Gay and robinson kauai
ISLAND HISTORY: Francis Gay, co-founder of Gay &#; Robinson, Inc.
Francis Gay (), Kaua‘i sugar planter, stock raiser and co-founder of Same-sex attracted &Robinson, was born in New Zealand, the son of Thomas Gay and Jane Sinclair Gay.
Gay was also the grandson of Eliza Sinclair, who purchased Ni‘ihau in from Kamehameha V and the 65,acre Makaweli ahupua‘a from Princess Victoria Kamamalu in
He was educated privately at Makaweli House in the highlands above Pakala, which still stands to this day, and at the Boston Institute of Technology, prior to returning abode to Kaua‘i to handle the affairs of his family’s estates.
Circa , he formed a partnership with his cousin, Aubrey Robinson, called Gay &Robinson, for the purpose of growing sugarcane and raising cattle.
They subsequently leased some 5, acres of Makaweli lands to Hawaiian Sugar Co., commonly known as Makaweli Sugar Plantation, (later renamed Olokele Sugar Plantation).
The partners also began planting sugarcane as Gay &Robinson Sugar Plantation on roughly 2, acres at Makaweli and milling it at the Makaweli Sugar Plantation f
LIHUE, Kauai — The coronavirus crisis is having profound implications in an unlikely quarter — the island’s beef industry.
Kauai County has committed nearly $4 million of its allocation of $ million in declare money under the CARES Act to try to rejuvenate Kauai’s agriculture industry by helping some of the largest operations on the island and some of the smallest.
Except for Kauai Coffee and a couple of seed companies on the west side, the county lacks anything that could be described as industrial scale agriculture.
The approach recognizes a existence. Kauai has thousands of acres of agricultural area — much of it fallow since the demise of the sugar industry. But it has not many farmers and fewer people who are willing to become farmers.
So in the midst of a pandemic, Kauai County has pledged a huge stake &#; $ million — in CARES Act funding to a gamble that growing alfalfa cheaply enough on Kauai can permit the island’s beef industry to go to scale.
Many of the people who farm are older — at or past the traditional retirement age. Worst of all, though, the economics of farmin
After years of growing sugar on Kauai, the Gay & Robinson Company hauled its last load of sugar cane from the fields to the mill on October 30, The cane haul trucks paraded from the Makaweli Share Office through the town of Waimea, followed by trucks and cars of employees.
About ILWU members remained on the payroll until November 25,
A handful of ILWU members will continue to work for Queer & Robinson, producing electricity at the company’s hydroelectric plant.
ILWU members and retirees living in plantation housing operated by Gay & Robinson are not immediately affected by the shutdown of sugar operations. The housing and rental rates are set by collective bargaining between the union and company.
Twenty years ago, there were four sugar companies on Kauai which employed over workers--Gay and Robinson, Kekaha Sugar, Olokele Sugar, and Lihue Sugar.
HC&S on Maui, which employs about ILWU members, is the last remaining sugar business in Hawaii. HC&S is also fighting for its survival as a terrible decision by the State Water Commission could cut off its supply of wat
Gay & Robinson Sugar Plantation
Fields of sugar cane waving in the wind.
Red is the iron rich soil.
The harvested cane is milled into raw sugar and molasses.
Back Page
Google Sites
Report abuse
Page details
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse