The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-04-05
Chinese Shippers
i0FEERBANANASAT .
lone eENTAPOUN
While Haples Have Boosted the
Price; 0rtehtaIs Are Ready To
Supply Fruit AT Cheap Rate
VICTORY BREAD, CAN a5s -
.,..,.....s STILL BE PRODUCED
Regular Supplyss Available, Says
w. A. Anderson In conih,unit &
- cation, To The, advertiser


vhlnese pahana growers nave come IN
the rescue of the bakers and users OF
banana bread, and are providing n fruit
suitable for baNng purposes at one
cent 4. pound.
'%These Chinese represent fpur .ffths Of
the banana gro~eFs on the Ialand AMI
lave provided the fruit at n price fixed
ut the time Of the banana campaign. IT
spite OF the fact that +. h MARSHALL, a
banana shipper, 10 reported to have told
The, Vigilance Corps bandna committee
that the Chinese would rather let their
fruit rot than sell 1t for one cent o
pound in+'', 'N. ~,
Such are the assertions made in n
communication which'IW. A. Anderson,
another banana shipper, has sent to
Inc Advertiser, and which were partly
confirmed yesterday by g. s. McKen-
zie, manager OF Loves Bakery.
The COMMUNICATION emphhsizes the
assertion that A. j Campbell, who Il
on of the shippers Held responsible by
the committee for the attempt to raise
the price Of bananas from one cent to
two cents pound, which was frustrat
ed bv the publicity given the subject
Nv The Advertiser, did not in reality
shippers in quoting the increased price
Campbell on His Own
Anderson writes Of Campbell:
"He has been acting for himself
alone, and think has never claimed to
represent anyone else"
II was through the efforts and aid o!
Anderson that Loves Bakery has beer
able during the past few days to secure
~ R.afti broad nm(
cent q pound, says Mckenzie.
Mckenzie says Anderson, through
Chang Hoon and other Chinese, has in
formed the growers Of the kind Of fruit
which is acceptable to the bakeries
which. the Chinese growers are gla(
and anxious to sell at the old price.
The quality of the fruit is what y
known in the trade as criPple'
punches" says Mckenzie. For baking
purposes the bananas are as good d
any, for the "erippled punches at
simply small bnnches which do no
come up to the fifteen and twenty han'
punches required for export. Othe
than being small lunches the frut J
as good as those from the big lunches
but on account OF the size are not mar
kstable II shipped to San Francisco,
Supply Is Regular
Mckenzie says that another adVah
tage gained from buying this fruit, be
sides the reasonableness or the price
Is the regularity or the supply
When he was buylng the othe
kind there would be days "hS'
he would nave demand TOT lEVo ioaNe
or banana bread ana no bananas on u
market, or sometimes plenty or Dana
mas and no orders tor banana Dread' pe
cause patrons had been disaPPointe
when ordering before ana II was lmpo'
sible to MI the ORDERS a.
He points out that the use OF Tn
small punches IL not only ecohoiiilc'
for bread making, but also does nc
lessen the export supply
Inquiry made at the Young BAKER
brought the Information that all IN
bananas USED whlch uld not come lro'
the Young farm were stlli purchase
by the bunch from the Ierrltorial MAJ
ket, and that At was not khowh goo
fruit could be secured Tor one cent
pound. e., j.,
Both the Anderson Ieohppunlcatlo
and the Love BAKERY manager make
appear that there Is large supply
the bananas f~hism can be bought 70
cent pound Mr.. Anderson lette
follows; -,
Editor Advertlser-l our art'cle o.
the banana situation Pupiished IN IN
SUNDAY AnVeEtiSer was VI g.oat 'n'o,
est 10 me, 10 nus t neen Io a onmsnmntio
~ hanahas "a war measure. and n
an effort to preserve to the Territory al
industry which has possibilities tina
have ncver heen ALTERNATELY realized
The creation Of Banana Bread as n re
kuIt OF the campaipn must have beef
esnecioIlv gratifying to overv Iowa
American interested in the conservation
~ cereaIs
Thh article mentioned WAS of particu
lar interest FOR two reasons. It indi
cata1 that the continued making of ba
mana bread was threatened by a report
ed effort at profiteering through doub
I;ng the price Of bananas to be used TO
tho mr., AZ after the bakers had ed
he'll A r,ire for the bread based OIL
tLa nrica nnoteI than for the banana
during the campaign: and stated tina