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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.

Pan Pacific Press, "a pseudo news and publicity bureau," was a subsidiary of a Bowman, Deute, Cummings (1932-1938), an advertising agency, which became Bowman, Holst, Macfarlane, Richardson (1939-1944). The agency handled many of the major Hawaii accounts including Matson, Hawaii Tourist Bureau, and the Hawaii Sugar Planters Association. According to Werner Stoy "the Press' job was to keep Hawaii in the public eye." During World War II they "switched to war related advertising."

On February 28, 1911, J.R. No. 1 was approved. It provided tor the establishment ot a commission of rive, one from each county, to report to the 1913 Legislature on plans for an exbibit at the Panama-Pacific International 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. Subcommittees 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 committe 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 subcommittees 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 Hawaiʻi's exhibit at the Exposition and making a special appropriation for the construction of a building or buildings to house the exhibit (or the leasing of suitable space) and for the expenses or instalation and maintenance. $100,000 was appropriated from the general revenue in the Treasury and placed under the Secretary or Hawaiʻi 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 or five men to collect a suitable agricultural, industrial, educational and aesthetic exhibit on behalf of Hawaiʻi, cause the erection of 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 sa1ary, but only travel and living expenses. These were to be paid out of the fund after sumission or vouchers approved by the Auditor, and the total was not to exceed $4,000. The second Commission was composed of Chairman B. P. Wood, C.
E. Wright, John Hughes, John H. Wise., 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. Rivenburgh on July 23, 1914. On January 5, 1915, Wood went to San Francisco as resident commissioner and stayed throughout the run or the exposition which opened Febroary 20, 1915.

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.

The Patient Rights and Responsibilities Task Force was created by Act 178 of the Hawaii State Legislature, 1998 to review legislation that “provided protection of patient rights and responsibilities in regards to health care, especially managed care” (Act 178, 1998, § 5). The Task Force was convened and chaired by the Insurance Commissioner. The Task Force was comprised of 12-20 members from the specific organizations including: the Department of Health; the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; the Hawaii Medical Association; the Hawaii Coalition for Health; the American Association of Retired Persons; the Hawaii Business Health Council; the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii; a health insurance company providing accident and sickness policies under Article 10A of Chapter 431, Hawaii Revised Statues; a health maintenance organization holding a certificate of authority under Chapter 432D, Hawaii Revised Statues; a mutual benefit society providing health insurance under Chapter 432, Hawaii Revised Statues, an organization representing nurses; and a hospital or organization representing hospitals. The Task Force submitted its findings as reports to the Legislature in both 1999 and 2000.

The Task Force’s last meeting was scheduled for January of 2006. No records exist for that meeting or any later meetings. The Task Force was designed to be terminated by the Insurance Commissioner upon the completion of its tasks set forth by Act 178 of the Hawaii Legislature, 1998.

Peter Allan Brinsmade was born in Hallowell, Maine on April 1, 1804. He graduated from Bowdoin College and did post-graduate studies at Andover Theology Seminar and Yale Divinity School. On July 25, 1833, arrived in Honolulu with William Ladd and William Hooper, the establish a mercantile trading house in Honolulu. Organized firm Brinsmade, Ladd & Hooper, later known as Ladd & Company. In 1835, with partners, leased land from King at Koloa, Kaua‘i for raising sugar cane. In 1837, went to Europe, sold lease of land holdings to Belgian stock company (Belgian Contract), took his pay in shares, made King Kamehameha III also large stockholder. In 1846, Ladd & Company went bankrupt. He returned to the United States and died on October 6, 1859 in Lowell, Massachusetts.

1945-1949. Honolulu, Oahu. Partnership Murray Befeler and Werner Stoy
1949-1968. Honolulu, Oahu. Partnership Murray Befeler and George Bacon.
1968-1977. Honolulu, Oahu. George Bacon