PACIFIC RELATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1926, Page 1

PACIFIC RELATIONS

WORLD-WIDE ORGANISATION.

CHRISTCHURCH. -March 18

“The Institute, of Pacific Relations,” was the title of an interesting address given by Professor J. B. Condlilfe. ProjVjssor of Economies at Canterbury College at St. Paul’s Schoolroom last evening before a fair .atteiudance. Professor Comlliffc (inscribed the Institute as tins outcome' -of tho, PanPacific Conference held at Honolulu. Its activities were now world-wide, and the big questions it interested itself in were of national and international importance. Sucli problems as those of immigration, industrial development of tho Far East, the present position in China, and general problems of international, moment came within its .scojie. Tho Institute was a permanent organisation, and held conferences at intervals. In America it interested most of the lending academic .men in the country. Professor Ray Lyman Wilbur. of Stanford Junior University, was. the present president, and there were numerous distinguished men connected with its activities in the States. Tho Director of Research in America was tho well-known economist, Jeremiah AY. Jenlcs. Spanking of Japan, fhs lsesam' iiaia the organisation was just as strong there. Tt. was under the patronage of Prince Tokugawa. President of tho House of Peers, and had for its president, the great Liberal Leader, Sliibusawa. Tn Chinese Universities there were one hundred study circles, and the movement was having its effect there. Professor Condlilfe said that tho organising secretary would arrive aboutthe end of June to establish branches of the Institute in Australia and New Zealand. The Institute had arranged for a conference every two years, and the next one would take place in Japan.