Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-06
BIG'STEAMERS
TO CARRY MEAT

lU bAkKI MEAL
Meat In transit from Australia to
the west coast of the United States
will not all pass through the port Of
honolulu, although the Oceanic liners
Ventura and Sonoma are filed to capa-
city each trip with refrigerated cargo,
q large portion of which is discharged
here
Plans have been perfected for plac-
ing at least four large freight and pas
senger steamers on line operating
between Sydney and San Francisco, as
intimated some weeks age in the COZ
umns of the Star Bulletin.
Charles HoIdsworth, general mana
ger for the Union Steamship Company,
who has been spending some time on
the coast, has this to say concerning
the possibilities of marked increase
in tonnage.
We started the service between
Sydney and San Francisco" he said,
as an experiment. When we decided
that we could make success OF II we
purchased the Tahiti II is our in
tention to replace the Moana and
Acrangi with vessels Of the Tahiti
class. This, however, will not be im-
mediately.
According to advices brought to'the
coast by the Tahiti the Union line has
purchased four big freighters, two OF
which, equipped with refrigerating
chambers, viii contribute two month
ly service between here and the an
fipodes, bringing frozen beef and NUT
ton and taking back California pros
ucts
Mr.. Holdsworth said the report was
i bit premature, but declared that II,
upon thorough investigations the trade
promised to be remunerative, his COM
pany would provide the necessary
steamers and increase the service as
the business developed.
He said that the meat business be-
tween Australia and the United States
might develop into an important trade,
but that no definite arrangements for.
handling It had been made. His COM
pany, he said, was in the field to do
business and would provide all the.
ships necessary when shown that they
cotid be operated with profit
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snip punnape Proves Valuable
Something like 100000 feet of
lumber, of which no record is kept,
leave Portland for offshore ports
every year. This is the lumber used
for lining the grain-carriers, It took
about $4,000 feet of the product to
lire the British steamship Historian,
now in the harbor, and one Of the
largest commercial vessels ever to
come up the Columbia and W'llamet-
te rivers About $4,000 feet of lum-
Der Is ample TO line the average wind
TANNER engaged in the grain trade
between here and European ports.
Including tramp steamers there usual
ly are from 40 to so vessels laden
with grain leaving Portland for the
United Kingdom every season Often
the lnmber used in them for lining is
disposed of on the completion of the
voyage at a good price. Although
unfinished the lumber is Of a fairly
high grade. Occasionally portion of
il is brought back and made to. serve
twice for lining.
New Harrison Line
The steel screw steamer Ingola has
been launched from the yard OF Mes
srs. David aud William Henderson &
Co, Ltd, Patrick, Glasgow The In
COLA has been built TO the order of
Messrs. Thomas and James Harrison,
Liverpool. for their Harrison Rennie
line of passenger and cargo steamers
trading between London and South
Africa. She is 416 feet long, has a
gross tonnage Of 500 tons, and is
built in excess of The requirements of
LIoyd's registry for the highest class.
There rs accommodation for over 100
first-class passengers. The dining
saloon and the music room are in
enamelled white, and the smoking
room is in polished mahogany. The
vessel is fitted with wireless tele-
graphy. and complete installation
OF electric light has been made. This
steamer win be a valuable addition
TO the fleet known as the Rennie
Line
Rains Poured in kona.
Officers in the Inter-Island Kilauea
report an exceedingly heavy rainfall
along the Kona and Kau coast of Ha-
wall The steamer returned from the
Big Island this morning bringing a
large assortment of cargo including.
products of the islands Among the
items were 5000 sacks of sugar. LIS
sacks of coffee. 6 sacks of ava. IA
sacks of ginger, 81 bales of wool, 40
bales Of hides. 1913 lunches of ba-
nanas, IS boxes pears. quantity of
empties. As cases of honey, 1177I
pieces lumber, &c crafas chickens, IL
crates pigs, 81 hogs and 200 packages
Of sundries. The vessel will be pre-
pared to sail on a return voyage at
noon Tuesday.
kona Sugar Report.
PIrser Sheldon in the Inter-Island