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On February 28, 1911, J .R. No. 1 was approved. It provided tor the establishment of a commission or five, one from each county, to report to the 1913 Legislature on plans for an exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Intemational Exposition to be held at San Francisco in celebration or the opening of the Panama Canal. The Chairman was H. P. Wood and members as follows: John A. Hughes, Oahu; John M. Lydgate, Kauai; J .N.S. Williams, Maui; and Charles E. Wright, Hawaii. Sub-committees were appointed to study education, agriculture, forestry, commerce, manufactures, immigration and home building, transportation, irrigation, ethnology, climatology, botany, marine biology, geology, and history. Albert P. Taylor of the Advertiser was appointed as secretary. Simultaneously, a site committee was formed in San Francisco composed of Chairman William G. Irwin, Captain William Matson, Wallace Alexander, George Rolph and E. M. Walsh. Reports from the various sub­ committees in October led to the decision to ask for Federal matching funds. On March 29, 1912, the Chamber of Commerce moved to ask the Governor for $5,000 from his Contingent Fund for current expenses of the Fair Commission. On June 10, 1912, the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association made $10,000 available to the Commission and plans were formulated to ask the next Legislature for $150,000.

The 1913 Legislature passed Act 154, which provided for Hawaii's exhibit at the Exposition and making a special appropriation for the construction or a build­ing or buildings to house the exhibit ( or the leasing of suitable space) and for the expenses of installation and maintenance. $1001000 was appropriated from the general revenue in the Treasury and placed under the Secretary of Hawaii acting with advice and assistance from the Commission. Proceeds from sales were to be government realizations and unsold property was to remain with the Territory under the Secretary. The Governor authorized the appointment or a Commission of five men to collect a suitable agricultural, industrial, educational and aesthetic exhibit on behalf of Hawaii, cause the erection or suitable buildings, install the exhibit and maintain it, and make suitable disposition of it at the conclusion of the ex­position. The 1915 Legislature amended this by stating that members were not to receive a salary but only travel and living expenses. These were to be paid out of the fund after submission of vouchers approved by the Auditor, and the total was not to exceed $4,000. The second Commission was composed of Chairman H.P. Wood, C. E. Wright, John Hughes, John H. Wise, and J.N.S. Williams (Vice-chairman) and J.H. Wise was appointed Secretary. Wright resigned and was replaced by John Effinger on May 21, 1914; Hughes resigned and was replaced by Bertram C. Rivenburg on July 23, 1914. On January 5, 1915, Wood went to San Francisco as resident commissioner and stayed throughout the run of the exposition which opened February 20, 1915.

Pacific Chemical and Fertilizer Co. started corporate life as the North Pacific Phosphate and Fertilizer Co. in 1890, changed its name in 1894 to Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Co., and
finally to Pacific Chemical and Fertilizer Co. in 1944. Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Co. (1894-1944) bought out Hawaiian Fertilizer Co. in 1922 and incorporated its own northern
California operations as Pacific Guano Co. in 1935. The detailed corporate history follows:

1890-Chartered, May 23, for 50 years, as North Pacific Phosphate and Fertilizer Co. with headquarters at Honolulu, mining guano on Layson Island on a lease from the Hawaiian
government to sell to the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands markets.

1894-Reorganized as Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Co. to manufacture fertilizer at Honolulu. --Established first plant for mixing fertilizer in Kalihi.

1897-Established second plant at Iwilei.

1905-Purchased N. Ohlandt Co., a fertilizer factory, at San Francisco in order to expand sales to the northern California market, April 10.

1907-Established new factory in West Berkeley, Calif., January. --Purchased half interest in a superphosphate factory at Los Angeles owned by Stauffer Chemical Co. in order to obtain a supply of phosphates for Hawaiian market; jointly incorporated new company as Union Superphosphate Co., February 27.

1912-Leased whole plant and property of Union Phosphate Co. for five years, October 1.

1922-Purchased Hawaiian Fertilizer Co. of Honolulu, PG&F's major Hawaiian islands manufacturing competitor, March 22; acquired Geo. H. Croley Co. of San Francisco in deal with
Hawaiian Fertilizer. Croley manufactured poultry feed.

1925-Established new Iwilei plant, December.

1927-Established Hilo factory, October.

1931-Established Kahului, Maui plant, May 1.

1933-Closed Geo. H. Croley Co., California, previously owned by Hawaiian Fertilizer Co.

1935-Sold Union Superphosphate Co. back to Stauffer Chemical Co. in Los Angeles; incorporated northern California manufacturing operations as Pacific Guano Co., a wholly
owned subsidiary, June 30, under California law.

1944-Renamed company Pacific Chemical and Fertilizer Co., with manufacturing center and headquarters at Honolulu; amended Articles of Association to engage in manufacture of
phosphates and fertilizers, April 30.

Sources: Subject Catalogue of Hawaii State Archives under North Pacific Phosphate and Fertilizer Co., Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Co., and Hawaiian Fertilizer Co.; items in collection of Pacific Chemical and Fertilizer Co.

1852 The youngest of 3 sons born to Captain John Kellett, harbor pilot at Hanalei, Kauai. Attended St. Alban's School (now ‘Iolani School) in Honolulu. Accompanied the Rev. Edmund Ibbotson to England for further education.
1868 Returned to Honolulu. Married Helen Marboe, whose sister was the wife of Henry Smith, Clerk of First Circuit Court. employed by Theo H. Davies and Company for 40 years. Served as District Magistrate for Koolaupoko, Oahu.
1893 March 18 Mrs. Helen Marble Kellett died at the age of 39.
1917 March 31 died at the age of 65 in Honolulu.

A native of Plymouth, Massachusetts, arrived in Honolulu on ship "Margaret" in 1793. Holmes was Governor of Oahu. Married Princess Mahi, daughter of Oahu chief. Had five daughters.

The Officer of Customs, entitled the Harbor Master, kept the earliest records of shipping and harbor affairs from 1841 to 1845 under the Treasury Board in the Ministry of the Interior. It was the duty of the Harbor Master to grant permission to vessels to land their cargo, which was originally allowed free. In January of 1843, a 5% duty on imported goods was imposed, (raised to 10% in 1860 and to 25% in 1876). which made it necessary to establish a Customs House and to hire a Collector. The offices of Harbor Master and Collector were combined and William Paty was appointed to the position.

The office was established in 1959 under the Reorganization Act of 1959, Act 1, Second Special Session.

The Clerk of the Senate is the custodian of the records of the Senate.