AN ARCHDEACON VISITS HAWAII

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1928, Page 2

AN ARCHDEACON VISITS HAWAII

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The latest attack on the White Australia comes from Archdeacon Sjipw, of- Adelaide,. He is reported to that, Japanese are suitable people to the Northern Territory , and that they ought to be en!'cou7a’ded to do so. Oddly enough, the Vrevlrend gentleman has just returned' 'Airofn-'a visit to Hawaii.

, Uncle Sam annexed Hawaii 30 years ;v;Vg(j-;^::--jKv;er-;S-ince then lie lias made • strenuous elideavpurs, with all the [' ; wealthwand; ’scientific .methods of propagaucfa iCpmmand, toyAmeriAntnisp,|^tg.cipplyglvt;''i>'opula|;ipn of the group.' : HUtThtSssweated bibod 1 trying to. lingua franca. oi th^'liJeS';'•;> (H-iSiefforts; in .this field have led to.pidgin English; bbepming the language' > ; of, ’ the (market-place, but Japanese .is'the language in niost r of the . homes. The Y.W.C.A., ..the Y.M.C.A. and missionary bodies galore have poured out their treasure trying rtp't'vcphvert the?!.‘ (Chinese,Japanese, Tamil and Filipino ~ denizens of the ; trppic Eden into. Gbd-fearing, 100 per cent Americans, with equally unim-<-pressive'results.i r According to .the 1927 report of the Hon. Wallace Rider, .-Farrington, E.S. Governor and Captain-General of Hawaii, df a total population of 333,420, '217,608 are ostensibly American eitizens. •. But the vast majority of the ostensible Americans are. the sons and daughters of Oriental parents. Of the 132,242 Japanese, for'instance, iTT,27? rank as American citizens, but they are all, or nearly all, the children oi the other 52,964, who remain faithful to the religion and the patriotic feelings they brought from. Nippon. Of tpe-40,000 registered voters, .-only 3000 arp Japanese, but in 20 [ years’ ■’ time the Japanese, witfj (their faith. in the Mikado still intact,., will’be .in anoveri for their birth-rate is to that of the other racial groups, as ‘ two to one.

Archdeacon Snow must have gone aboht' Hawaii with' his eyes shut.

The Archdeacon Snow referred to above' will -’be known to many of our reader’s. He was at Rimu in .the early days of the gold rush; afterwards at Hokitika, on the staff of the “ West Coast Times,” and later at Kumara as part proprietor of the “ Kumara Times.” ■

Leaving Kumara, Mr H. L. Snow, joined the Anglo Church, and taking holy orders, was a vicar at Dunedin. ..Later Ife went to .Australia. Old. residents oUthe .Coast, especially those residing in- Kumara, will be interested to ••learn tliat Snow, >a£ one ; time .part- owner and editor of tile “ Kumara Times,” is still in the land of the living. He is now located at Fort Lincoln, South Australia, and in a letter to his former partner, Mr Pamment (Town Clerk of Kumara), .saysr:=3-r , ‘The whole -State is.jn a deplore. able financial condition. A fearful strike prevails, and labour is constantly disorganising shipping. The Budget for the year alone shows a deficit of one million sterling. South Australia is now the heaviest taxed State in Australia, being £155 per bead of the population. Prices are ruinous, and, if the Commonwealth Government does not come to < the aid of the State with a special vote, the country will be on the verge of bankruptcy.” Archdeacon and Mrs Snow make kindly reference to the Coast, where they spent many happy days and wish to be remembered to all old friends. Certainly the old friends of Mr and Mrs Snow will be pleased to hear of them, and gratified to know they are established so well across the Tasman Sea.