The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-14
los ANGE[ANS TAKE
STEPS TO ESTABLISH
TRADE WITH HAWAII
Chamber Of Commerce Considers
Ways and Means Incident
To HiIl Service

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Definite steps toward increasing Los
Angeles trade with Hawaii were taken
recently at a meeting Of the foreign
trade committee Of the Los Angeles
chamber Of commerce and representa-
tive jobbers and manufacturers.
Interesting sidelights ON the trade
with Hawaii as II was, IL e, and may
be, were brought out in the discussion
following the report Of L. N. BrunAwig,
chamber Of commerce representative
on the first trip of the Great Northern
in the recently established direct first.
class service between the port Of Los
Angeles and Honolulu.
As a result Of this. report L. d. Sale,
chairman Of the foreign trade commit
tee who presided at the meeting, APP
pointed the following committee to visit
personally the manufactures and job.
bers Of the city to enlist them In some
sort Of association with the definite OBJ
ject Of obtaining larger portion Of
Hawaii 8 S25,000,O00 annual trade for
Los Angeles: L. ID. Sale, chairman;
Douglas White, Sol. schih and Henry
w. Louis.
Publicity suggestions
The sentiment Of the meeting was
that the best way Of introducing more
Los Angeles products in the Islands was
through cooperation in giving publicity
and establishing high class selling
agency in Honolulu.
suggested, including the establishment
of a branch Of the chamber of com
meree where might be exhibited sam.
pies Of made in Los Angeles" ar
tieles. .5s
Mr.. Brunswig strongly recommended
the sending of personal representatives
to the Territory to build mp trade. He
recalled in his address the changes
wrought by time in trade conditions. In
the gold excitement days, he said, Cali
fornia depended on the Hawaiians for
its food supply, while now the island
people were not only purchasing heavily
of food stuffs from the United States,
but even were bhying oranges and
other tropical fruits. no
Douglas White, of the Salt Lake rail
road, Endorsed the remarks of Mr.
Brunswig and shed some light on the
passenger traffic that might be expect.
ed over the new route. He said that
not in history had the railroads had SO
many winter bookings from the East
and that the passenger reservations for
the next two sailings ofr'the Great
Northern were very heavy. 10y Nst+ 81
Logical Place To Trade H. .fls
From remarks Of those who had Wis.
tied the Islands it developed that Los
Angeles had grown SO rapidly as pro-
dueing center that the Hawaiians have
not realized commodities may be OBJ.
tanned from this port. iN.9
Government reports Indicated TO In
vestigators that aslarge percentage Of
the imports Of the HEVaiians from the
United States could be obtained in Los
Angeles. they buy a total Of $780,.
900 breadstuffs year, cotton goods
and wearing apparel valued ut 4I $780,
600, oranges $4,000 boxes, other fruits,
dried and canned, 100000, hay $1,000
tons, $4,000, 900 worth Of oil, crude and
refined, $4,000 worth Of beans, onions,
potatoes and canned vegetables, and
$4,000 in dairy products. All sorts Of
machinery are purchased and many 9th;
or items that could be furnished by the
Los Angeles metropolitan manufactur-
ing district. '..I.. ,5s A
The foreign trade committee Of the
Los Angeles chamber hopes 10 enlist the
aid Of every present and future expor-
ter in the movement started TO increase
systematically Los Angeles export
trade; not only with Hawaii, but with
all other ports where home products
may be sold. II Gt