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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 6

“American, of Course.”—ln Honolulu he had to make use of a taxi on one occasion when he was late for his lecture, Dr. Dengier told ills audience at the New Education Fellowship conference at. Wellington. The driver intrigued him. iHe seemed neither black nor white, yellow nor brown. So Dr. Dengier asked him about himself. rather to the taxi-driver’s astonishment. But the latter explained that Ills mother was half Chinese and half Korean, while his father was half Portuguese and half Hawaiian. "Then what arc you?’’ asked Dr. Dengier. • Meexclaimed the driver. “Why, 1 am American, of course.” A Record Cargo.— The New Zealand Star, which was launched at. Belfast by Lord Bledisloe pressing a button in Government House, Wellington, Is due In the Dominion on August 3. She Is bringing a cargo of 11.000 tons, shattering the record of 7680 tons established by the Athenio in 1914,