The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-19
SUGAR MOVEMENTS
TAKE ON GREATER
SPEED AT length
Total For First Hail of Month
indicate Last Years Average
{ May Be Reached
PROSPECTS BRIGHTEN u
r,ATF FOR MORE SHIPPING
Thirty ThousandTo saidlTd Be
Going BY Canal And First
Cargo Mas Departed

Movements Of sugar in the past two
weeks have attained a speed that is
highly encouraging to Hawaiian ship
peTs. Shipments thus far IN July have
been at n rate almost equal to the
average monthly shipments of last
year and Indications are that the rate
may be kept up and that certainly the
shipments will be in excess of June
which was the best month of the pres
ent sugar year and was 10000 tons
above the average for the past seven
months.
For the two weeks from July : to
July II shipments of sugar were 20
600 tons and last year, with more ship
ping available than thus far this year,
the average Of monthly shipments was
10000 tons. There is the probability
of that figure being equaled or ex-
cecded this month. June shipments
were $4,000 tons.
Indications are not wanting now that
a speed of 10000 tons a month may be
maptained and even surpassed for the
rest of the sugar year. If it is main
tanned it will mean that the last of
the sugar, except for any late grind
there may he ,Pesulting from labor
shortage, will have been moved by the
middle Of November. This would be
two or three months earlier than has
been indicated by the slow movements
of the first seven months Of the present
sugar year.
Reports are here, and these reports
seem to be fairly well authenticated,
that a considerable quantity of sugar
is to he moved east by all water route.
Thus, again there comes q change in
announced plans which have been
changed from time to time, back and
forth, for months past. First sugars
were to move east by fhe canal, then
all were to go overland, then again the
canal was proposed and again that
plan was abandoned. All sugar was
to be refined on the Pacific Coast and
on top of this announcement sugar car
goes were diverted to the East and sent
overland. Then came an increase in
rail freight rates and now, once more,
comes the report that shipments are to
be bysthe canal and, that at least 3d.!
900 tons are to be moved by that route.
Already one cargo of raws has left
Hilo for Philadelphia, between 1000
and 5000 tons in the shipment. Other
large sized cargoes are expected to
leave the Islands at an early date or
dates. So.
Eastern shipments when the sugar
goes to San Francisco and thence over
land, are costly to the Hawaiian grow
er and especially so since a twenty
five percent freight increase went into
effect. With profits none too large each
dollar of cost or of saving in cost on
each ton shipped is magnifed beyond
ordinary proportions. Thus the news
that sugar is to move east by way of
the canal instead of by rail, is of a
gratifying tone to local growers. q
In the news from the mainland the
prospect for sugar movements late this
year and through next year are much
frightened. Building is going on rapid
ly and there is every reason to hope,
even to expect, that an ample supply
Of bottoms mili be ready for the move
mont Of the last of this crop and the
first of the next. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that these vessels wall be fast
and, large but the shippers here will not
be particular and if sugar can be moved
with the usual total Of shipme nts each
month few days more or less in reach
ing destination will be Of no great i'm:
Portanee.