CHINESE DISCIPLES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 12

CHINESE DISCIPLES

MEET IN AUCKLAND N.Z. NATIONALIST PARTY “LOVE EACH OTHER,” THE SLOGAN Bunting flies by day from a shop in Hobson Street and at night there are lights and feasting. After much preparation the Chinese Nationalist Party is holding a Dominion conference, delegates having come from Wellington, Hamilton, Wanganui and Christchurch.

On Sunday the conference began and it will continue with afternoon and evening sessions until to-morrow. Last evening the president of the conference, Mr. Wai Poi, of Auckland, and some of the delegates explained to visiting SUN reporters that the object of the assembly was to make all the parties in New Zealand “love each other.”

“If you would like to know some of the principles of the Chinese Nationalist Party I will tell you,” he said. “The president of the party was Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who is dead before two years ago. We are all his disciples.” “We want to make a good China. We want ”

Here the delegate was stuck for the right words. After a discussion in Chinese with his confederates, he said: “We want government of the people, for the people, by the people!” Though there are many serious speeches to be made the tone of the assembly seems to be that of a festival. Great were the preparations for the banquets, many brace of fowl and duck going to the cooking pots. Crackers and other fireworks had their part in the celebrations. The reproduction is of the official photograph of the assembly.