NEW ZEALAND AND SAMOA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18850, 1 May 1923, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND AND SAMOA.

AMERICAN VESSEL'S VISIT. CIVIC RECEPTION AT AUCKLAND. (Peh United Pp.ess Association.! AUCKLAND, April 30. Captain Pollock, Governor f of American Samoa, and the officers of the Ontario were accorded a civic reception to-day. The Mayor (Mr J. H. Gunson) said it was realised that tho American navy, like the British navy, was a groat engine for peace rather than an instrument of war. The iron. C. J. Parr welcomed the visitors on behalf of the Government. He said that the public men here to-day recognised the solemn fact that the peace of the world was in the hands of the English-speaking nations, and were of opinion that these two nations would be drawn closer and closet together in tho great problem of tho Pacific in. which they were both vitally. interested. It was an immense problem, complicated by the Canadian, North American, and South American peoples, with the varying races and viewpoints on one side of the. great ocean, and the great yellow race and Hindu population on the other, divers races and ideals of civilisations and faiths. He felt sure that tho problems' would be- faced and solved on sound lines of reason and justice with tho great British Empire and the groat American Republic working hand in hand. In reply, Captain Pollock said that since the United States had come into tho Pacific in IE9B that country and Australia and New Zealand had been gradually getting closer together, and what New Zealand had done in Samoa had brought it very close indeed to his country His relations with the New Zealanders there' had been (most cordial, and he considered it a pleasure to be associated with New Zealander’s,