AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) FLIGHT TO KGROPE BARRED. OTTAWA, July 20. A message from Toronto states : Hon W. Finlayson, .Minister of Forests for Ontario Province, lias announced tonight that the Government have refused permission for Captains Maxwell and 'fully, who are employed on aeroplane patrol work, to attempt a flight to London in the August-Septcnitfer •season, as the fire menace is then atits height. PACIFIC CONFERENCE. HONOLULU. July 26. At the Pacific Relations Conference, a searching discussion into missions in the Orient resulted from a declaration of AlrT. Koo. a noted Y.M.C.A. worker of China, that too many of the Missionaries had a patronising attitude towards the Chinese. Air Koo declared that the principal objections of the Chinese to the missionaries were, first because mission work was mixed with foreign interests. Second, the Chinese Communists were -antiChristian. and were against all religion. Third. Nationalists held that missionaries promulgated a form of superstition and oppression. Fourth, many Chinese said that missionaries did not practice what they preached. Air Tvo > added that missionaries must adopt an attitude of searching for truth, rather than assuming that they already possessed all truth.

Professor Francisco Beniti. Dean of the College of Education at the University of the Philippines, said that Christianity could not hold the voung_ er Filipinos unless it identified itself with the Filipino ideals and aspirations. HOXOLULU. July 26. Local newspapermen with Dean Williams. of the Institute have been appointed as a committee to prepare for the calling of a Pan-Pacific Xewspaper Congress at Honolulu in 1928. to which Australia and Xew Zealand will he invited. 'Pile first task will be to investigate now sources and methods of gathering and distributing news in the Pacific area, including Australia and Xew Zealand.