The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-04-14
los ANGELES 70
. HELPON STEAMER
LINE |: FOR HAWAII Va !
Wants Islands To Cooperate In
Matter Of Solid Industrial
Foundation
MIGHT BUILD SUGAR
REFINERY IF ASSURED
Proposition Result of Campaign
Here To Keep Great Northern
On Run

Los Angeles is willing to help in the
fight for a continuous steamer service
| between the Islands and the Southern
california port, provided she gets her
own terms. Those terms, TO quote n
I letter received by the secretary Of the
Hawaii Promotion Committee yester-
day, are "a solid industrial foundation
by the establishment at the Los An.
geles harbor, Of a sugar refinery and
other plants which would utilize raw
products from the Hawaiian Islands -
This movement, which is said to be
gathering momentum in the Coast city,
Is one Of the direct results of the cam.
T'aign for the continuation Of the ser.
vice Of the Great Northern. made by
the chamber Of commerce and the pro
motion committee some time ago.
Subsidy Started Things
II will be recalled that l.. A. Thurs
ton, then member Of the promotion
committee, was sent to San Francisco
with an offer of the local business men
to make good the deficit which the
Great Northern might incur by con
tnuing her runs during the summer
months. At the time Mr.. ,Thurston left
the promotion committee also cabIed to
Frank Virgins, secretary of the Los
Angeles chamber of commerce, outlin-
ing what had been done by the local
interests, and asking what Los Ange'e A
was prepared to do to help. Mr.. Wig
gins replied saying that as body the
chamber of commerce was at that time,
unable to take any active steps, but
that the whole matter had been refer
red to the foreign trade committee of
the chamber for disc ussiOn and action.
The letter received by Mr.. Taylor, sec.
rotary of the promotion committee,
yesterday, is from L. d. Sale, chairman
of the trade committee.
Permanent Service Wanted
The letter begins by intimating the
great interest taken by the committee
In the question of a, permanent service
between Los Angeles and Hawaiian
ports, and pointing out the need of
stabilizing such trade as might be
built up, by the establishment of
sugar refinery" and "other plants to
uti''z" the raw products of Hawaii. "
Continuing it asks for "compIete
data covering the expectation of sugar
and such other raw products as you
think might be used in such plants. 1t |
is also essential that Los Angeles |
should become the distributing center
FOR many Of the products of the Ha- !
waian Islands which do not require
further fabricatiOn,' apd "as soon as
we are prepared to make full report |
showing exactly what can be done, the |
matter will be taken up by the board |
of the chamber of commerce and the |
industrial bureau, and every effort |
made to bring about definite action.' /
A Question of Money
Local sugar men, to whom the sug
gestion Of sugar refinery at San
Pedro, the port Of Los Angeles, was
submitted. declared last night that
there is nothing except question of
money to stand in the way of its az
rOmpnshment. 1t was pointed out that !
while about seventeen per cent of the
total sugar raised in Territory is rOut,
ed under long term contracts, which re
moves II from consideration in such a
project as that proposed by the Los
Angeles committee, at least forty per
{ ent of the total crop is not 30 hamper
ed all could 20 to Los Angeles or any
other place where the price might
rrOv" attractive and other conditions
agreeable to the factors. Forty per
cent of the total c OPP of the Islands
is, of course refined by the planters
themselves in their refinery at Croc-
kett, California, but the balance is,
as has been said disposable to any re
hnery that pays the price. There is
therefore, nothing in the shape of con
tracts to stand in the way of such
plant. Furthermore, it was pointed out,
such plant would he in the market
for the Philippine sugar aud could of
course, buy wherever it might be able
to do 80 at a profit.