Boom In Hawaiian Tourism.
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Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Honolulu, Jan. 10.
TOURIST traffic to the Hawaiian Islands is booming so much that it has now become the territory’s third “industry”.
The very efficient Hawaii Tourist Bureau, a non-profit organisation, sup ported along the same lines as the Aus tralian National Travel Association, re ports that 53,478 tourists visited the isles during 1937. This does not include the 32,000 “one day” tourists.who came ashore from trans-Pacific liners remain ing in port for the day only.
This great influx of visitors, it is estimated, is responsible for the dis tribution of something like 10,000,000 dollars in cash.
The boom is reflected in local inter island air travel by the Inter Island Company’s amphibians, which are oper ated with more safety than any other airline under the Stars and Stripes. On January 2, no less than 167 passengers were lifted.
Mr. H. G. R. McAlpine, of Otago, New Zealand, has been selected by the British Colonial Office, London, to join the Colonial Service. He has been al located for duty in Fiji.