The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-12-08
ECONOMY 'sEFFlC lENC y. 4 FORESIGHT'' u
KEYNOTES OF BOTTOML EY,S VAL EDIC Glory

I gratulate the pathological division, on
the excellent success which has attend
led lie work ! IN connection with the
search for parasites for the anomela
beetle, aud the establishment on the
nfested fields Of one species Of these
! parasites, via, Scotia wasp. .tpgx, X
l The Makiki station has been en-.
tended by the purchase Of lot contain.
ing somewhat over an acre Of land ad-
\ joining the present station, and plans
have been approved and a contract, let
for hretproof building which viii pro.
vide additional room for the staff and
the valuable stqtiop library and en-
Genealogical collection. with the com
pletion Of these improvements, which
are being made Mt time when the
plantations can well afford to pay for
them, the Makiki section should be well
equipped for its work for some time
TO come. '..r4
tone of the most important subjects
which will be brought TO your atten
ton nj this meeting is the necessity for
n great Improvement being made in the
quality Of sugars which We are sending
to the tefners, and I trust this most
important matter viii receive your care
, full consideration and that some means
will he devised for the establishment of
q standard Of quality which viii be ad-
hered to by all ~
cen is a truth too well known 70
need repetition, that in order to OBJ
tain the best market price, a manufac-
turer has TO be continually on the alert
TO improve the quality Of his wares;
and H. for one reason or another, the
quality is allowed TO decline, the manu-.
facturer soon finds, in these days of
lcompetition, that he Is losing his mar
ket, or has to take lower price than
his competitors. This is equally true
Of the manufacture of sugar as Of any
thing else. ! ~ b
Competition Increasing 3d..
Competition in the sugar business, as
in almost every other line of business,
is becoming keeneF al the time, and
we may be sure that the Cubans, with
their eyerrinereasing crops, which they
sell in competition with each other and
with Hawaiian and Porto Rican sugars
Are losing no opportunity of making,
sugar more and more IN conformity
with the requirements of the buyers.
The resnlt win be that unless radical,
improvements are made at the begin
ming of, this crop, and continued
through the season, new contracts will
only be made subject to deduction,
based on refining value, greatly in ex-
cess Of anything we have ever had to
pay in the past.
| q Though we have long been accus-
toned to paying more attention to
getting as much as possible for our
sugars than we have to their quality,
feel sure that different methods must
be adopted in the future, and that
every effort must be made to change
Hawaiian sugars from being the least
desirable to being one Of the most de-
sirable sugars, offered to the refners,
and in doing this it must not be for
gotten that owing to the ash content
Of our sugars, we are already at a dis
advantage as compared with the Cub
FANS. 1T should also be remembered
that "a very, few, perhaps even one
lplantatioh, sending a poor quality of
Lsugar,. is quite sufficient to give the
whole business a black eye and undo
all the good work which is being done
by others, therefore / say that 1 be-
lieVe that all the plantations should
agree to make a standard grade of
Esagar which will be satisfactory to the
| refners and that through it's expert
ment station, the association should see
that this standard is lived up to by all.
IAttendancs Pull
I oIt Is very pleasant to see so full an
Iattendance Of members at this meeting,
iihcluding several Of our charter mem
hers, NAMELY, Mr.. +. c., ZONES, Mr. W.
TO- Smith and Mr.. George Wilcox" re-
EeretE however, that among the absent.
ices there are three gentlemen who
have by their long experience and
tgrsat knowledge Of the sugar business
Eeontributed mnch to the success of onr
annual meetings IN the past-l mean
M Tenney, Mr.. J. p. Cooke and Mr..
SwAnzy Two Of them, Mr. Cooke and
Mr.. Swanzy. have been very seriously
lii, as you oil know, but Am glad to
say that they are now considerably
better, and it is, know, the earnest
hope of all OF, us that both these gen
tlemen will be restored to health at an
early date and that we may soon again
have the benefit of their wise and kind.
ly counsel.
t'tfMv observation of these meetings,
extending over period of about ten
yenrs, leads me strongly to believe that
the interest in these annual gatherings
il ever, increasing, and that the partiei-
lpRtiOn in ldiscGssions following the
Ireading of the papers is growing more
and more valuable year after year,
This is most encouraging sign that
| we are all alive TO the problems which
have 10 be faced, for gentlemen, feel
that we realize that when conditions
beeome normal, low prices must be ex'
A peeted. even with a"eontinuance Of the
moderate protection which we are now
i0etting, I, Cor one, however, have nc
fear FOR the future. We have met and
overcome our bad times in the past al
we will meet and overcome them in the
futore, and have no doubt that the
men at the head of our plantations
who, by their energy and resourceful
lness. have brought the sugar industry
lof Hawaii TO the high position which II
nav occupies, viii be fully able to copt
with whatever emergencies may arise.
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