In Auto Rental Co., Ltd. v. Lee, 35 Haw. 77 (1939), the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawai i in deciding an action in equity under the Fair Trade Act of Hawai i noted: Equity will intervene to enjoin the actual or threatened interference with property rights or rights of a pecuniary nature where the tortious acts complained of, though not criminal in their nature, constitute a legal wrong such as unfair competition. . . . The rule that a court of equity concerns itself only in the protection of property rights treats any civil right of a pecuniary nature as a property right and the right to acquire property by honest labor or the conduct of a lawful business is as much entitled to protection as the right to guard property already acquired. It is this right that furnishes the basis of the jurisdiction in the ordinary case of unfair competition. Id. at 93.