The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-17
With President A. W. T. Botoley In the ChaInsect Pests and
Parasites Plant Diseases Field Practise and Cultivation Milling
Marketing and Other Topics Receive Serious Attention

The thirty.ffth annual meeting Of
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Associa
tion convened ar the chamber Of com
MERGE rooms Tuesday morning. The
retiring president of the association.
j. NJ. Dowsett, delivered his address
as follows:
Gentlemen:
cit is my duty as president of vour
association to open tits, the 3Jth an.
nual meeting of the as sss IA zion, AMI t.
all those in attendance extend 4
hearty welcome.
THE keen interest shown in tho
business which was transaC ,ed at 0ur
last meeting by the large number of
members who were in ATTENDANCE was
testimony enough to the important,
and value of these annual meetings +,
the industry in which we are engaged
and l hope that at this session the
free exchange of ideas and expert
ences, particularly by those of us
whose business if is directly to pro
duee our sugar, will be of benefit and
pleasure TO all engaged in the sugar in
dustry of this Territory.
Future History
at is a trite saying, which present
conditions in Europe do not contra.
diet, that that country is happy which
has no history, and il can be snid
with equal truth that the sugar indus
try of Hawaii is fortunate when the
president of its association has to cN
plOre the mysterious future in order
to find topics wherewith to pad his
ANIMAL address, for a favorable sea
son, heavy Yields, good prices and
peaceful, if not wholly cOntented labor,
leave me little to say as to the past
except that | trust our good fortune
will kindle in us sentiments of graft
tude and generosity, which will find
expression in acts which correspond to
them. That one deserving class will
not be forgotten, ! shall shortly show
The verN few statistics, | give you
will take tittle time to read, and MAY
be useful at least for reference.
"The past year gave us a new rec
ord in our crop of sugar, the total
yield being 646, 446 tons, this amount
exceeding that of 1914, the next larE
est, by 29,4Os tons.
The Weather Helped
"Some Of the credit for this large
yield Is due to the exceptionally ia
voTable weather in the summer of
1914, which especially benefited the
nOn-irrigated plantations on the Island
of Hawaii
The average price for our product
for the year ending October 81, last,
based on the average Cuban basis tor
SO degrees centrifugals, in New York,
was ABBA cents per pound IT fS9.S6H
per ton.
Good crops of sugar have been
obtained in all the cane growing cnum.
tries and with the yield of the beet
crop on the mainland also large, a.
well as falling off in the world : con
sumption, lower prices were expected
towards the close Of the year.
Recent High Prices
"A scarcity Of ocean tonnage" Low
ever, in the past few months, thereby
delaying the marketing Of the last Of
the 1915 Cuban crop, largely contrib
uted to sudden demand on the part
of the eastern rehnPrS for supplies of
raw sugar to meet their requirements
as this season of the year, resulting
in the price of the raws aga II advancing
until it reached the high point oc rhr
year early this month. Still, prices to
consumers have never reached figures
which worked a hardship to anyone.
"Sman numbers of Filipinos have
arrived during the past wear, and ns
the result of the better knowledge Of
the superior labor conditions here,
communicated no doubt by those here
10 their friends at home, "A better class
of these immigrants that what the PIC
neers consisted of has been obtain, t.
and, a high value is now placed on this
labor by our managers. They, rapidly
after their arrival, gain in weight and
strength and are soon not only DESTROYS
but become wen able to compete with
their fellow wOrkmen of the d.ffrreut
races,
1.-THE conclusion is clear that the al
vantages, which it was hoped woulI
be derived BY the Philippines, through
some of its people being given an op
portnnity of working alongside Of
other labor, which is everywhere r.
garded as highly efficient, are be II.
secured.
""No other labor, in which the nsso
citation is directly interested, arrived
during the year 1918.
Plantation Improvement
''The continued Improvement in the
domestic conditions Of our plantations
claims sqme part in the improved
health Of our labor, which has hrrn
good during the year, and the wages
now paid, if they do not satisfy all,
leave little ground for complaint.
1.-THE good prices obtained for our
crop make the bonus payable to all
labor on our sugar plantations recclv
equal to twenty per cent Of the wages
paid, which, is at the rate of $3.50
for the year, substantial addition
which ] am sure none of US bogrudgr
paying to this useful class Of our pop
ulatiOn.
1.-THE important work of the expert
ment station under Director Agre con,
tinues, and will he fully dealt with IN
the report of the experiment station