The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-09-17
Total Import and Export Trade
For Fiscal Period 1914-15
Was $91,139,425
PREVIOUS BANNER YEAR
ECLIPSED BY $6,9e5,665
Export Values Increase $2O,186,-
ls9 While Importations
Amount To $28,193,231

Thomas g. Thrum's commercial re-
view of the Hawaiian Islands cover
ing the fiscal year ended June 80, 1915,
which will appear in his next edition
! OF the Hawaiian Annual, was made ,,lb.
Shc by Mr.. Thrum yesterday. Follow
ing is the review:
Another year of substantial prog.
ress In Hawaii s commerce is shown by
tho customs tables covering imports
lbnd exports for the fiscal year ending
> June 30, 1915, from the recent Sum,
mary of the Foreign Commerce of tho
United States. In several features Il
| proves to be Hawaii s record year and
is well worthy of analysis for due an
probation of the facts and figures tIIey
represent; hence this brief review.
i In the first place the aggregate
;! value of merchandise passing in end
out or the Territory, including specie,
is $9l, l39,425 gain on the previous
4 banner year l9l2) of $6,995, 666. A
4 comparison of the outward and inward
4 values of these record years, however,
recalls more congratulatory grounds for
the year just close, for while the ex-
cess of export values over that o!
imports in 1912 showed 500, 7B5,116 TO
our credit we have for 1918 the nice
little sum of $36,O4S,72S. If to this
sum is added the reduction in, value of
imports from that of 1914, which was
$5,639,939, the benefit for our nc DINNER,
cial transactions for 1915 shows Sal,
6S7,66
Export Values Immense
Segregated, the total export values
including specie, amount to k62, 946, l94
a gain over the previous year of 500,
lS6;lS9, while the value of total ex
porte, including specie, is $2S, 193,23l
"Of the above total exports but
$377,5 represents the value of al
shipments to foreign 9buntries, the
mainland absorbing praet ideally our en-
tire export trade.
"The sugar industry and the i'm
proved market conditions for the same
throughout the year has given liberal
~ toward this benefit as per the fol
lowing comparative showing:
19l5--Raw sugar, Tbs, 1,253,66l ,612
$5l 1868 l2; refined sugar, lbs, 27,l95,
200, $3.50, 7O2; molasses, gals, 5000,
913, 81, 1lO,4O Total, $53, 145,18
,l9l4-Raw sugar, lbs, l,198,378, 1923
$50, l08,0ll; refined sugar, lbs, 25,37l,
574, 81 ,O79, 900; molasses, gals, 4,llO,
: 404, ,$l49,597. Total, 33,333517.
"These figures prove another ban
ner year for our main product, both il
quantity and value, exceeding the pre-
vious record year, which was in 1912
with 1,205,5l0 pounds sugar, and will
molasses exports gave value of 500,
OBS $50, thus leaving gain of So,
l06,432 over our former best year
output. :
Pineapple Exports Grow
1.-THE pineapple industry exports ais
show Improvement as whole, thong
the fresh Fruit, and juice, fell far be
hind the shipments of 1914, as show
! in the following comparative table
values:
1914 Fresh pineapples, $ll5, 754
canned pineappIes, 81 ,536,9l9; pineapPl
Juice, sos, 1896. Total, $4,72l 800.
10I5-+Fresh pineapPles, $52,92S d.
cline Of $62,Sl7; canned pneapples, s.
9s6, 100 a gain of $1,449,27l ApineapPl
Juice, k43, 03O a drop of $25,SS6. Tota
j. So, OS2 Jas a net gain Of $l,360,548.
t Other items of domestic produc
= sharing in this improved cOnditio
were: Bananas, which increased frOI
l07.9lO punches in 1914, valued g
$Ib ,9O4, to 23O, l44 punches this pas
y yohr, valued at $l47;02l. Hides an
SKINS gained $3l ,534. Tobacco ais
. g4ined 1855, and aviary product
$2652.
"Rice and coffee both show d
cHne as does also sisal, in value, thong
IS seventeen tons more was shipped
v
I'D also koa and ohia, are in the shortat
n list.
"The table of imports in their col
y narrative setting are worthy of exar
Is nation for a knowledge of market co
ditions. The total value Of all il
ports, including specie for the YET
i9l5, is $2S, 3,23l.
Building Materials Decline
T 1.-THE various lines or class Of II
ports do not show very marked dine
ences in value, the decline being in
D. few important products, indicating
he temporary lull, or an already supple
At, market. Lines indicating this conditi
ty are of the constructive class, ,nOtwit
p standing the prevailing building n
re tivity. In the one line of iron al
steel the falling off is $2,949,803. {
ment has fallen off sac, 800; copper a,
manufactures, some $4,000; electric
:, machinery, $4,000, and explosive
7 $666.2
NJ. "'Breadstuffs vary little in total val
i'll for three years past, ranging in t
h, neighborhood of $2,500,000 per annul
at fruits, etc, range from $372,O0O
ar $685., 900 a year; meat and diary pre-
he ucts likewise indicate little change,
limits the past three years being fro
81 ,l35.2S3 to $l,342, 769,
"The customs tables show rein
sugar in both the import and expo
lists. For the last three years the
- has been more than enough of isla
no refined sugar shipped away than wo'
all have supplied local requirements.
49, average of $4,000 per year might ha
y been saved from abroad for the I
g. enlargement of local enterprise, -