A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN

Evening Star, Issue 16225, 21 September 1916, Page 4

A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN

EX-GOMERN'OE OP HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. *w re r f r m Wtkatil,u lasi tho H0,.. W. ]?. 1-rear, cx-Goverr.or of the -.awanau H/mas, and es-Ghi-ef Justice of '® ®; IBe territory. Mr frear is typical in app-Aianco and manner of the A'mcgentleman oi education and nart c cmar-eyed soft-voiced, unassertive, but keen. °, : cinl responsibilivics in Honohihi hri-o hep. him anchored until a few week* a-o i i k ?-i2. ed to tale his wife, dan-liter’. and friend (Miss Atherton) upon a long-pro-jnp to - Australasia. Ho landed in Auckland on fceptenbor S, and has ahr-ulv embracer, m his itinerary most 0 f ihc show °i ,1 r Donji : , 1 1 ’ ;0r ‘~ R ' ,(on!a - tile "?aufama, and tne .southern cold lakos. “ I had heard much of your scenic wonders.” he said and they come up to mv bijr-est exnectaveitf i l!ilV2 bkert also to iny Aign.to tho loviniatlro experiments of the wl,i-h IS r tbe advanced nature of Am ’ sald - -honld a fiord an ine.rostiiig soo.a. study, but; his trip j, literally a rush one, ana ho, has to board tho Nia-ara at Auclda-nd on October 3. One thing that the most casual traveller cannot fad to notice,'’ said Mr Frear "is tho abundant evidence on all eider,, and in everj- ponjon of the- Dominion, of phenomeiuil prosperity. 1 have seen nowhmc a)I V sign that tho normal business of the couu- , • , Cu evpn so rm "-h ,l!i checked by the big clash in .Europe, which gives an outsider some fresh idea of the tremendous resources Britain Ims been able to throw into the balance. Wo in Hawaii hare taken the deepest interest in the war, and though we lave as wide an admixture of races colleotad under the American flag there ns could bo found in any place-Hawaiians, rrench, LngliVn, Scotch, German, Duioh. Portuguese— vre liavc had no trouble. It is a point of conduct in some of the chib? where British and Germans are members to naj nothin* on the big topic, but trouble there has been none. The people of the territory have contributed largely to too relief funds—something like " £40,000, I think—and the ladies there, as in cverv country, neutral or belligerent, are sewing, knitting, and despatching comforts week by week."

The hon. gentleman and party leave Dunedin by the express to-morrow, crossins from Christchurch to the West Const.