The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-06
First Consignment To Food Com
mission Is Expected To
Arrive Next Week
COOPERATION OF WOMEN
IS AGAIN DISCUSSED
No Apparent Action To Complete
Organization Appears Since
Meeting OF Women May 81

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Additional shipments Of vegetables
from Maui are TO be made to Honolulu
through efforts Of the subcommittee on
marketing Of the food eomRission, and
the first Of such shipments is expected
to. arrive next week. II will include
potatoes, onions, corn, and perhaps red
beans.
At the meeting Of the Territorial
Food Commission held yesterday after
noon A. l.. Castle, chairman Of the sub
committee on marketing, read letter
which he had received from John j..
Walsh, manager of the Kahului store,
Maui, who has been acting with the
commission and in cooperation with its
agent on that island. He says that he
has arranged to receive from Maui
farmers and gardeners their produce
and to ship to Honolulu whatever sur,
plus there may be after satisfying the
needs Of Maui. ~,
Walsh gave some details Of his first
shipment, which, he said, would be
made next week. There are to be be-
tween 800 and 400 bags Of potatoes,
from $50 to 200 bags Of onions, from
500 to 700 bags OF corn, with the posi-
biity Of red beans being added to the
consignment to the extent Of 200 bags.
OF the vegetables which are to be
sent, Walsh said; ''The potatoes are
very good, the corn is excellent and the
onions are the usual fine Kula product,
and not like those grown at Kaihu. !"
Women's Cooperation Essential .
Another Of the matters discussed at
the meeting of the commission was the
desirability Of getting the women Of
Honolulu really interested in the matter
OF food conservation. It was recalled
that soon after the commission organ
lied there was a meeting for that pur-
pose called at the Bijou Theater, when
there was an attendance of several hun
bred ladies'. Since then the matter has
apparently been allowed to rest by the
executive officer and, so far as the pub
lie has been informed, no further steps
towards the organization of the women
Of the island or for a systematic cam
paign of household economy and con-
servation have been taken. One of the
commissioners called attention to the
.desirability of continuing the work
that was started at that time. He said
that steps should be taken to stir up
enthusiasm among the housewives, who
are in a position to do more in consery-
ing the food supply than the men can
at once be secured, and he suggested
that there be named committee to
take the necessary action to secure an
actual organization of the women and
to get the work which it is possible for
them to do started and under way.
Knows OF No Action ,H..%s. D.. .,~,g 81
yho nm nn
Of those most responsible for the well
attended meeting at the Bijou Theater
on May 81, was interviewed by The
Advertiser last evening in an effort to
learn what, if any, results had come
from the meeting and what, If any,
steps had been taken to furnish names
to the commission by the various won.
ems clubs and organizations for mem
hership on the subcommittee which was
TO cooperate with the commission, In ac-
cordance with the resolution presented
by Mrs. G.. p. Wilder and adopted by
the meeting. Go. . -. .,....g
$50 far as know, little or nothing
has been done" said Mrs. Alexander
in answer to the question. "There APP
pears to be some kind of mixup. The
head of one of the clubs told me she
commissioners. Beyond that / do not
know whether or not any names have
been handed in. ST.. -.
HAfter the meeting l was away for
a time and after my return made two
efforts to see DIR, Dean but he was out
on both occasions. / intend to see him
for have felt that the participation
that women can give is highly import
ant and that the matter should not be
allowed to drop as it seems to have
i am glad to learn that the commission
considered taking it up again and hope
something will come from the eonsid.
GRAFTON they gave the matter or will
give it. (.
$50 far as / know it was for the
heads Of the various clubs to turn in
names for a subcommittee but | dc
not know of any provision having been
made for any one to go out and get
the names or to see that they were
handed in. 1 assume the commission
or its executive were to do that and
i do hope that the matter viii not be
allowed to end with the meeting We
held at the Bijou Theater and which
was intended only as a first meeting
for organization and active participa
ton, to awaken interest in food con
servation, just to get started" q.
Hoover Gives Approval ,.. 80.
DIR. Dean, the executive officer of the
commission, read two letters which haC
been sent to him by Delegate KuhiC
"ongratulating Hawaii on the estab
lishment of food commission and ex
pressing the hope of cooperation wher
the federal food legislation passes
One letter, from Herbert G. Hoover t.
the Delegate, said!
81 have read with great pleasure
the bill passed by the Hawaiian legis
lature providing for food adnlinistra
ton in the islands. This is very
necessary aud admirable provision AM
one which l hope will be put into ad
ministration at the earliest moment.
"If the pending legislation befOr'
congress passes, establishing ma
ti0nal food administration we shall