The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-31
I()OND|TlONSGRON
!. BETTERlN GOTHAM
Eastern Market, Gets Supplies
: That come Close TO Meet
ing Of Demands For Time

tNEwYoRk CITY, May lO-4 Tbcpur,
6liase ofsraw sugars arranged for by
tile Observation-Disclosures committee for
the week under review was slightly
,ihrge2 than in tile preceding week,
ahouht3ng to q total Of approximately
81, Ob0 long tons Of Cubas for May ship
ment, 10000 tons of Porto Ricos aud
aapproximately $500 tons Of San Do.
mt gos afloat. the latter consigned to
Oalhadiah refners, says Facts About
Sugar in its issue Of May IL.
The total purchases Of CubaS for
May shipment are now in excess. of
$4,000 tons, or elose.te oHe-half Of the
tdnhage which IL Is Expected tile com
mittee will arrange for to cover May
purchases. 1T is expected by the trad"
purchases ut least equal 10 the volume
recorded for this week will be arranged
in tIle yeek. to come, and that the total
9p1rc1ases o. Cubas for May will pass
the 5000 ton mark, the consensus of
opinion being that they will be close to
FSThe shipping situation eoStin6es to
be most favorable, and q STEADY Volume
of faws from both Cuba and Porto Rico
! il how coming weekly 10 this market
without Interruption. Arrivals dur
Sing the present week have been again
heavy and have enabled the refners to
I9fcreasc their MEETINGS by,a cGnsidera
BILE margin. II Is now apparent to the
trade THAT iii so Tar as the West indies
lttansportatio sitrati6n, is concerned
! the outlook Is exceedingly bright for
the balance Of this month and for June.
n e hnr IN
tive sources that adequate shipping
facilities to move better than 100000
tons of raws per month to Eastern and
! Southern refining points will be pro
Evided BY the Shipping Board FOR u con
4 siderable further period, at least long
enough to safeguard the sugar supply
of the country for the year.
General Improvement
"A continued Improvement in the gen
q! eral sugar situation is again reflected in
\ the Statistics issued by the Information
4 hl SuRhr' Committee covering refining
operations for the week ending May 4.
fhese figures show that the MEETINGS
4 Of tire entire country for this week total
Il 1894 tons as compared with 1891
tons for the previous week. MEETINGS
at Eastern ports were $3.50 tons, an
! increase of 1883 tons over the proceed.
Ing week Meetings. at Southern ports
i ahl66nted to ~1274S tons or 525 tons
! under those reported for the previous
| week. On the Pacific Coast, MEETINGS
/ Showed an increase Of over 30 percent
compared with previous week and
amounted to 10,9r6 tons.
# Receipts OF faws FOR this week fOI
the entire country showed decrease OF
l8,O75 tons, due largely to falling of
of receipts at Eastern ports from the
heavy arrivals of the preceding week
The total receipts for the week at al
refining points were 74,H60 tons. Tota
Eastern and Southern receipts amount
lei TO 7l,3SS tons, this latter figure
showing a decrease as compared will
1926 tons for the week ending Aprl
{ Of"
Il Raw stocks on hand for this wprl
showed a decrease for the first time il
several weeks, and now amount to %,
1888 tons as compared with l05,672 ton
for the preceding week and 92, l2S ton
FOR fhe week ending April 20. Tnta
MEETINGS of all refners for 1913 TO Ma,
4 are given as l,llO,2l0 tons and totu
receipts of raws for the same pcrlo'
AS y ,ra6.92S tons.
ouba Conditions
P" kdVices from Cuba for the we"l
! show falling off sin receipts compare
T., with the previous week, and clearly IN
; dicate, as was pointed ont on this pag
in the hist issue, TINT the mhXimuI
T weekly rate of production for this sea
: son has been reached, and that stead
Aeclfne in tile volume Of receipts ma
/ he. expected from now al the end o
: the harvest. The shortage of labor j
! Cuba is becoming more acute aud is al
Z FerIe1y affecting the outturm Th
opinion prevails in some quarters tina
there is very little likelihood of tn
. l1917-is crop exceeding 3,O0o,0O0 Ion
,lt0hs, and this revised estimate is r,
= 'eeivfhg considerable confirmation fror
Q Cuban SOURCES. With the rainy scaso
! near bit han ID, and the Cuban. producer
D disinelined to- attain q maximum pr'
=: ductiou, with storage facilities douh
full, factor, 1t is clearly apparent tina
4 there is little hope Of the final outtur
much exceeding the low estimate abo>
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