Business transacted by insurance companies in the territory of Hawaii for the year ended December 31, 1923 Kind of insurance Number Kind of insurance Accident, health, automobile, property damage, burglary and theft, liability, surety, plate glass, and workmen's compensation.. Accident, health, automobile, employers' liability, property damage, and workmen's compensation.. Accident, health, automobile, burglary and theft, liability, fidelity and surety, plate glass, property damage, and workmen's compensation. Accident, health, automobile, employers' liability, surety, property damage, and workmen's compensation. Accident, health, automobile, burglary and theft, employers' liability, fidelity and surety, plate glass, property damage, workmen's compensation. Accident, automobile, burglary and theft, employers' liability, property damage, and workmen's compensation. Accident, health, automobile, employ ers' liability, property damage, surety, steam boiler, and workmen's compensation.. Accident, automobile, employers' liability, and property damage. Burglary and theft and fidelity and surety... Fidelity, tornado, and sprinkler leakage. Plate glass. Total. COMMERCE Imports and exports during last 10 years1 During the last fiscal year the shipments of gold and silver coin other than through the mails were: From the United States, $143,420; from foreign countries, nothing; to the United States, $10,000; to foreign countries, $57,940. Potatoes, onions, garlic, etc. Pickles and sauces.. Value of imports from foreign countries, year ending March 31, 1924 Foodstuffs: Shellfish Tea... Beef and veal. Mutton and lamb. Farinaceous substances Eggs in shell.. Condensed and evaporated milk. Butter.. Dried and salt fish. Rice... Rice flour and broken rice. Canned vegetables.. Apples.... 95, 183 Dates and other preserved fruits. 12, 718 67, 995 33, 666 Biscuits 37, 484 Macaroni Dried beans. Prepared or preserved vegetables.. Mushrooms and truffles. Other foodstuffs___ Total foodstuffs.. Coal 16, 386 29, 680 53, 012 Vegetable oils including peanut, rape, olive, soya_ 373, 545 113, 044 50, 216 186, 410 $2, 467, 343 Jute burlap. 252, 118 Customs receipts, fiscal years since organization of Territorial government Sources of customs receipts, year ending June 30, 1924 Arrivals and departures of vessels at ports of Territory of Hawaii during last nine The Hawaii Tourist Bureau, formerly the Hawaiian Promotion Committee, is the official publicity and information organization of the Territory of Hawaii, created to attract travel to Hawaii. It functions as an independent branch of the Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu and is assisted by Territorial appropriation. The committee consists of five members appointed by the president of that body each year, together with one representative from each of the four island counties of the Territory, appointed by the governor. The bureau is now expending approximately $100,000 a year for display advertising in leading magazines, printing, motion pictures, lantern slides, photographs, publicity writing, and its information services. It has a branch office at 557 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, whose manager travels and lectures extensively; an information office in Los Angeles; a part time representative in the Orient, at Shanghai; and its advertising agents, with headquarters at Wellington, New Zealand, and Sydney, Australia, represent its interests in these countries. Through its active publicity and advertising efforts for more than 20 years the bureau has developed an all-year-round flow of visitors to the islands. Many visitors attracted to the islands for a visit have found them so delightful to live in that they have established permanent homes here. Probably the most gratifying result of the bureau's advertising has been the development of the Territory as a summer resort. Time was when travelers considered Hawaii impossible except during the so-called winter months of, say, December, January. February, and March, but by continual emphasis on the fact that the islands are really cooler in summer than most places on the mainland during the same period, and that summer is even more delightful in Hawaii than winter, a stream of visitors has been built up for the mid-year that almost equals that of the midwinter season. No accurate record of the number of tourist visitors to the islands was kept until the last few years. The record as now taken classes as tourists newcomers to the island who stay more than two days. Through passengers who visit about the city during the time their boat is in port are not included in these figures, which are for calendar years, as follows: The Matson Navigation Co. operates on a weekly schedule between San Francisco and Hawaiian Island ports four combination passenger and freight steamers, the Maui, Matsonia, Wilhelmina, and Manoa, with sailings every Wednesday from Honolulu and San Francisco. Direct passenger and freight service between San Francisco and Hilo is furnished by this company with the steamer Enterprise, operating on a four-week schedule. The steamer Lurline operates in a direct passenger and freight service between Seattle and Honolulu, sailing every five weeks. The steamers Manulani, Manukai, Mauna Ala. and Makiki are freighters operating between Pacific coast and Hawaiian Island ports. One of these vessels calls regularly at Puget Sound points and one at Los Angeles. The steamers Makawali, Mahukona, and Makena are in the lumber trade, bringing cargoes of lumber from Puget Sound and returning with sugar to San Francisco. The motor schooner Annie Johnson makes regular trips between San Francisco and the ports of Mahukona, Hawaii, and Hana, Maui. This company has recently announced that it will build a fast passen |