Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-05
Hands Around the Pacific Idea
Meets with Favor Down in
Australasia
RI 1. II. FORD

ON BOARD SHIP, OFF SYDNEY,
Oct. 17.-The idea of the hands
movement is taking
a spontaneous and firm root in New
Zealand. Everywhere go am asked
to deliver an address on this subject.
In Wellington, however, they also
wished full particulars about the Ad
Club, with the idea of forming an or
ganization that would combine the
good features of both.
What will interest Honolulu more
than anything else is the meeting !
had with the directors Of the Union
Steamship Company in Dunedin. The
news of the work of the handS-around-
the Pacific movement had travelled
southwark, for in Wellington, before
the New Zealand Club, had urged the
calling of an Auustralasian convention
In Sydney to organize a get-together
movement for all Australasia. Sir
James Mills, the managing director Of
the Union Steamship Company, had
kokued this in Wellington and at Dun
edin special low rates were promised
delegates to Australia from New Zea-
land tourist bureaus, promotion COM
chambers of commerce, rail-
ways and others interested in Austria
lasian promotion work.
renewed my pleasant acquaintance
with the managing director of the
Ganadian-Australian line, Mr.. Mac
Clellan. explained to him what a
splendid, holiday resort Honolulu
would be for Australasia. He had
spent a day with Governor Frear and
myself In Honolulu years ago, seeking
ideas for the new hotel just completed
by his company in Suva Fiji. ex-
planned to him that cheap return tick
cts to Ceylon were sold from Sydney
and that Hawaii was very much more
attractive than Ceylon. We got right
down to brass taeks! He stated that
It was impossible for the company to
sell cheap return tickets to Honolulu,
as through passengers would buy
these and not stop off at Honolulu, but
go on. Returning they would use these
from Honolulu, making the trip at a
much less than through rate.
Excursion Rates Planned.
But was ready for this and ex.
planned to him that just before leay7
ing Honolulu ] had arranged with
Brother Kennedy and the directors of
the Inter-Island Company to place on
sale In connection with such a ticket
their SIS cruise ticket, and had also
that an additional $25 coupe"
ticket with the boarding houses, good
for two weeks board and this would
be sold in connection with the excur-
sion from Australasia. Mr.. MacClel
Ian saw the point and as soon as I
can make ARRANGEMENTS with the
Wells-Fargo in Honolulu these tickets
can be placed on sale both ways. for
I have already tentatively arranged
with the New Zealand government
railways for an agency in Honolulu,
from whence these cheap excursion
rates to New Zealand will be sold, in
Guiding months travel privilege over
all the railways of New Zealand. /
will make the same arrangements with
New South. Wales. These tickets will
be sold through the Understandable
Pacific Club and will cost about $3.50
for the round trip from. Honolulu OF
Sydney including stopovers at Fiji,
Auckland and sydney. will prob,
ably be able to include the inter-island
cruise of the Fiji islands, as well as
a month of free transportation, over
the New Zealand railways in this rate
from Honolulu. 49,.
Convention in Sydney. r
The plan now is to hold conven-
ton In Sydney on invitations issued
by the Hands.Around.the-P Club
there to all those who are interested
in attracting the white tourist. immi.
grant or investor to Australasia; this
to get the workers acquainted. A re-
turn convention to be held in New
Zealand that the workers may get
together and at a third convention
say in Tasmania, where they can be.
gin actual work. The sentiment
seems to be in favor of having a reg
ular Australasian office in Honolulu,
as well as ticket office and joint in.
formation bureau at the exposition in
San Francisco. I believe, however
that before that there will be com.
bination,. of all the Pacific countries
to support these two bureaus ade'
quately. The New Zealand newspa.
pers have opened their news and edi.
torial columns to enforce the fact that
Japan is the show country of the Pa
cific and that they should work with
Japan to get the tourist to make the
round of the Pacific. They have also
taken up the idea that the increased
wealth of China would mean that the
Chinese would become meat eaters
and wearers of wool, and,Australasia
would have to supply this demand. 1t
remains to be seen, however, how
Australasia will take this PROPOSE
ton, The cities of New Zealand are
certainly growing rapidly and all
kinds of preparations are being made
fer the increased trade that is to
come by way of the Panama canal
I took up with the Union Steamship
Co. the possibility Ibf having the
boats that run to San Francisco by
way of Tahiti stop at Honolulu, there
by making connection Of Honolulu
and Tahiti. 1t would make the
through trip two days longer and cost
about a thousand dollars more trip.
1t seems to me that upon the opening