AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

FUTURE OF THE POLYNESIAN RACE.. Australian Press Assn.—United Service HONOLULU, Aug. 13. Discussions at the Pan-Pacific Conference have brought out the belief that Australia and New Zealand reflect greater industrial benefits for women than other Pacific countries, especially in working hours. Misses Denton and Leech (Dunedin), replying to Japanese queries about the suffrage, described the English suffrage campaign. Sir Joseph Carruthers (New South Wales), speaking at the Pan-Paoific Union’s luncheon, said that the Polynesian race Was likely to become extinct unless the death rate was reduced and the birth rate was increased. Ho added: “Thank God there are parts, like New Zealand, where there is a definite hope that the native races will be salvaged.’’ TRIBUTES TO CAPTAIN COOK. HONOLULU, Aug. 14. British and American naval authorities conferred aboard H.AI.S. Dunedin, and they delegated the United States warship “Pennsylvania” to lead the Cook Celebration manoeuvres. Three British cruisers will follow the Pennsylvania on Wednesday to Waimoa. Kami Island. The marines and seamen will dedicate the Cook monument. It will be the first time that armed Britisli troops have landed there since Captain Cook did so on January 20th. 1778. The ships proceed thence to Kulekaun, Hawaii, where the captain of each ship will place a wreath on the Cook Monument. Thence they take Isiats to Nafxxnioo, where a bronze tablet is erected to the memory of William Wheatman, the seaman who road the burial service over Cook. The British ships will then return to Honolulu, where a huge Hawaiian memorial pageant will be held on Monday. SPEED BOAT EXPLODES. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, August-14. Garwood, the millionaire, who builds speed boats fast enough to beat mile-a-minute trains, narrowly escaped death when the latest creation, Miss America VI., literally raced herself to dortli in Detroit River. Her estimated speed was 105 miles an hour, when tlie engines literally blew themselves through the bottom of the boat. The spectators were watching the swiftlymoving streak when a crash came like an explosion of wood and the engineer was tossed in tlie air. There is no sign of the engines among the wreckage.