In
(; Hawaii, road problems, the establish,
n1ent of the wireless service, Homo
.
smaller agricultural interests and the
inter-isIand floating drydock. The re-
port was practically complete one
touching on all the main points OF
vital interest to Hawaii today.
The report Of the secretary showed
that year ago the chamber of com
merce had a membership of 141, and
during the year seven of these mem.
bers were lost through various rea-
sons. Ten new members were added
during the year. giving the chamber
total membership of LA to date
Eleven regular and five special meet.
ings were held by the board of trus.
tees during the year. while three meet.
ings were held by the members. The
treasurer's report showed the total
receipts for the year to be s14,6S5. 50
and the chamber now has balance OF
s149.76.
Promoters Need S5o,oo0.
That the promotion committee
should have $4,000 per year placed
at its disposal during the next three
wears was tha gist of tho ANIMAL r.a-