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The Planters Labor and Supply Company



 * Charter granted by William Nevins Armstrong as Secretary of the Interior
 * Edward P. Adams (Kalakaua's privy council) Born and raised in Maine, had a son  John Coit Adams  born in Honolulu July 17, 1867 He was an American Consul.  E.P. married Miss Caroline Wright, who died in Honolulu. He spent his final days in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He waa an uncle of Anna Prentice Cate Dole.
 * Kilauea Plantation
 * Samuel T. Alexander (Alexander & Baldwin)
 * William H. Bailey (Hawaii) (1843–1910), Wailuku Sugar Company, son of missionary Edward Bailey
 * Married Anna Hobron Bailey, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hobron; see Kahului Railroad. Hobron's other daughter Mary wed William Owen Smith, also a member of the Committee of Safety (Hawaii)
 * William G. Irwin
 * Alfred S. Hartwell
 * John H. Paty
 * Zephaniah Swift Spalding
 * Zephaniah Swift Spalding


 * Walter M. Giffard was a member

1856 Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society (RHAS)

 * According to MacLennan, created in 1856 by Kamehameha IV (she only says "Kamehameha" without saying which one)
 * Kuykendall says "the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society was formally organized on August 13, 1850", which would have been Kamehameha III - Both MacLennan's and Kuykendall's source was the Aug. 17, 24, 1850; RHAS Transactions, Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 10-22.


 * Robert Crichton Wyllie was a founding member
 * Planters were Hawaiian, European, and American, and they laid a foundation for government policy geared towards the sugar industry. Planters began pushing for a reciprocity treaty. Began pushing the government to remove obstacles for exporting. The government improved the infrastructure to better facilitate the transport of product from the field to the ports. Trade policy with the US was honed.
 * Planters were Hawaiian, European, and American, and they laid a foundation for government policy geared towards the sugar industry. Planters began pushing for a reciprocity treaty. Began pushing the government to remove obstacles for exporting. The government improved the infrastructure to better facilitate the transport of product from the field to the ports. Trade policy with the US was honed.
 * Planters were Hawaiian, European, and American, and they laid a foundation for government policy geared towards the sugar industry. Planters began pushing for a reciprocity treaty. Began pushing the government to remove obstacles for exporting. The government improved the infrastructure to better facilitate the transport of product from the field to the ports. Trade policy with the US was honed.


 * Samuel Northrup Castle joins with Amos Starr Cooke, worked with Wyllie to craft government policy around the sugar industry.




 * Immigration policies; importation of Chinese labor - managed by both government and private interests
 * The Hawaiian population was rapidly declining