Pau Hana

Looking Back Through The Maui News

100 Years Ago

1916 – The live stock exhibit at the Maui County Fair next fall is going to be one of the surprises of the big event except to those who have been closely in touch with what has been going on in this line on Maui for the past several years. In the beef cattle class it is quite certain that all of the principal ranches of Maui will have some fine specimens to show. Hogs will also be a feature. Horses will doubtless form an interesting class. The recently organized poultry association is also planning to show what Maui can do in the way of fine fowls.

75 Years Ago

1941 – Sales of 45 out of 50 new 1941 Kelvinator refrigerators within ten days’ time as a result of good store sales promotion work and a full-page advertisement in the Maui News was reported yesterday by C. E. Chatterton, assistant manager of Kahului Store, newly appointed Maui distributors for Kelvinator electrical appliances. The advertisement also mentioned Kelvinator ranges, with the result that a number of people came in to see them. The range and water heater shipment, however, isn’t expected until the latter part of next week, arrival of which will be announced in The Maui News.

50 Years Ago

1966 – The Carthaginian, a 130-foot barkentine which was the whaling ship in the movie “Hawaii,” will be purchased by the Lahaina Restoration Foundation. “The Carthaginian will be converted into a Whaling Ship Museum, which will be one of the major tourist attractions in the Lahaina area,” foundation President Keith B. Tester said.

25 Years Ago

1991 – A strike by Mexican farmworkers ended yesterday when the laborers were allowed to go back to Texas without honoring their four-month contracts. Settlement ended the strike that began Monday but created a worker shortage for Wailuku Agribusiness as pineapple harvest season was beginning.

10 Years Ago

2006 – About 75 Hawaii Army National Guardsmen from Maui were honored as heroes Sunday morning with speeches, music and gifts for their recent service in the Middle East. The Guard’s Freedom Salute Campaign, which began in 2003, recognizes Army National Guard soldiers, their families and others who have supported them at home and abroad.

* “Looking Back Through The Maui News” is a weekly feature compiled by Jill Engledow.

Pau Hana

Looking Back Through The Maui News

100 Years Ago

1916 – A feeling of optimism exists just now in the pineapple district, owing to the prospect of much better prices for the product during the next year. It is reported that a number of recent sales made by local packers have been at a marked advance, and the companies expect the demand to result in still better figures. The growers have been assured of not less than $15 per ton for the present season’s crop.

75 Years Ago

1941 – Opening of an off-duty recreation center for the use of Army and Navy men stationed on Maui and their wives has been set for Saturday by officials of Alexander House Community Association, under whose direction the center will operate. To provide a place for service personnel to change clothes, write letters, read, hold social gatherings and other activities during the time when they are not on duty, the old Scout house in the rear of the Wailuku Recreation Center has been undergoing renovation for the past month.

50 Years Ago

1966 – At a Charter Commission meeting Thursday night, County Chairman Eddie Tam advocated a strong mayor form of government, and said Maui County is “30 years behind other places in planning.” He said with a proper education, and an adequate number of public hearings, he thinks Maui voters would ratify a strong mayor form of government, giving the mayor power to appoint and fire most of his department heads without confirmation of the Council.

25 Years Ago

1991 – It was the first time in 125 years that a Norwegian Ambassador paid a visit to Maui, said Patty Cannon Mazingo, who hosted Ambassador Knut Vollebaek earlier this month. It was a lot more pleasant this time around. The first time an ambassador from Norway needed to come to Maui, it was to investigate complaints of Norwegian workers who had been recruited to work in Hawaii’s sugar plantations in 1881 and found the work conditions less than what had been promised.

10 Years Ago

2006 – Hearing continued assertions that the Wailuku Main Street Association is the target of a “witch hunt” in a dispute over grant money, a Maui County Council committee yesterday recommended funding the organization next year to the tune of $110,000.

* “Looking Back Through The Maui News” is a weekly feature compiled by Jill Engledow.

