AMERICAN CARLE MEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CARLE MEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

PACIFIC RELATIONS CONFERENCE HONOLULU, July 1(5.

Australian and New Zealand representatives, arriving to-da.v, completed llie delegations to the Second Institute of Pacific Relations, which was opened with a luncheon hv Mr Frank C. Atherton, the Chairman of the Hawaii Council.

To-day’s session were a preliminary to an important programme, beginning to-morrow with half-hour statements on behalf of each Pacific country re-

presented. It is already predicted that China’s troublous situation will be one of the main topics. There, is a strong Chinese group herc._ They are prepared to speak on hehai'f of the Nationalist movement.

The Chinese Delegation Chairman, David Yui, in the course of a statement, declared tnat the Nationalist movement was steadily sweeping over the whole of China.

Another important topic is expected to be immigration, and the Japanese are prepared with facts concerning population food supply and kindred topics. The Japanese Chairman is Doctor Masataro Sawayanagi. He says the Japanese delegation has no intention of raising the issue of American immigration exclusion clause of 1921, but lie forsees the time when the immigration bars in many countries now existing against the Japanese will be let down, and when a freer immigration will be permitted as a matter of international principle. Both the above Asiatic statements were given outside the institute sessions. Two papers are on to-day’s programme. The first is that of Mr H. Duncan, of Australia, on “ The British Commonwealth of the Pacific.” The second is one by Doctor Peter Buck, the Director of Maori Hygiene in New Zealand, on “The Paces of the Pacific.”

Doctor Wilbur (President of the Stanford University), the Chtirman, spoke on the interpretation of America’s Pacific relations. “ The United States,” he said, “ is conscious of new relations with Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and islands of the Pacific. Australia and New Zealand seem closer to America than ever before. The place they are taking as constituted members of the British Commonwealth of Nations in the life of the Pacific is accepted as the natural growth of their history.” Dr Wilbur, discussing immigration to America, said there should he reason to hope that the quota basis might he extended for all immigrants, including the Asiatics,

A TORNADO. VANCOUVER, July Ifi. Kansas City reports tornadoes killed at least eight and injured one hundred people, besides demolishing or damaging one hundred homes in Kansas State to-day. HEAT WAVE CONTINUES. VANCOUVER, July 10. New York reports a continuous Eastern States heat wave, ten deaths today, making seventy-two in the past five days.