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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18241, 27 November 1924, Page 10

The largest number of passengers ever taken out of San Francisco by a Union OomDany's vesseT was bVought by.the Tahiti, which arrived at Wellington Yesterday from the Califom pert (si x 's Tuesday's "Post'.')- Th f., record was broken by the same vessel on her last trip, but this time she carried fifty more passengers of all classes, bound both for this port and for {Sydney, bringing her total up to 290. The Niagara, which left Vancouver on 19th November for Auckland, via " Hont.lt! and Suva, is also bringing an exceptionally large number of passengers, totaling approximately 030, and it was said by officers of the* Tahiti yesterday that would-be passengers were turned p.way owing to the shortage of accommodation. The passenger space on the Union Company's _ new motor liner Aorangi is also being readily applied for, and already over 1000 people have liooked for the first trip from Vancouver, Some remarks regarding the laying, of foundation-stones and the character of war memorials were made by Bishop Averill last week at a ceremony in connexion with a fallen soldiers' memorial church at Uruti, Taranaki. "The laying of a foundation-stone is no empty ceremony," said the Bishop. "I have no time for empty ceremonies and shams. . The laying of a foundation-stf.-ne is a very important ceremony because it is a pledge of remembrance that you will continue the work that you have begun, and the stone is there to say, 'Be strong and do it.' " Tho Bishop added: lam pleased that it is to be a memorial church. I have strong opinions regarding ifleinorials to our fallen soldiers and some of the so-called memorials are an insult to those brave men. I have no time foi! people who think they are honouring these men who gave their livesi by putting up, as memorials, halls and places of amusement. It ie an insult to the soldiers, and I congratulate my friends of Uruti upon their choice of a memorial to the soldiers who gave their lives for freedom." j

Mr J. Horn, M.P., member of the Empire Parliamentary Delegation, who returned from South Africa by the Manuka this, week, states that polygamy among the natives will need; to be checked 1 if South Africa is to be a white man's country. A native boy at the age of thirteen or fourteen sets about building a kraal for himself. His next thought is of a wife, whom he purchases for a few head of cattle. Then, after the second child appears, he wants another wife, and so on with a third. Jlio women and children do all the work in the fields and the growth of' the population is attended 'by " a cry for more land, not for communal ' reservations, but for individual natives. Mr Horn said that he believed the natives should be taken from- the towns, and Segregated! in their own country and given the right to seenre freehold title in the land. Kich a right had been a blessing to the Maoris.