HAWAII PREPARES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 January 1941, Page 6

HAWAII PREPARES

0 augmenting eood suitlv IN CASE WAR CUTS OFF SERVICE. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. r A special message from Honolulu t< ; the “Christian Science Monitor says. that as events add emphasis to Hawaii s ’ ~ place in the defoiwe programme milt- , tary and civilian loaders are paying j increased attention to the I eiiiioi) >. i dependence upon the mainland foi ’ food. Public interest in the problem has. been sllnnilMod by the recent report ( of a special investigatin'..; commincej, appointed by Mayor Charles S C ram-. ■ , of Honolulu. l This committee reported that on Lie ; ; Island of Oahu th' Mml supply was i, sufficient :•> last the civilian j>opul;dio!i k 24 da vs. I Hawaii is an agricultural paradox, p The Llands arc among the world’s . ! greater prooucer. of sugar eane and]; pineapples, but heavy concentration ol ■ capital and hmd in these two produce-. , makes it necessary for the Territory io ( import 70 per cent of its < i supply Hawaii produces 28 per cent of itsd.urv iToducm. 1 per cent of os grams 46 per cent M' vegetables. 34 per ’ cent of its fruits. -H cent of its j meat .and meat produtes 30 per cent j , of its li'b. and 40 per cent <>f its e:;-,.-. i for additional crops. To siiupiime: ’ tni- i--rmid vehnm . , f r.roducTon m ‘m ’’ ' f emergrtiey ! ar.d < i:;. .u r ii.- producers ,-:ui tin-’ r ■ ■ H iwa ' ” oer's have t.-re-.-.ireo a pi an ’-or ee.ougn ' ■ . uihn< : reet fitly in u report i m; <i ■ made H-mmCm Ac.uKnW| ■ i ■ Planter;' A.* j ■ .-■ mm ,i by eo-opi-rative agreciw nt ' s’l.ih ; ' ■■■ i inc :’ ““ ' ' : f,,.- >g,< i«ew i.T<t|s’. bit* t*. cotiM be mm-' : O-, ~ ~m go ;,hlr - • furnish a .. , ■ < <1 s u ’> m d ~ .' j - and K iney ’■< am ’ .. ♦ | < It - . »L'- ‘‘ COULD USE. ALL ISLANDS. ‘ t !; I : Vf I ■■ S f-’i 1 SiH’m ' i :•. CAI TI O’. m pn OG fi AV, M L

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