Pau Hana

Looking Back Through The Maui News

100 Years Ago

1916 – It is probable that within another week the Maui County Fair executive committee will be able to effect an organization and get down to business. Secretary Case, of the Chamber of Commerce, has during the week received the following named members, appointed by as many different organizations: F.G. Krauss, Hawaii Experiment Station; Dr. J.C. Fitzgerald, Board of Agriculture and Forestry; Angus McPhee, Maui Racing Association; James Lindsay, Haiku Farmers’ Association; E.C. Moore, Extension Division of Federal Experiment Station.

75 Years Ago

1941 – Sea Scouts, Boy Scouts and Cubs made their homes in windblown tents on the Maui County Fairgrounds at Kahului early this week as 84 patrols registered for the second Sub-Regional Camporal. More than 750 Scouts were encamped at the fairgrounds Monday and Tuesday for the first two days of the Camporal which ends with the staging of the first Scout swimming meet at the Puunene Athletic Club pool. Many of these camps were set apart from their neighbors by fences made of branches, which suspended signs proclaiming various Scout laws and duties. Some of the campers had erected attractive rustic gateways for their plots.

50 Years Ago

1966 – The Maui Woman’s Club, “concerned for the moral standards of the young people of Maui,” has sent a letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson deploring “salacious literature” available on newsstands and magazine racks, and asking him to use his “position and power” to stop the flow.

25 Years Ago

1991 – Drivers going by the corner of Main and High streets in Wailuku honked as participants in yesterday’s lunch-hour tax rally waved signs against the proposal to give counties authority to charge a 1 percent excise tax. The Chamber of Commerce organized yesterday’s rally as well as a “tea party” at Kahului Harbor on Monday after last week’s news of the House Finance Committee’s approval of the tax measure.

10 Years Ago

2006 – A bright three-quarter moon rose high above the steep slopes of Mount Ball and the Lahainaluna “L” as nearly 3,000 people gathered Saturday evening to celebrate 175 years of history and something even more important-each other. Lahainaluna pride was in full bloom as long-separated classmates – many of them returning after 10, 20, 50 years and even one, 70 years later – hugged each other and talked excitedly at Lahainaluna High School’s athletic field before feasting on luau food, enjoying Hawaiian entertainment and reminiscing about their high school years.

* “Looking Back Through The Maui News” is a weekly feature compiled by Jill Engledow.

Pau Hana

Looking Back Through The Maui News

100 Years Ago

1916 – Plans are now on foot for the annual fancy dress ball of the Maui Racing Association, which will be given probably in early May. The affair is to be made coincident with the first polo contest of the season, which is to be played on the new Keahua field, and will be one of the most important society events of the year. The polo game will be between the Oahu and Maui teams. The local team is already practicing hard and has full confidence of being able to carry off the honors, particularly with the splendid new grounds to practice on.

75 Years Ago

1941 – With more than 400 already booked in two special parties, the SS Hualalai will call at Kahului instead of Lahaina on the first of the two extra Saturday sailings during Easter vacation. The SS Hualalai, leaving Honolulu for Hilo Saturday, April 5, will make the special call at Kahului on the outward voyage. The SS Waialeale, leaving Honolulu on regular schedule Friday, April 4, will make its usual call at Lahaina.

50 Years Ago

1966 – Finishing touches are being put on the six cabins at Waianapanapa State Park, near Hana, and the contract calls for completion by June 7. Two men are clearing the area around the cabins, and surveyors from Honolulu Monday started a week-long study. Although the six one-bedroom, two-bunk cabin structures have been completed, they still have to be painted, furnished and connected to electricity and water. Total cost of the six cabins and three cesspools is $66,578. Each cabin is costing the State $9,799, and each cesspool has a $2,428 price tag.

25 Years Ago

1991 – Mayor Linda Crockett Lingle said yesterday she has ordered the county’s Land Use & Codes Administration to stop processing a grading permit filed by Keola Hana Maui for a golf course planned for Hana. The mayor said such permits cannot be processed while the current countywide moratorium on new golf courses remains in place.

10 Years Ago

2006 – The last of the homeless population at the Kahului breakwater left the site Monday, clearing the way for bulldozers to make some serious headway into cleaning up the mounds of trash and junked cars that have contributed to unsanitary conditions. County officials were pleased that the move went as well as it did and thanked the nearly 140 people who had to relocate for being as cooperative as they were.

* “Looking Back Through The Maui News” is a weekly feature compiled by Jill Engledow.