Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-24

the figures given at the hearing and
then continues:
I'm addition to the small planters
appearing personally, Nj. A. NJ. Ca
brinha appeared before the committee
and read a statement which, in gen.
-eral terms, asserted that the small
planters in the Hilo district are not
fairly treated by the mill corporations
in the matter Of weighing their cane,
deductions made for trash, etc, and
that the prices paid are not such as
to allow sufficient profit to the plant
ers to make fair return on their in
Vestments. c. Brewer & Company are
the Honolulu agents for the mills
complained of by Mr.. Cabrinha.
AN affidavit of Mr. L. c. Lyman.
principal of the Hilo Boarding School,
was filed, stating that in the year
1899 the school commenced the cult.
walton Of cane for the Hawaii Mill
Company. No areas of the fields cul-
tiVated are given. The first corp, the
labor Of which was performed by the
school boys, netted profit of $145.40.
"A larger area was planted for the
second crop, the plantation perform
ing all OF the work, the net result of
which left the school in debt to the
1plantatio In the sum of $1t77.54. The
school dscont inaed& piafting cane. No
explanations are given to show, why
the enterprise proved a failure. f.
critieissS Interest Charges. ,.+,,..
?: Your committee finds that the con-
Ere nfc hea1uaSy, fhx, cI,1a N 20 .,,o ara ot.I
Olaa Sugar Company, prior to the con:
tract of 1913, stipulated that the smaft
farmer should be- charged s per cent
compound monthly on advances. I'm
der the 1913 contract, interest is not
compounded monthly Your commit
tee Is OF the opinion that this manner
Of computing interest 10 most inequit-
able. ( x. y, 25s& = u: * Z -.
Mr. Curtis, as illustrating his con
tention that the small planter in
Queensland is accorded much more
liberal treatment than the small
planter hi Hawaii, filed with the COM
mittee a pamphlet entitled The In
telligence and Tourist Bureau" pub
lished in Brisbane, Queensland. This
pamphlet, however, does not purport
to be scientific or accurate treatise
on the sugar industry in Queensland,
but is more in the nature of promo
ton literature" issued for the purpose
of attracting settlers. ..
ION behalf of those holding that the
mill owners are dealing fairly with
the small planters and that they are
paying fair prices for cane, Mr.. Rich
srd Ivers, secretary. of C. Brewer &
Company, prepared and filed a state
Inent Mr.. Bettomley, treasurer OF
Olaa Sugar Company, read and filed
q statement prepared by Mr.. C.. F.
Eckart, manager of Olaa Sugar Com
pany. ... Il
"Mr. Eckart's statement deals with
the contractual ri;lations existing be-
tween the small farmers and the Olaa
Sugar Company at Olaa. He states
that when he assumed the plantation
management in 1913, the contractors
were dissatisfied with the prices paid
them; that the price of sugar at that
time was very low and the outlook
for the future was that low prices
would prevail.
"Mr. Eckart stated that the 1913
contract Is essentially low sugar
contract Its main features or dis.
tinctions are as follows:
a.. The attempt was made to so
regulate the cane payment rates that
the plantation would at no time make
a profit when the average outside
planter is suffering loss.
SO With low sugar prices the out
side planter receives the larger share
of the profits arising from the sale of
his sugar. With high sugar the plan
tation takes the larger share III
'Mr. Eckart further states that the
1913 contract has been: fayorably re.