The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-03-23
Promotion Work For
Hd,Daii

lends of the other islands want it to do. ID
ute all previous efforts to persuade the Mat
es and the Hiloites and the Kauaians that Il
romotion committee is playing no particular
.lfish game for Oahu iat the expense OF the on
ders, the dull eye OF suspicion continues to
irned this way. The Maui News, whose edit
-as associated with the promotion committ
n considerable length of time, and who shou
now. better than the average, just what &
romotion committee endeavors to do day ait
ay. IS one of those who believes that if only Il
Inside islands had representation on the cor
littee all would be we'll In its last issue, tn
aper says:
The Honolulu chamber Of commerce
is about to enlarge its promotion COM
- mitee to include member of the Homo
lulu board of supervisors. The posses
sive pronoun is used advisedly, for not
withstanding the fact that the territorial
and county governments pay tribute to
the committee to as great an extent as
they can be induced 70 stand for, the
promotion committee, is, as it always
has been, solely creature Of the Homo
lulu commercial bodies. But now the
combination seems to have been broken,
e though perhaps it really hasn't, for the
new member is still a representative Of o.
Honolulu However, the entering
\ wedge is in, and perhaps Maui and Ha-
wall and Kauai may also get voice in
the publicity body if they go after it
@ The suggestion has been made before,
and met with the objection that it
would not be feasible for the islands
representatives to meet with the ire
uuency that is deemed necessary. If
Maui is given chance to name repre-
sentative, however, there are half
dozen men living in Honolulu who
might satisfactorily fill the place. Or
the committee might hold monthly meet
ings, at which a member from Maui
might reasonably be able to attend. In
ny any event the promotion committee, if
= it is to be really representative of the
Territory. and not Of Honolulu, merely,
will very soon have to adopt some such
plan. Hilo seems determined to put a
paid representative in Honolulu, and the
Maui chamber of commerce has talked
of the same scheme; while even Kauai
is sitting up and taking notice. The
time isn't far off when all parts of the
Territory will insist on some kind of real
representation in the capital in promo
ton work.
What representatives from Wailuku a
ilo and Lihue could do to promote tour
travel to their respective islands more than
being done, we do not know. The average to
st who comes to Honolulu is possessed of
ordinary degree of common sense and cannot
har he m liT1oh al
see the Volcano or visit the manifold see
beauties of the Valley Isle and we have not
had any fact to back up the oft told tale of a
tourist being persuaded against his will not
visit the other islands. On the other hand,
average tourist who comes to Honolulu cam
be shanghaied and put aboard the Maui, Haw
Or Kauai boat, check book in hand, and forced
take an inter-island trip. The only thing t
ian be done is for the promotion committee
supply truthful statements to all inqurers, a
through the press and by personal canvass of
hotels and boarding houses, attract tourists
the promotion committee rooms. And this is
ing done
The Advertiser every week publishes m
about the tourist attractions of the other iSa
than all the papers of the other islands combin
and the afternoon paper in Honolulu publis
much of the same class OF matter. 1t is true t
we urge our tourist visitors to see the beau
Of this island as we'll Oahu has no volcano,
Haleakala and no Waimea canyon, but we h
a great deal here that tourists delight in.
The promotion committee cannot perform +
acles, either in the way of flooding Honol
with tourists or diverting great crowds to
outlying sections of the group, but it is a ma
for wonder on the part of those who know W
means and costs to see the RESI-
accomplished on so little. Honolulu spends
a fraction Of the amount for advertising HaV
as Libby, Mcneil & Libby spend for advertis
the pineapple output of a single cannery. A
bacco firm spends more in advertising Bull L
ham in Honolulu than Hio spends in advertiS
the Island of Hawai- in all the world. What M
contributes to the promotion committee doe
meet the bill for postage stamps. If the lsla
d ever Alternately advertised n will NOT he 1,