PACIFIC RELATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19615, 22 July 1927, Page 5

PACIFIC RELATIONS

INSTITUTE CONFERENCE JAPAN’S PROBLEMS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. HONOLULU, July 20. Sir Frederick Whyte (chairman of the British Group) presented a paper to the Pacific Institute on ‘ China and the Foreign Powers.’ Tracing the relations cf that country with other nations from early times, he said that Britain’s police in China had been dictated, primarily, if not solely, by commercial hiterest. Reviewing the Japanese Im»erial policy, he said that it was as astifiecl as the Imperial expansion of liitain across the sea or America’s cxinnsior to the Pacific coast. Dr Sawayanagi (head of the Japanese delegation) said that the Pacific Ocean was gradually becoming the centre of the world. He added that Japan was facing a difficult task in trying to solve its food problem, which could be done only through tolerance and enlightened co-operation by all the nations bordering on the Pacific. PROTECTION OF POLYNESIAN PEOPLE. HONOLULU, July 21. (Received July 22, at 9.35 a.m.) Mr W. H. Cocker, barrister, of Auckland, addressing the Pacific Institute, said: “There has not been enough time for the full development of a_ national spirit and consciousness in New Zealand. So complete has been the connection with Britain that the New Zealander is inclined to regard himself as a Britisher subject first and a New Zealander afterwards, yet, any attempt at dictation on the part of Britain would be strongly resented. The country is showing an increasing interest in foreign affairs. It may be that New Zealand is destined to play an important part in the . protection and advancement of the Polynesian peoples of the South Pacific.”