THE V.M.C.A. IN HONOLULU.

Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 13 May 1887, Page 11

THE V.M.C.A. IN HONOLULU.

One of the very best and most popular institutions in Honolulu is the V.M.C.A., the rooms of which are a credit to the city and an undoubted boon to strangers, who have free access at all times. The large and commodious brick building is Dresided over by an energetic and courteous secretary, and the tables are most abundantly supplied with all the leading magazines and periodicals, British, American, and Colonial. When in addition to this we find that the association provides a soft-footed, polite Kanaka attendant, and a bountiful supply of iced water, it is hardly to be wondered that the ->hady lounge of its pillared portico' is a popular resort, and that the cool recesses of its airy trading-room are much frequented, not only by tool, perspiring, glad-to-get-out-of-the-sun strangers, but by the shrivelled-up languid humanity yclept residenters. Strangers have also free access for a month to an excellent library just across the way ; and the Chinese, too, not to be outdone, have a V.M.C.A. of their own in the Miburbs. Accompanied by an intelligent son of the " Flowery Land " I went over the Jatter and found everything j-crupulously clean, and the whole establishment apparently in a most flourishing condition ; certainly it says a good deal for the much abused " chinkie " that with a subscription of sdol per annum this very desirable institution should have a membership of over 300, with an average attendance at all meetings of about 50,