PACIFIC RELATIONS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12195, 21 July 1925, Page 5

PACIFIC RELATIONS

CONFERENCE AT HONOLULU “MUCH VALUABLE WORK DONE.” Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 20. The chief purpose of the Pacific Relations Conference, just concluded in .Honolulu, was to promote a better understanding and spirit of goodwill among the nations bordering on the Pacific. A number of delegates went from New Zealand, and three of them, the Hon. J. B. Gaw (Opotiki), Mr A. Gaughey (Auckland), and Mr C. M Luke (Wellington) returned by the Niagara to-day. Discussing the proceedings, Mr O. M. Luke said th'e delegates numbered about. 100, and there were 25 associate members. None of the delegates brought a mandate from their respective Governments, but much valuable work was done, and this should open the way to further important discussinus. . Some of the most eminent men of the United States and Canada were present; and there were some very strong men among the other delegations. Most of the Chinese representatives were yotlng university students with two or three outstanding men among them, including Dr. Koo, who had just come from Geneva. Japan also had some able men.

The three delegates who returned today loft Honolulu soane days before the conference concluded, 'but up to that time much consideration . had been given to eoOnomio problems as well as racial and religious questions. The industrialisation of China and Japan was the subject of a number of discussions, and the China question, together with the turmoil in that country, formed a large part of the consideration up to the time the delegates left, but finality on most of these subjects had not been reached.

Mr Luke said the machinery, providing for consideration of all aspects of the raised, consisted first of all round table conferences, and attended by those specially interested in the particular subject. 111686 conferences reported to the forum wlpch was open to all delegates. All findings were further discussed, and in some cases referred back for further elucidation. Similarly when papers of special phases of problems were presented, discussion by all delegates was invited so that all aspects of the subjects before the conference were fully ventilated.