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

The following, from the Yelling
ton New ZealandJ Dominion, shows
the good work being accomplished by
Alexander Hume Ford during his
present trip to the southern cont,
bent:
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.
He bears official letters from the
governor Of Hawaii and from the Ho-
nolulu Chamber Of Commerce, besides
being-wtth Governor Walter +.
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
meRt In New York City OF Pan-Pa-
cific Tourist Bureau and Commercial
Museum. in appearance, speech and
manner, Mr.. Ford Is a typical Amer
lean. eE-.r.. e ..- &
rs
on Saturday morning, Mr.. Ford said ::
"0ur movement began five years ago.
when ! was commissioned by Cover.
nor Frear TO study and report on the
methods OF the Government Tourist
BuFeau 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 a great deal, and
after five years ! have returned To-
note which ofsyour projects has prov
ed 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 Excurslon Cars.
In Honolulu. IL we wish to arrange
for an excursion for tourists or our
selves, we can at any time charter an
engine, with one or q dozen cars from
the railway and charge our own rates.
Every weekend, however, our rail-
way runs q cheap excursion fare,
about q penny a mile, the round trip
over the entire line. You can leave
Honolulu on Friday and return on
Monday morning II you wish. The
railways work in perfect accord with
the people.
Il was more than astonished,p
continued Mr.. Ford, 'sat the growth of
Auckland. In five years the city
seemed to have doubled In size. The
tourist bureau, however. maintained
but one man In its Office. ] expected
TO find several. There seems TO be
a rivalry between Auckland and Wei
lingtOn, I cannot understand e. In
America every New Yorker advises
the visitor to see Washington. We
are proud Of our capital and wish
people to see 1t. In Washington, on
the other hand, everyone advises you
TO see New York, and that should be
the spirit here.
Napler,s $4,000 Club.
AT Napier / discovered very
lively 10000 Club. II Is odd how this
idea Travelled from Honolulu to Napi-
err. In Honolulu we organized Hun.
drea Thousand Club, and Mr.. Percy
Hunter came through, seized the
idea. and organized a Million Club in
Sydney. Then Napier, hearing this,
organized q 10000 Club to advertise
Napier. Now If that club could only
charter train when 1t wished to and
invite you Wellington people to visit
them, wouldn't 1t be splendid? Soon
the independent booming club OF
New Plymouth would be doing the
same and then there would be excur.
sions TO and from Wellington in
every direction. And why not?
The Gei-tonether Movement.
"ln wellington made discovery
and that was that there is desire
on the part Of the railways, the tour
list 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 un-i
derstanding The independent boost
ing organizations springing up in
New Zealand clearly Indicate that the
people wish their tourist bureau to
have more power. Now South Wales
studied New Zealand's methods and
went you one better. There they
passed the steam roller over the man
who stood between the tourist depart
ment and the railways working to-
gether, with the result that the tour
list bureau has runners in every ydi-
rection In Sydney arranging railway
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-
ways and your tourist bureaux pull
together and don't forget the steam
ship companies.
The Coffin and the sledee-hammer.
IN Hawaii each island organized
its own Board Of Trade or Chamber
of Commerce, and each island &C
cused Honolulu of knocking that is,
advising tourists not to visit the 9TH
er islands. Honolulu was spending
the money TO advertise Hawaii. One
bright day Hilo, the metropolis Of
the big island of Hawaii. woke up to
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