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Midpacific Volume07 Issue2.Pdf 1113RUARY, 1914. PRICE, 25 CENTS A COPY $2.00 A YEAR OrritiCTED 377ALEXANDER HMLTN CLOSED DU 620 .M5 irreilteia rAltd ritt 66 (Mt aaaaa • • lF • • • • • • • • 4 144 • 4. 4. 4. • "41.+SAMMISINVSAI 41 The glid-PacificMagazine CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD HOWARD M. BALLOU, Associate Editor VOLUME VII NUMBER 2 CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1914. • . Our Art Gallery • acifi c - - - - 117 la • Carnival Times in the Mid-P ifi • IN By Geo. F. Henshall Tramping in New Zealand - - - - - 125 By 0. C. Witness Round About Hilo - - - - - - - 131 By Henry Walsworth Kinney A Day on the Panama Ditch - - - - 137 By George B. Thayer The Sugar Industry in Hawaii - - - - 143 By Royal D. Mead A Garden Island River - - - - - - 149 By J. M. Lydgate A Story of Old Nauru - - - - - - 155 By Philip A. Delaporte Furnishing the Hawaiian Grass House — 161 From the Memoirs of The Bishop Museum A Sierra Club Outing - - - - - - 167 By Mary Randall Parsons Australia for the Tourist. - - - - - 173 By Alice Hunt Through Haleakala Afoot - - - - - 179 By Sam R. Dawdle On a Japanese Steamship - - - - 185 By Hugh M. Polwarth Market Day in the Philippines - - - 191 By John R. Arnold Hawaii—A Poem - - - - - - 196 • • By Eleanor Rivenburg • . Guide Book and Encyclopedia of Hawaii and the Pacific. The Mid-Pacific Magazine Published by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Honolulu, T. H. Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. Yearly subscriptions in the United States and possessions, $2.00 in advance. Canada and Mexico, $2.50. For all foreign countries, $3.00. Single copies, 25c. Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Ft2stoffice. 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