The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-01-18
FAIR
WORK is STARTED
Committee Organizes, Secures
Secretary and Offices and
Sets Date In Iune For Event

Active preparations for the first
Territorial fair at Honolulu have been
begun, the committee has met and or.
ganized, a secretary has been secured,
Offices obtained and tentative date
has been selected, II was learned yes
terday afternoon from Chairman James
D. Doueherty of the fair committee,
Subject to change, IL II shall be deemed
necessary or desirable, the fair will be
held during the week which begins
Sunday, June 9, probably opening Mon.
day, June 10, and with Kamehameha
bay, Thursday, June IL, as the big
day Of fair week" st@ IN q
Organization of the committee has
been formed with Capt. James u.
DouQherty as chairman, Harold Rice,
representing Maui, H. ID. Case. Kauai,
James Henderson, Hawaii, and valen,D
tine 8. Holt, Oahu. After numbers OF
amount Of deliberation and careful con-
sideration. the committee has selected
Charles X. willard as secretary and he
win open Offices for the fair committee
within the next few days and put the
Secretary Is Experienced 49, ..
Mr.. Willard has been Inspector for
the United States government of the
work on the Hilo breakwater, has been
given six months leave of absence
BY the government to handle this work,
is an engineer Of experience and a.
such capable of taking charge Of the
supervision Of all construction work;
has had experience with fairs and sim
liar undertakings on the mainland and
/ il in every way qualified to undertake
the executive work for the committee.
His selection gives satisfaction and
the committee considers itself fortun
ate in having been able to secure his.
services. Is, h. .rLa.r 81
As yet plans for the first Territorial
fair are purely formulative. Tho prob
ability is the fair period will be Eve
days, certainly not more and probably
not less. Since many Of the exhibits
will come from the outside Islands and
some may not be in place the first day,
1t is probable the full Eve days will be
utilized. June 10 to Is inclusive are
the proposed days and have been tenta.
lively selected with the idea Of giving
recognition to typically Hawaiian day
as the big day Of the fair. Should oh
lection arise to the dates for any rea
son, however, II will he possible to sci
a little forward or to set back as
might be desired. E..
Several Sites Considered
Grounds for the fair is a matter that
has had some consideration but has not
been determined. Several sites are nm.
der consideration by the members of
the committee. The advantages of each
site will be carefully considered before
q selection has been made.
50 also are the special attractions Of
the fair matters which will be later
determined. 1t is certain the Terri
torial fair will have all of the most at
tractiye features of those which were
held at Hilo and Wailuku and other
added. The committee has the adyan-
tage of the experience gained by Hilo'
and wailuku with Hawaii County and
Maui County fairs. Already applica
tions and requests for information have
come from the mainland for the install.
lation Of amusement features.
offer New Features
Undoubtedly livestock and agrieul-
tural products will form the chief dis.
custom of state and county fairs. This
year the opportunity will be at hand
TO show what the Territory is doing
in the way Of making itself capable OF
| sustaining itself from its own produce,
animal and vegetable. There win also
be an opportunity for the women to
show what they are doing in food con
servation.
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consideration. Whether these will be
held and the extent in which they win
enter the program will depend on the
location selected and the facilities af.
forded for such sports on the site
finally selected.
Must Be Bigger
All of these things and scores Of
lOthers will be for the committee to de
termine and the members realize their
positions are no sineeures and their
secretary, upon whose shoulders will
naturally fall the major part Of execu
tive work, will be a busy man for the
time is none too long. More is ex.
pected of Oahu than was expected of
Hawaii or Maui county in their under
takings but the same splendid eoopera-
ton of all of the civic organizations
| ana OF all OF the races OF the lblanuh
can be counted upon and there are
larger resources to be shown. This
will make necessary arrangements for
Ia large display, especially for manu-
features and for Manufactured goods,
One thing can be promised! The
committee will 60 after a display from
the schools, Of the work done in the
schools and out of them, so far as
school gardening is concerned, which it
intends to make one of the big feat.
ures. This was mentioned by Captain
Dougherty yesterday in the very gen
eraI outline of fair plans which he
gave.
The appropriation for the Terri,
tOrial fair provided the first one
should he held in Honolulu aud there
after the other counties are to have
their turns, the idea being to replace
county fairs by an annual territorial
fair.
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