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Show HHi FOLK ! HUG STATE OF EXTINCT! Governor of -Hula Hula Land Urges Returning Natives to Former Conditions WASHINGTON", Dec. 9. Hawaii had an exceedingly prosperous year, largely large-ly as a result of the high price of sugar. sug-ar. Governor (.'. J. McCarthv announc- ed in his annual report made public here today. Savings bank deposits jumped trC-mendousi trC-mendousi with an increase of approximately ap-proximately "i0 per cent to $15,07.77S. Federal internal revenue receipta 01 I (11 U"? -. J ' u.nrn IfirOFAHl ill his. lory, showing an Increase of more than 10i per cent. Exports and tmpOrta exceeded those of any previous year by almost $30,000,000 with an aggregate aggre-gate of $ lU2.063.-t S 1 . imports amounting amount-ing to $63,283,647 and exports $104,-77!'.S04 $104,-77!'.S04 : proof of the develop ment of the islands' commerce, Governor Gov-ernor McCarthy says the gross tonnage of all vessels arriving wis r.,430,H7t;. an Increase of 1.970,77 tone ( oi LiD INCRE 1SE Kl 1 M E& The revenues of the territory would be greatly increased by the Hawaii rehabilitation re-habilitation bill, now before the i nlt-ed nlt-ed States senate after passage by the house, according to Governor .McCarthy, .McCar-thy, but if defeated, it would be necessary ne-cessary to increase the local ta.e- 1 (no of tho main purposes of tho bill is lo put back on the soil, tho native lia-wallnns lia-wallnns of whom there are now not more than -lu,O00 compared with 400 000 when the islands were discovered dis-covered lv Captain Conk PEOIIjE DYING im I "Tho Hawaiian folic are a lovable people," says Governor McCarthy, "and anything which tho government Of the L'nitcd Stales can do to im-proo im-proo their condition and to prevent extinction, whieh now threatens, should be done without delay. Tho people of Hawaii who favor the rehabilitation re-habilitation act believe that if the Ila-wallans Ila-wallans are taken from th- city tenements tene-ments and put at the same kind of work to which their attceatora were accustomed, (hey will re-develop and increase .us have the Maoris of Nen Zealand." 00 |