The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-01-09
no RENEWAL
Of SUGAR
LEASES
So He Tells Coast interviewer
Rigid Economy to BE Put Into
Practise, Also, 10 Make Ends
Meet, and Some Territorial Of.
fees May Have to Be Abolished.

There arc tracts Of land now in the
hands Of the large sugar interests, held
under lenses. These leases will not be
renewed as they expire.
This is direct statement of land
policy credited to Governor Pinkham in
an interview with him in the San Fran
cisco Chronicle Of Dec. 10, which has
not been eontradicted or modified by
the Governor, so far as is known, and
which is causing some degree of un-
easiDess among some Of the lease hold
ers Of the Territory. The Governor has
never said anything on the land ques.
tion so bald since mis- arrival in Homo
lulu, but, on the other hand, he has
not intimated that he is not prepared
to stand by his published words uttered
on the Coast.
In his first ''Statement to the
1 Press, prepared by him in San Fran,
cisco and handed to The Advertiser on
1 the evening Of his arrival in Hawaii,
j the Governor touches on the land ques-
| tion, but lightly, saying;
/ Your Governor believes the pub
lie lands in the control, or to come
under the control Of the Territory,
should, in suitable areas, be first
offered for homesteading to citi-
zens, or those lawfully eligible, now
within the Territory or arriving
unsolicited, and who intend TO fully
utilize the land, alone or in cooper,
alton with others, for their own
and the public benefit.
4 IL is reported that within the
Territory only 305,053 ncres Of land
are under cultivation, of which
$4,000 acres are in sugar cane.
Evidently, while we hope for
much greater development the Ter.
ritory has not an arabic acre which
pabiic welfare can permit to lie
idle or be held for speculation.
Your Governor will bear this in
mind. '.;5.
T. More Explicit.
He WINS much more explicit on the
Coast, both In this Respect and in some
others. His Interview in the Chronicle
said, in part: ..
"tWith the depression in the Ha.
yaiian sugar industry and with the de-
crease in the value Of the taxable mere
ment from sugar, some methods must be
devised to replace the resulting loss in
,, revenue, or TO meet the coming situation
in some other way.
81 think the government will have
to be carried on much more eeonomi-
; eally than heretofore, because we have
been abnormally prosperous in all Ha-
waii for several years, which has in
dueed liberal public expenditures.
Some ofices May Go.
Z "Goyernor PiDkham declined to go
/ into details Of the forms his program
| "a 1.,a \
. !istration of the territorial government
4 would take. lie pointed out that the
salaries of the offices were fixed by law
!. but admitted that some of the Offices
a may have reached such q low degree OF
. usefulness as to suggest their abolish
1 mcnt. He also indicated that the appro
1 priations Of the annual budget would
i be carefully scrutinized with a view "a
\ reducing expenses, While manylchange
a lwopld be made in the existing person
4 mel OF the government. they would bC
q made gradually, he said. III. -
d 1t cannot be denied that there il
IS considerable apprehension in the Is
a lands in regard TO the effect of the
n new tariff, he continued, 'but over
Z production in sugar may cause the de
IS preston, rather than any administra
:
y now, and any decline Of prices in Ha
!. wall should not be regarded as due Il
is tariff which will not become effectiv,
1. until 1915.
n Governor PiRkham also indieatet
that he would tackle the public Lane
a question at an early date. ~
d To Regulate Land Laws
g 1.-THE most important change in tn,
Hawaiian policy so far as | am con
:. eerned will be moro liberal construc
Z ton of the land laws with referenc,
D to homesteaders, he said There al,
Y. considerable tracts Of land in the Is
Ie lands which could be thrown open :,
(, homeseelSers and are suitable for de
It velopment under IRRIGATION 1t is in tn
Is construction of the laws pertaining Il
le them for the benefit of the small holde
" that We expect to be more liberal.
Thele are also tracts OF land nov
81 in the hands of the large sugar inter
g ests, held under leases. These lease
n. will not he renewed as they expire .
IN -----s< -s----------
t. a victim to the dread white plague
II NJ