The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-08-20
PROMOTION BOARD .
may. GET. WHARF TAX
MORE Than Hundred Thousand
Dollars In Fund--Announce-
- lment Made BY Berndt ,

Valley last night, Chairman Berndt
announced that steps would be taken
shortly to have the shippers wharf
taH fund turned, over to the promotionl
oFHfH,ittde 10 finance this organization.
Mr., hBerndt said that there was more
than 100000 in this fund now which
has been accumulating for the past
seven years or moro.
Members Of the Hawaiian Promotion
Committee and the rrcss were the
guests of Alexander Hume Ford last
hiVhN az the Yoraku En- Tea Gardens
in Nuuanu Valley, with the purpose
of giving his guests first hand knowlt
edge of one Of the most unique and
picturesque beauty spots Of Honolulu
and to exploit this little known section
of the city as a tourist asset. .. .Me
"A sufnptuOus Japanese dinner was
laid before those who assembled at
the tourist boosting. gathering follow
ing which, an informal discussion was
held regarding future promotion work
Of the Territory
Berndt Outlines Plan
Chairman f. A. Bcrndt briefly out
lihed plan of financing this i'm.
portant work which will be taken up
and gone into more thoroughly short
ly By the chamber of commerce. Mr.
Permit said that the only logical means
Of carrying on promotion work in Ha.
wall was to put the Promotion Com.
mittee on a sound financial basis. He
flrew the attention Of the promotion
lists TO the fact that more than 800,
UOU was now in the hands of a special
committee of the chamber of commerce
which had accumulated through the
shippers wharf taxi Mr.. Berndt 3
plan is 20 have this money turned over
to the Promotion Committee to be used
toward financing this organization in
its various activities.
"Phe Promotion Committee" said
Mr.. Befndt, "has been existing ever
since Z il. was first organized on what
a number of merchants style 'dona.
tions In fact the board Of super.
visors look snpon. their allotment to
this fund as a donation, along with
other charities. This impression should
not prevail. Some of the merchants
af this city and some of its large
Firms contribute yearly to a promotion
fund. Some do not Still the whole
community receives the benefit of tour
lists coming here. By using this money
n.I the shippersS wharf fund every
inefchant and consumer in the city is
a contributor toward the fund. "
Meet In Quaint Gardens
For some years the Pan Pacific work
ers have been encouraging Ny. Y. Ishii,
the Japanese philanthropist, TO enlarge
his Japanese garden on the banks of the
Hildebrand stream about the water
falls near Kuakini Street. Year after
year Ishii has added new temples and
japanese tea houses until now the gar
dens cover more than an acre of ground
embracing one of the most attractive
bits in all the islands. Between this
Japanese garden and Liliuokalani Gar
dens, there is but an acre of land, and
1t was to secure this acre that the CO.
operation of the Promotion Committee
was asked; the plan being to throw
the two into one and cut an avenue
through from Nuuahu Street to I.ihu-
okalani falls MI Emil Berndt for
the Promotion Committee responded to
Mr.. Ishii's address and said that he
the wonderful tea gardens
that were revelation to him an asset
to Honolulu as great as is KilauPa to
Hawaii, Haleakala to Maui or Waimea
Canyon to Kauai, and this was rrdors
ed by the other directors who had for
an hour wandered about the best beau.
ty spot on Oahu, Liliuokalani Gardens
and the Japanese tea Garden, which
Mr.. Ishii stated last night had changed
/ tQ from Vnrnlk NH oh
meeting place, to the Japanese cQuivn.
lent Of Pan-Pacifc Gardens,- as owing
to advertisement in the press three
fOurths of his visitors are now haolps
and few tourists go away without visit.
ing the japanese beauty spot of Homo
lulu.
Conference In September
After the banquet was ovor, the snb
iect' of the proposed PaH-Paeiic Con,
ference on Balboa, or Pan Pacific Dav
Sept. II came up for discussion. 1t
announced that Balboa Day would be
celebrated entirely around the Pacific
this year and that it was expected
that in Washington, D. c., the Pan-Am
crican Union would give Pan Pacific
banquet at which Secretary Franklin
K. Lane would present the flags of the
Pacific nations, given to him for that
purpose in Hawai-, to Woodrow Wilson
with the requeAtt that he acceM H9nbES
ary presidency of the Pan Pacific T. nion
In Honolulu it, is hoped that the re
painted diorhmas will be installed about
the Pan Pacific Club house by then AMI
that the week will bo given over to an
lnterisland Pan-Pacific Conference. tax
ing in a way the place of the annual
Civic Convention.
Considerable discussion ensued, and
in addition to the various Y. N. c. A.
workeFs,O all races on the Islands who
will control session, as, well as the
Red Cross workers., haOle and, Orientals,
it was suggested that the subject of a
real lnterIsland Tourist Bureau be
brought up as the main feature for dis
eussion at the PanPacifie Conference,
and that +. d. Tenney be invited to
place his views on combined tourist
work before the conference, and the
best prOmOtiOnists secured to reply to
his arguments unless il develops that
Mr.. Tenney is an advocate of greater
Hawaii Tourist Bureau supported by
the entire territory and working for
the entire territory.
Alexander Hume Ford was appoint
cd as a coRmittee of one bv Mr Berndt
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