PAN-PACIFIC CONGRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18457, 21 July 1923, Page 8

PAN-PACIFIC CONGRESS.

NEW ZEALAND : DELEGATED OFFICIAL NOMINATIONS. ■ PARTY OF FOUR TO ATTEND. % ■ •-■ -— — ■ ■ - ,; V [BY TELEGP.APH.—SPECIAL EEPOIITIE.]/' WELLINGTON, Friday.; The following have been nominated by the Government as its delegates to the • Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress, to ba '"- \ held in Sydney and Melbourne nextk month: Mr. P. G. Morgan, Director of V ' Geological Surveys, representing geology, vulcanology, and related subjects; Dr.-p, „■[•' H. Buck, Director of Maori Hygiene, re.' presenting anthropology and instruction : in social training of native races in the Pacific Dr. J. S_ Armstrong, Western / Samoa Administration, who has . an : . inti- >}$$■ mate knowledge of tropical problems' in agriculture. Another delegate has yet to be appointed by. the ..Minister for AgrL,''" v culture in connection with the subjects;':-' of agriculture, botany, entomology, plants-.: pathology, and introduction of exotic- fod,'. -r' der . plants. - , '\"., , ' The Commonwealth Government is con, tributing ,£SOOO toward ■ the cost of the "'' congress. It is felt that the discussions'' . of the -congress subjects_ in their scientific, economic and aspects will, favourably influence the destiny of the • Pacific peoples, and conduce to peace and . . goodwill among them. " L'

PARTY ABOARD MAKD'RA.

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Included in the passenger list of . R.M.S. Makura, which reached Auckland yesterday from Vancouver, were about twenty-five scientists, who are on thwß' way to Australia, to attend the Pan-Patina •.'"■-', Science Congress, which opens in Mel- . ; ' bourne in August. • There have been so far four gatherings ■'• for the discussion of scientific problems peculiar to the Pacific. The first, of these '■. was held in Australia in" connection with J :>£?> the meeting of the British. Association' .;.■• for the advancement of science. The next > was at San Francisco, in 1918,, under tha', > auspices of the University of California,'.' and the third at Passadena, in 1919, under; the auspices of the American Association : for the Advancement of -Science, .while. ?"!>-; the fourth was that held at Honolulu ia • 1920, under the auspices of the Pan- 'i Pacific Union. Th* fifth meeting is that A '0h to be held in Melbourne, and representatives of 15 different countries, dominions; . and colonies will attend. This; congress, which is being held under the auspices ■.%■'-■ of the Australian Research Council, will,hold meetings, in both. Melbourne . and, Sydney, and it is anticipated ihat Japan;; .fif or Java will call a conference in 1926.-. - ,<■

The main subjects of discussion at the > r congress will be the mineral, agricultural, ■ 1 and fisheries resources of the PaciSc,. tiia I status of Pacific, peoples, interchange'of ; £ students and -professors, conservation, "| pests, _ quarantine, '• and ■ co-operation. ". W. ; : t These conferences have proved! "valuably | in overcoming .the duplication that has j occurred in regard to scientific exploration i in the Pacific, -as-they enable researches '■..,: I and results to be co-ordinated.' i .'..'. I It was pointed out yesterday by'JPro* l fessor H. E. Gregory, dierctoir of the-/ | Bishop Museum at Honolulu, whp is thai unofficial leader of the party on board; the 1 Makura, . that political and c'ommercial ~ I aspects of the Pacific were'beyond the ;; | scope of the conferences,, and 7for ■ thafr; v.l reason organisations devoted to those purs !'< 1 poses were not invited "to .send repre* ' 1 sentatives. Certain economic problems,' •: | however, received close attention,' insects, micro-organisms injurious to crops, and ,; the distribution and habits of fish being' ; J examples. The strength of the confer- ' 1 ence lay in the interchange of ideas and J authorities, together with the fact, that ,;..| the delegates represented iinstitutiotiii with J funds and personnelr capable of cqrrying 1 out' decisions. .There was a further ad. I vantage in that Government/ . d*]er/ateg | were in position to :< initiate .and!/guide- m\ activities for the'good of the Pacific '":£' Several scientists - who 'JiaVe biiieii' in f New' Zealand for ; some -weeks joined the J Maloira at Auckland^. while others wh<* [ came south with the ship_ are- making short stay in the Dominion. ' ?' 5 . PROMINEirP VISITOB3. - STAY IN .'DOMINION. 'M A number of the delegates to the Pan- i Pacific Science Congress to*be opened ai l § Melbourne in August who arrived 'by, the Makura yesterday left the ship at ; Auck* | land and took up tboir quarters ;at the ' M Grand Hotel, branding to epind sorcia tim* || ,■! in New " Zealand . bafore'; proceeding *• toi .f) Australia. ... . ■ , . ■•_' .'. The visitors are:-r . . ..V ' A ' I . Dr. G. A. R. Marshall, C.M.G., ento. molbgist, director Imperial Bureau of En* : ] teraology, : representing the British Government and Royal Society of London. .'- ■■ Dr. E. J. Butler, director Imperial J Bureau of 'Mycology and representing the j British ■ Government, (agriculture v and v j botany). He i 3 a plant pathologist with a notable,record of research work in India; Professor H. E. Gregory, geologist, director-of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. j Dr. Otto H. Swezey, -j Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Dr. E. M. Erbom, entomologist with th* - Hawaiian Board of Agriculture. \ | Dr. G. P. .Wilder, botanist, Honolulu. .-- Dr. C. Montague, Cooke, .zoologist*. 'i Bishop Museum, .Honolulu._ ~:':! Professor McMurrich, 'zoologist'' and i professor of anatomy, Toronto, Canada.- J Dr. R. R. Sayers, representing th« , ] Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.O« ' (hygiene). S '? . I Drs. Marshall, Butler, Swezey, Erb«n» --...; | and Wilder will leave on a visit to >Roto> rua to-day ._ ■. " ,j