when it was 56,897. Forty years earlier it was 
130,313. After 1872 the censuses registered the 
population of the Islands as follows: 1878, 
57,985; 1881, 80,578; 1890, 89,990; 1896, 
109,020; 1900, 154,001; 1910, 191,909; 1920, 
255,912. 
Population, 1920, by islands: Hawaii, 64,895; 
Maui, 36,080; Oahu, 123,496; Kauai, 29,247; 
Molokai, 1,784; Niihau, 191; Lanai, 185; Ka- 
hoolawe, 3; Midway, 31. 
Nationalities or races are represented in the 
Territory’s population as follows: Japanese, 109,- 
274; Portuguese, 27,002; Hawaiian, 23,723; 
Chinese, 23,507; Caucasian, 22,138; Filipino, 
21,031; Caucasian-Hawaiian, 11,072; Asiatic- 
Hawaiian, 6,955; Porto Rican, 5,604; Korean, 
4,950; Negro, 348; all others, 310. Total, 
255,912. 
Honolulu, the city proper, contains about tw r o- 
thirds of the population of the Island of Oahu, or 
83,327. This does not include United States mili¬ 
tary and naval forces, which, for all Oahu, number 
about 15,000 officers and men. 
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL 
Despite general business depression throughout 
the world, reports for the twelve months ending 
June 30, 1921, show a good year for Hawaii. 
Sugar and pineapples are the two main food 
crops of the Territory. The sugar yield was 
583,894 tons. The pineapple output amounted to 
5,500,000 cases. 
Exports for the year ending March 31, 1921, 
were valued at $180,720,242. Imports for the 
same period had a value of $90,301,260. 
Imports from the United States mainland 
totaled $77,739,381; from foreign countries, $12,- 
561,879. 
Exports to the United States mainland:—$177,- 
173,234; to foreign countries, $3,547,008. 
The gross tonnage of all vessels arriving at ports 
of the Territory during the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1921, was 6,088,689. This represents 
an increase of 657,713 tons over the year preced¬ 
ing. 
That the trade of the Pacific is rapidly ad¬ 
vancing is shown by the latest customs reports. 
Customs receipts for the fiscal year were $1,426,- 
716, an increase of $254,322 over the year pre¬ 
vious. 
Federal internal revenue receipts amounted to 
$20,676,778, almost doubling the figures for the 
previous year, which were the greatest in the his¬ 
tory of the local office. 
The value of real and personal property in Ha¬ 
waii Territory, as shown by reports of the tax 
assessor, is $286,557,532 (about half a million 
less than last year). Values, according to assess- 
inents, have more than doubled in the last twelve 
years. 
Twenty years ago assessments of real and per¬ 
sonal property amounted to $121,172,928. 
Though banking deposits decreased $1,600,000 
during the year, savings deposits show an increase 
of $2,800,000. Among people of the Hawaiian 
race the year shows an increase in savings accounts 
from 9,819 to 13,082. 
Some 900 domestic corporations have an aggre¬ 
gate capital of close on $200,000,000. There are 
27 banks now operating in the Territory. Less 
than a third of this number were doing business 
when the Islands became an American unit in 
1900. 
United States customs and internal revenue re¬ 
ceipts from Ilawai for the fiscal year ending June 
30, 1921, amounted to considerably more than a 
third of such receipts for the preceding twenty 
years. Nearly eighty millions of dollars have been 
collected by the federal government in customs 
and internal revenue. 
Hawaii’s exports to the United States main¬ 
land are made up of the following items, valua¬ 
tions being taken from the 1920 report, which 
registers about $13,000,000 more than the 1921 
report: 
Raw^ sugar, $154,550,205; refined sugar, $4,- 
162,032; molasses and syrup $665,812—a total of 
$159,378,049 for sugar. 
Canned pineapples, $29,176,104. 
Coffee, $476,033; hides, etc., $297,671; fish 
$219,492; bananas, $176,020; raw wool, $136,- 
396; honey, $112,161; rice, $111,544; fruits and 
nuts (exclusive of bananas and canned pineap¬ 
ples), $101,205; vegetables, $54,476; pineapple 
juice, $45,197; fibers, $39,381; breadstuff's (ex¬ 
clusive of rice), $26,224; wood and manufac¬ 
tures of, $25,801; musical instruments (the uku¬ 
lele), $22,458; meat and dairy products (tallow), 
$22,436; animals, $12,740; chemicals, $12,052; 
beeswax, $10,807; paper and manufactures of, 
$5,690; straw and palm-leaf manufactures, 
$3,566; bones, hoofs, horns, etc., $3,143; all 
other items, $65,126. 
Last year’s imports from the States showed an 
increase of $3,686,928 over the previous year, 
while figures for 1920 showed an increase of $24,- 
068,584 over the 1919 returns. 
In the middle of the last century not a few 
California pioneers sent their children to Hono¬ 
lulu to he educated. 
Punahou School (Oahu College) is closely asso¬ 
ciated with the history and progress of the Isl¬ 
ands. It was founded in 1841 for the children 
of the mission, receiving its charter as Oahu Col¬ 
lege in 1853. The land was presented to Rev. 
Hiram Bingham by Governor Bold, in 1829. The 
first teachers were Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Dole 
and Miss Marcia Smith. Punahou School now in¬ 
cludes the elementary school, junior academy and 
academy. Among Punahou’s alumni are many 
prominent citizens, professional men, government 
officials, community leaders. 
With the opening, of the fall term of 1920 the 
College of Hawaii became the University of ILa- 
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