Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-21
PINE CANNERIES
HANDICAPPED BY
SHOOK SHORTAGE
Inability to Get Material for
Crates Early Cause of
Much Trouble Now +.

Pineapple Gamers are worried over
the manner in which their product has
piled up and is piling up on them de-
spite the fact that sugar shipments
are now practically ended and the
steamers have room for canned pines
instead. The luscious fruit is in the
cans but the material for making
crates is not here. Since last spring,
during all the summer, the Gamers
sought to get a sufficient supply OF
shocks to make crates in advance.
foreseeing this contingency, but they
were unable to get the shocks in the
quantities they knew would be later re-
CURED and are now needed. Il:
Great Output Piles UP ......
There are 100000 cases, of canned
pines that must be moved between
now and the last of November or very
early in December, and do not know
how it is to be done because of the
lack of shocks for Grating" said a
pineapple man this week. THE Ma
noa could have had three times as
many cases of pines had the can
neries had shocks so that we could
already filed, but they have piled up
and are piling up on us because OF
lack of crates.
Shipping Period Limited
"Our goods must arrive on the main
land before the first of the year. We
recognized this as early as last spring
and then started our. efforts to get
shocks in, but we could not. We went
to the steamer people and made them
offers to bring us the needed shocks.
We raised those offers again and
again until we were offering as high
as $3.50 a ton here from. the Pacific
northwest bringing us our shocks. 1t
was without avail. Now comes the
shortage and if the steamship compa-
MES had brought us the shocks then
they in turn would be reaping the
benefit now with added quantities OF
pines for their cargoes. 1t is mighty
serious problem for US and 1t is not
cur fault that we face this condition.
Now the steamer companies are
bringing us shocks but they do not
come as fast as required, and we
should have had them long since. Our
output has piled up and is piling up
on us for lack Of crates to pack the
tins in" 49, .s:...
This was a representative of one or
the canneries, and he was talking to
man connected with another can
merry or at least who was acquainted
with the canning business. Later a
representative of the Star-Bulletin
called on The Hawaiian Pineapple
Company for a verification of the con-
ditions which had been heard.
The Hawaiian Pineapple Company
is taking out of it's warehouses from
six to eight thousand cases of canned
pines every day, according to Lewis
Z. Arnold, superintendent of the COM
pany, all of which are shipped to the
coast in various bottoms. He says that
considerably more could be shipped
st this time if shocks were available
for Grating. -- ..-.> II.
Bio inducements Offered
During the congested season, espe-
cially when the longshoremen's strike
On the Pacific coast was in full swing,
the Hawaiian company offered many
inducements to shippers for cargo
of shocks for the pineapple people
realized that they would be needed
and needed badly now. But ships rum
Eing directly from Puget Sound where
the shocks originate to Hawaii had
been taken off and the usual supply
was delayed A considerable supply
is yet to arrive. .....-..- ~.
Anxious to Deliver Goods
81 cannot predict what our years
production will be, for do not know
low much canning will take place
between now and the end of the year" "
says Arnold. "Of this / am sure, how
ever, that we are anxious to get our
goods to our customers, especially be-
fore the first of the year when the
freight rates go up. We are not parti.
cularly embarrassed now, but there is
certain satisfaction in promptness
which were are not enjoying through
10 fault of our own"