Honolulu Record, August 19, 1948, vol. 1 no. 2, p. 5
In the program of mechanization, the Hawaiian sugar plantations are giving important place to the mechanical cane cutters. At the executive committee meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association held here late last month, sugar company officials were informed of the Duncan cane cutter which is now being experimented with at the Koloa section of Grove Farm Plantation. While this experiment is going on laborers here on this island are expressing concern over the cutting down of man hours through introduction of machines. If am when the cane cutter is put into widespread use, thousands of laborers who now cut cane with knives will become unemployed or must be placed in some other work. With mechanization being pushed in almost every department, employment opportunities in the sugar plantations are getting increasingly scarce. Two other cutters are now under experiment. One of these is known as the Snowplow cutter which like the Duncan type is usable only on dry land. The other is the Gomez cutter which proved successful at Ewa.