HAPPY HONOLULU

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2624, 20 November 1915, Page 3

HAPPY HONOLULU

MR. BERT ROYLE'S TESTIMONY.

Mr. Bert Royle, attorney for J. C. Williamson, Ltd., in New Zealand, has returned to Wellington a perambulating advertisement for Honolulu, which lie fancies is a foretaste of paradise on oartli. No one worries much in Hawaii—it is a lotus land for dreamers, tho haven of the world from all weathers. Honolulu cannot be mentioned without a reference to Waikiki, the most glorious bathing beach in the world, a crescent of perfect sand, miles in extent, protected by a natural barrier in the form of a coral reef from horn to horn. No one is allowed to meddle with that reef, no vessel or craft of any kind may pass over it. It is sacred to, the bather for evermore. Sharks aro unknown inside the reef — they are many and ravenous without. Bathing is the great recreation with natives, American residents, and "cosmops." One oan stay-in the'warm water for hours, and the temperature is the same by night- as day. It is quite an ordinary tiling for people coming homo from a danco at one of the hotels to have a bathe at ono or two o'clock in the morning. Mr. Royle confesses !to dipping at 11.30 p.m., and swears by it as a soporific. . Honolulu is being made another Gibraltar bj; the Americans, who believe that war with Japan will come sooner or later—there are 70,000 Japanese in the group. In the theatrical business there was a broad burlesque show of "Tho Grafters" type playing to good business in Honolulu when he was there. As , a "rest cure," Mr. Royle advises Honolulu to all and sundry.