The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-11-17

department, 10 the bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
at Washington, d. c., reads in part:
Our excursion first landed at Hilo
on the Island of Hawaii, the largest of
the group We made a trip by auto
mobile from Hilo to the volcano OF
kilauea and some of our party were
entertained at lunch by the Hilo
Board of Trade. The balance had
lunch at the Hilo Yacht Club where
Hilo business men emphasized the
need for direct steamship service to
Hilo.
Visit to Maui
"On the second day the Island of
Maui was visited, landing being made
at Kahului with a drive to the county
seat at Waikiki for lunch. This Is
land is intensively cultivated in its
central portion and sugar and pine
apple plantations are extensive. 1t
has a system of fine roads and many
beautiful homes are in evidence. Large
sugar mills and pineapple canneries
are located on this Island.
"The Island of Maui is much more
developed than is Hawaii and has
more of the appearance of Southern
California. There is still some land
on which more pineapples might be
grown and on the slopes of the great
extinct volcano, Haleakala, such crops
as potatoes and corn are grown and
cattle are p%astured. The wide valley
between the two high peaks of the is
lands, lays claim to being the richest
valley of its size in the world. All of
the people of the island are well hous-
ed, and there are many fine houses
through the country districts.
Island characteristics
There is a wide diversity in the
characteristics of the various Islands
we visited. The Island of Hawaii,
which has a larger area han all the
other Islands combined, and is, APP
proXimately the size of the State of
Connecticut, is less developed than
any of the other principal Islands and
has great possibilities.
ut is a country of dense tropical
growth in the main, having heavy
rainfall on the northerly and easterly
slopes, and the temperature ranges
from quite warm in the lower attitudes
along the shore, to a very pleasant
and mild temperature at an altitude
of 1000 feet at the Volcano House.
"The Island of Oahu, on which is
located the city of Honolulu, is per-
haps the most developed of any of the
Islands, and of course has a greater
population than all the other Islands
combined. There is still considerable
land, however, which can be develop
ed for p~ineapples and perhaps other
crops.
when it is realized that the eX-
ports of the Islands aggregated APP
proXimately 1925, 000, 900 last year for
a population of a quarter of a million,
it can be seer that the average pur-
chasing power of the people of Hawaii
was approximately $500 per capita, or
$500 for an average family. 1t is
doubtful is such another purchasing
power exists in any country. This fact
taken in connection with the fact that
the Islands can be developed to a far
greater eXtent than they are at pres
ent, gives a slight idea of the posi-
bilities which are presented in con-
nection with the new steamship ser
vice between Southern California and
the Hawaiian Islands.
Greater incomes Needed
at is essential to the welfare Of the
Islands themselves that a greater
diversity of income should be develop
ed, for when the price of sugar slumps,
or if any adversely should strike the
pineapple industry, hard times doubt
less would ensue which would be
obviated by a greater development Of
resources"
The report also comments on the
serious labor problems in the Islands
at the present times and refers to the
inability of pineapple growers on the
Island of Maui to increase their out
put until more labor is available.
THE commercial interests u the
Islands have made an appeal TO con-
gress to allow the restricted immigra-
ton of Chinese to the Islands, for the
purpose of providing a dependable
labor supply and to balance the large
preponderance of Japanese now in the
Islands. The Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce has endorsed this idea,
the report continued.
"The Hawaiian Islands are not get.
ting as much congressional aid as
they are entitled to. Situated in mid,
Pacific, they are not only tremendous.
ly valuable from an economic stand.
point, but also from the standpoint OF
military strategy. AS a territory they
have not the powers of a state and
are limited even in the expenditure
of their WI resources.
Harbor Work Needed
"Harbor improvements are greatly
needed, especially on the Islands OF
Maui and Hawaii and these should
have liberal congressional aid"
A report, adopted by an excursion
list committee aboard the S. S. City
of Los Angeles or her return trip, is
also included in the documents sent
to Judge Case. Excerpts declare:
The vessel Getty of Los Angeles)
anchored in the harbor OF Kahului
about ten o'clock in the morning and
our party was taken ashore in light
ers, welcomed by the Maui Chamber
of Commerce, taken in autos for q
tour of the plantations, lunched a
the Grand Hotel, taken to visit a
pineapple cannery in operation, anC
returned to the polo grounds where
match was played for our particular