The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-01-07
Rev. Mr.. Peters Makes Sugges-
ton for Promotion Com
mittee Which Pleases.
IGNORANCE ABOUT TERRITORY
Strange Case of Postmaster in
Wisconsin Who Held Up
Letters for Here.
From Saturday Advertiser.

Suggestions were made to the pro.
motion committee yesterday by Rev. E.
{. Peters of the Christian Church, who
returned recently from tour of the
mainland, as to how certain districts
might be reached with information
about the Islands which would bring
more people here. Mr.. Peters spoke
before the committee at its regular
weekly meeting.
He said he came here to make his
permanent home and therefore, when
he went to the mainland, he tried to
pass along the word that Hawaii was a
paradise IN every respect and good
place to live in. In his recent tour he
visited cities in the Middle States
and IN the South, and in many places
lie found that campaign of promo.
ton would do some good.
lie found many instances where the
promotion work has been doing good
for the Islands. He believed in the
use of large photographs of the in.
comparable scenery of the Islands be.
ing placed in hotels.
At Church Conference.
While in Louisville attending con-
ference of his church, at which nearly
ten thousand people were present he
came across people who had only a
dim idea of the location of the Hawa.
nan Islands. One man asked if the
steamer to Hawaii ever got out of
sight of land. Another wanted to
know If the steamer stopped at Aus
tralian ports on the way from San
Francisco to Honolulu.
The next session of the conference
Is to be held in Toronto, and the com.
mIttee at once decided to be properly
represented there with booth from
which literature concerning the Islands
will be issued.
he suggested getting up a handsome
handbook on the Islands for use in Pull.
man car libraries. Secretary Wood has
already supplied many cars with books.
but will take up the suggestion again
and will probably have specially
bound book prepared for this class of
distribution.
Secretary Wood, in commenting on the
small amount of money available to the
promotion committee for publishing the
beauties and charms of Hawaii, said
that in Canada $3,000,000 had been
spent dur ng the past year on publicity
work alone and that an exact statement
had been prepared of the results. The
statement officially given is that for
every dollar spent for publicity Sll59
had been received
As to Postmaster
Mr.. Warren, a member of the com.
mittee, spoke of the uncertainty of
postmasters on the mainland as to re.
ceiving letters addressed to the Ha.
waiian Islands. He spoke of a firm in
Milwaukee which correspondent with
the Honolulu Photo Supply Company,
having trouble in getting answers from
Honolulu.
Finally the mystery was solved. The
postmaster at Milwaukee was refusing
to send letters which were marked
Honolulu, 7. H., saying it was an
improper address. The Milwaukee firm
wrote here asking what was the proper
form of address. Mr.. Warren sent back
a dozen envelopes received in one mail,
all marked in the same way. The Mil.
wankee firm will take up the matter
with the Milwaukee postmaster and put
him right.
1t was suggested that the entire mat
ter of Dostal service, as far as addresses
and time allowance for sending stamps
for an under-stamped letter are con.
cerned, should be taken up by the com.
mercial bodies for reference to the gen.
eral postoffice department.
The promotion committee is planning
TO be represented at the Auckland ex.
hibit0n in December, 1913.