Attracting Tourists to Outer
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Hawaiian Islands.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Honolulu, Feb. 6.
DRASTIC reduction in the steamer rates between Honolulu and the outlying Hawaiian Islands is expected to bring the four main islands closer together and to help put Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai Islands—in addition to Oahu, where Honolulu is situated—on the traveller’s map. The new rates came into effect in January, and the reduc tions average 15 per cent.
The vessels in this Hawaiian inter island service are large modern steamers, offering all the appointments and comforts of trans-oceanic liners,
although the longest passages are just overnight voyages. Hawaii travel exe cutives hope that the reduced steamer fares will encourage visitors to add Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii to their itinerary vocabularies. They declare that tourists who explore the archi pelago beyond Honolulu will have a better idea of the real Hawaii.
Mr. I). C. Chalmers, of Lautoka, re turned to Fiji by the January “Aorangi”.
Mr. A. C. F. Armstrong, an Adminis trative Officer in the Gilbert Islands, arrived in Fiji by the “Aorangi” on January 28. He will be attached to the headquarters of the Western Pacific High Commission at Suva for some time.