PAN-PACIFIC UNION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 25 May 1925, Page 16

PAN-PACIFIC UNION

COMING CONFERENCE

EESEAECH WORK AND OTHER

ACTIVITIES.

An important conference of the PanPacific Union will be held in Honolulu in July. The union is an unofficial organisation, the agent of no Government, but with the goodwill of all in bringing the paoples of the Pacific together_ into better understanding and cooperative effort for the advancement of the interests common to the Pacific area.

This summer in Honolulu it has been planned that, headed by David Starr Jordon, Sir Joseph H. Carruthers. Colonel t. Lester Jones, head of the 'United States Coast and Geodetic Snrvey; ■i. j ?" W" Evermann; also distinguished Japanese and other scientists, definite plans for Pan-Pacific research work will be outlined. Much of the research work will be carried on in Afferent Pacific countries, but '.he centail exchange information bureau wiJJ be located at the Honolulu branch of the research institution because of its convenient central ocean cross-roads position.

A round-table conference win bo held to further the programme set forth at the Pan-Pacific Commercial Conference for the charter of a vessel for a ronnd-tne-I acific cruise with selected delegates Irom each Pacific land as guests, these representing men of all lines of thought and action in Pacific lands. The one great interest of the Pacific peoples and of the peoples of the world is food production, conservation, and protection. It is likely, states an official bulletin of the union, that the leading fishery men of the Pacific will meet m July at the Pan-Pacific Ecsearch Institution to carry forward v the plans already laid for united Pacific effort for the protection and propagation of the food fish of the Pacific Ocean and its tributary "waters. Dr. B. W. Evermann expects to head this group conference. It is hoped later that Dr. L. 0 Howard will head the group of entomologists from Pacific lands who propose meeting as guests.of the institution to plan a united Pan-Pacific entomological programme.

A Pacific conference on religious and political subjects will also be held at Honolulu at the same time—not under the auspices of the Pan-Pacific Union, but an outgrowth of its effort to bring about a conference of all the V.M.C.A leaders in Pacific lands. The conference has outgrown this plan, and may organise into a premanent group of men for the discussion of the causes of conflict between peoples of the Pacific lands, and the means of removing these causes. The United States, Japan, China, Australia, and New Zealand will be represented at the conference. The New Zealand ■ delegates will, include Professor Macmillan Brown (Chancellor of the New Zealand University), Professor Oondliffe, and those taking part in the V.M.C.A. conference will include Messrs C. M. Luke, W. H. Kersley, Varney, and Canghey. The voyage each way sand the conference will occupy aiout ten weeks. The hon. presidents of the union are: The President of the Uni.ted States, the Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, the President of the House of Peers, Japan (Prince Tokugawa), and the King of Siam.