Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-27

Find THEIR WAY
TOFAIR HAWAII
Advertising and Special Rates
Show Good Results for
Tourist Travel

cay the Sierra came in from Sydney
with enc stopover passenger The
Union Steamship Company OF New
Zealand, on the other hand. is send
ing sometimes scores Of visitors to
Honolulu monthly. because this COM
pany is advertising Honolulu on the
front pages of the leading papers OF
Australia as Australians holiday resort.
Alexander Hume Ford with the
Hands-Around-the-Pa Pacific organization
behind him secured while in Austria
liza a promise from the directors of
tho Union Steamship Company OF a
special advertised excursion rate to
Hawaii and this has been put in oper-
alton. Ford receiving letter from the
company yesterday inclosing copies OF
the advertisements in the Sydney pa
pers, and stating that the excursions
were so we'll patronized that they
will be continued.
At the Australian table at the Pan
Pacific dinner Monday there were six
ty sons of the Antipodes, and num-
her of these were visitors. Young
David Hunter of Sydney spoke Of the
work the Hands-Around-the-P Pacific had
done in bringing them to Honolulu.
He said in part:
Australia sent delegates to the first
Hands-Around-the-P Pacific meeting in
Honolulu, and there are branches Of
the movement in q number Of Austria
liam cities. The one in Sydney. for
merly called Hands-Around1he-P Pacific,
now the Millions Club has three
thousand members and Is rapidly
growing. The finishing touches were
put to Australians ardor for the
movement two years ago, when Mr..
Ford visited US. He accosted conser-
vative shipowners and told them that
they would have to make a cheaper
rate for Pacific tours, and further. l
suppose they swore at him. I'll bet
he swore at them. but the fact re-
mains today that Mr. Ford's requests
were granted. Today in Australia we
are advertising Hawaii as our bnli.
day resort, with the result that while
Ave years ago. am told the Austrar
! Han table was always the smallest at
| Pan-Pacific hanquets, it Is now the
largest, as you see. This might not
II
wall, but it is great factor in get
ting the Pacific people together. They
must know the good in each other
If the Pan-Pacific movement is to be a
success, and they cannot know the
good in each other till they visit each
others countries, and in the old days
travel between these countries was so
expensive that it could be enjoyed by
but few. My father sent me here
to study this Pan-Pacific movement
(and other things) for year, and
when go back to Sydney | shall
throw all the energy | have into this
great scheme, which, when realized,
will bring everlasting and uninterrupt-
ed prosperity to the people of the
Pacific Ocean"
The following is the display adver-
fisement from the front page of the
Sydney Morning Herald, teaching
Australians the way to Hawaii:
FOR YOUR HOLIDAYS
HONOLULU,
"The Paradise of the Pacific"
by r. NJ. s. Niagara and Makura,
the largest, fineSt and Destappolhteu
vessels crossing the Pacific from
Australia
A HOLIDAY OF SEVEN WEEKS,
Allowing 10 Days Stay at Honolulu.
GLORIOUS SCENERY.
WAIKIKI BEACH,
The Home of Surfing"
MAGNIFICENT HOTELS
RETURN FARE: First Class, 94S;
Second Class, e33.
For particulars and pamphlets apply
UNION s. s. co. of N. e., LTD.
.l&<,,t $40 v,<,,r,do ar