The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-19
PROBLEM
TAKEN TO CAPITAL
Committee Win Urge Higher
Price For Next Crop and
Other Relief Measures

Matters Of importance to the Hawa-
iinn sugar industry will be taken up
in Washington by committee sent
by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters
association, composed of J. w. VALID
ron, T. II. Petrfe and D. Mand,
wrrrh IS now en- route TO 'h2 "dtioral
capital Mr.. Waldron ne ls ~ com.
mittee as chairman. II i Snid that the
matter Of labor for n" Islands j.
merely one of several nruts that may
b. taken up by the co"m''t"r. "r its
mpu:hc"s, and that If II = tnkHn up
Nr Mead will not g. beyond the
matter of securing Porto R"nn labor,
the subject he had up when N the
Fast last winter, when h went to
Porto Rico to investigate
Cost Questions
Ono of the subjects vhi'h will re-
ceive attention is the rri'o for next
years sugar and, in all the Islands,
there is probably no ON h"t'er fitted
TO present the need of H1,2ii for O
higher price than is M %allron. He
has gone into the snbi q deeply IN !
weeks ago he presented ,lata 10 the
food administrator AMI the chairman
Of the national ard international
SUGAR commission shown" that the
rrirc fvca for this yra~ vas inale
ruatc FOR Wawnii. Dato TO how "a
The present price il -, rat'sf 'rto",
tcl'um days has bee" pr"rH Il and e."
<" re h r'artcrs Y IN hr rompIetel,
"""dy for pre- erta+inp. HE the com
'.''''"o i ." voyage. W''i'o no forma'
''""r~' on,c1t OF the 20 ram Of tn"
C mmittPe has hePr given out, the I'm
'.r'2yi~r nrPvpilq that The committe"
hns stil' other busine,s Of i'm ortanrc
fn' which it viii rsk consideration
without doubt the matter Of securing
nitrate will be one Of these for Mr.
Waldron has AT his finger ends sta
tistics on the subject cf production
where the lands are fortified and
where they are not. Irrigation cost
and comparison Of pro 'uct ons on ir
ri@ated and unirrigatrd lands Is an
other subject with which DO is perfect
" familiar.
At the lrbor bureau Of the 1850 ia
ton Yesterday II was levied that the
labor question would receive more than
incidental attention and that no o'her
source than Porto Rico would be con
sidnred.
On the subject of the committee =
trip E. d. Tennev, president Of the
Planters Association is quoted ag
saving:
"YOu are aware that the beet sugar
men and the Louisiana planters are
presenting figures on the cost of pro,
duction to the food administration
and this mission from Hawaii is going
to present data on the cost Of tho
1918 crop, or as nearly as this can be
arrived at, to the food administration
for their consideration when arriving
al a decision on the future price to be
fixed for sugar"
In May and early June the beet
sugar men presented figures on cost
to the food administration and Oscar
s. Strauss was appointed to investi-
gate. The beet sugar men were to have
mot the latter part of June but were
advised not to, they indefinitely post
poned meeting and the "Sugar Corpor.
atom plan WAS announced this month
which is to pay higher price for beet
sugar and other high cost sugar. -
Louisiana sent delegates in June to
take up the matter and Cuba has repre-.
seutation prepared as to the need Of
a higher price on the next crop.