Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-31
RATE
MEANS RAISE Of
DOLLARAHEAD
Inter Islands New Tariff is
Increase of SO Cents on
Cattle Below 600 Lbs.

Increased freight and passenger
| rates as planned by the lnti.r Island
Steam Navigation Company viii go
into effect tomorrow forming, accord
ing TO Vice-President James L. Nc
Lean this afternoon following g brief
meeting of the public utilities conf
mission. ."...., ..~. -..
The commission, which met with
representatives of the InterIsland
company and with A. w. Carter's at
torney to continue hearing on letter
from MIR. Carter of the Parker ranch.
Hawaii, which asked that an order be
issued for the change to be held up
until he had been heard on the sub
ject, postponed again until September
15.- A. J. Gignoux and w. T. Garden,
the only commissioners present at the
meeting today, disagreed as to the
time of the next meeting in the mat
ter, Garden wanting to wait for fuH
meeting and Gignoux wanting a hear
ing next Thursday. Carter's attor-
ney stated that Carter would be in the
city next Saturday. AS the matter
now stands the commission has neither
approved ncr disapproyed of the pro-
posed rates.
That the reason the Inter-Island |
Steam Navigation Company has raised
it's freight rates on transportation Of
livestock from Hawaii to Honolulu is
so that it can partly make up the loss
it now sustains on special trips to get |
cattle, was stated this morning by
Vice-President ]. L. Mclean of the
corporation. giving the company's |
side of the case relative to the pro- |
test made to the public utilities coyE-
mission against the new tariff, due to |
go into effect tomorrow, by Alfred w. |
Carter, manager and trustee of the |
Parker ranch. The commission is |
meeting this afternoon to decide |
whether to let the raise go into effect. |
The new rate practically increases
the freight charge on livestock shipped |
from Kawaihae, the Parker ranch /
shipping port on the Big Island, by /
about dollar a head The new rate
is cent per pound, dressed weight,
for all cattle land calves.
How this is a raise over the old |
tariff IS shown by the charges on this
commodity under the old sliding scale,
which has been as follows:
From Kawaihae to Honolulu, in
shipments of Is mead, or more, 500
pounds or over, dressed weight, cent
a pound; 500 to 599 pounds, dressed
weight, SIS head; 400 to 499 pounds,
81 a head; 251. to 399 pounds, $3.50
In other words, freight charges on
steer weighing 500 pounds will under
the new freight tariff be $3.50, against 4
the S. charged by the old rate. An
animal weighing 499 pounds will cost
$4.99 in freight, against 81, the pres
ent, charge, and so on down the line,
although for the heaviest animals, 500
pounds or above, the new rate is no
higher. The1 cattle are brought here
alive and the dressed weight obtained
from the slaughterers in this city.
Special Trips Costly
What Manager Carter is protesting II
about most strenuously, the Inter
island believes, is the clause in the
new freight tariff which provides that
irregular steamers, boats not running n
on a regular schedule, will not be II
sent to pick UP shipments of less than
rs head of cattle, unless special
charge of 81 head, in addition to
the cent a pound charge, is paid. The
Parker ranch now ships an average of
rs head to trip, making about 800
cattle shipped month.
ION the old basis we have lost
money steadily on these special trips
% pick up CATTLE" said Mclean, "and
our new rate is designed to help Us
make up that loss" He added that
the Parker ranch ships most of its
livestock on boats calling regularly
1t Kawaihae, but that the ranch has
frequently had the company make
special trips to pick up cattle.