The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-18
COAST
TRADE DEMANDS
MORE BANANAS
Best Fruit Comes From Hawaii
and Dealer Says Buyers
Demand u
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SAN FRANCISCO WILL
TAKE ALL That IS GROWN
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Only Thing Needed To Insure
| Business Is Proper Trans
portation Facilities

Another determined effort on the
part of Pacific Coast fruit dealers 70
secure a sure, and steady supply Of
Hawaiian bananas promises to revive
that industry in the Islands, at one
zine so important.
II Pearson, prominent fruit dealer
OF San Francisco, came 70 the Islands
IN the Great Northern with a view 10
Earning at hrst hand the exact condi.
ton of the banana industry and its
tutnre prospects, and also look into the
transportation problem in connection
with fruit SHIPMENTS, While in Hiio
he conferred with, Big Island growers
and now he is in Honolulu full 10 the
brim OF his plans to make connections
with the banana growers of the Islands.
whereby he and his associates can be
assured Of a permanent supply OF the
'Hawaiian banana, which has won ont
IN the race for the favor Of the Coast
toik with the bananas from Costa Riea
and Jamaica.
coa win Take An
"The Pacific Coast market win take
all the Hawaiian bananas Il can ret, -
Mr.. Pearson said yesterday. What
is being shipped now. is only a drop in
llhe bucket " what couIu De sofa,
Hawaiian bananas are better fla.
'yOred and sweeter than the stock that
reaches California from jamaica and
Costa Rica. People like them better.
They want more and are willing To
pay for them. ! came to Hawaii TO
see whether we can get more bananas,
and, If you will grow them for orr
trade, whether we can get regular
transportation service established that
will handle thisifruit. ~ 90
Depends ON Ships TX =
1t all depends on transportation.
The market is in sight and if there is
Ia certainty Of regular supply perhaps
we can arrange FOR vessels like. the
Great Northern to call here for ear,
goes of bananas at stated periods. A
Irortnightly service would ct in with
'odr; needs from the fruit . marketing
point of view. 49,, =
W. A. Anderson who has charge of
the Territorial marketing division s
Office at San Francisco came down with
Mr.. Pearson on the Great Northern,
and will return with him on the same
vessel tonight. They stopped of in
llilo and met number of the growers,
explained what is wanted, and received
assurances that the industry will again
be taken up on a large scale. Mr..
Anderson said that others who are in.
tcrested in selling bananas wanted to
come and probably will do so later.
THE Hawaiian banana has caught
on, " he said, "and very large vol.
ume of this fruit can be disposed Of
Fruit should 30 Grated - "''. p.
THE finest qualify of bananas ship
ped from the West Indies are Grated"
Mr.. Pearson remarked, "but they are
picked so long before they are ripe
that there is no comparison. with the
Hawaiian fruit. :.
THE prices fGi imported bananas
are based lon weights aud we would
rather buy by weight than by. the
bunch. The |haDdso can be cut of
the stalk, packed in excelsior, and ship,
ped in crates as you ship pineapples.
Many, bananas reach the Pacific Coast
markets packed that. way and they are
sold at so much per hundred pounds.
They handle better that way also, aud
you could probably get better rates
FROM the transportation companies.
Also, the small punches would sell as
we'll as the big ones. j." W.
i IL