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fuel for the sugar factory, and finds a profit of about $6.50 per 

 ton of megass converted into paper. It is premised that there 

 should be a local demand for the unbleached wrapping and pack- 

 ing papers contemplated to be produced. Hawaii imports about 

 a quarter of a million dollars' worth of paper not specified in the 

 more expensive classes each year from the mainland, and prob- 

 ably a large portion of this "all other" item consists of the un- 

 bleached qualities in question. With a development of miscel- 

 laneous fruits trade, no doubt the demand for packing" papers 

 would greatly increase. 



Last year Hawaii shipped to the U. S. mainland canned pine- 

 apples to the value of $4,054,711 and pineapple juice to the value 

 of $106,510. In the same period its exports to foreign countries 

 of all kinds amounted to $989,730, as compared with $532,666 

 in 1912, or an increase of nearly 86 per cent., much of which is 

 due no doubt to the pineapple industry. To the United States 

 the shipments of canned pines have nearly doubled in the past 

 two vears. 



Rubber Day at the rubber and tropical products exhibitions in 

 London has been fixed for June 24. Prince Arthur of Connaught 

 will open the exhibitions, of which King George is the patron, 

 and the Right Hon. Lewis Harcourt, M. P., secretary of state 

 for the colonies, will deliver an address on the occasion. Nothing 

 appears to be doing toward having Hawaii represented with its 

 rubber and other tropical products in these exhibitions. 



Entomologist Ehrhorn, in his report for February, relates a 

 highly humorous incident occurring in the inspection of packages 

 from Japan. 



Official reports from the State of New York indicate that the 

 regulation of dairies there, with regard both to tuberculosis con- 

 trol and general sanitation, is far behind the conditions achieved 

 on this island of Oahu through the cooperation of the territorial 

 and the municipal authorities. If Dr. Norgaard has his way. the 

 conditions on all the islands will ere long equal those on Oahu. 



