PROBLEM OF PACIFIC.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1923, Page 5

PROBLEM OF PACIFIC.

FUTURE PEACE OF WORLD. ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS. GETTING CLOSER TOGETHER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Captain Pollock, Governor of American Samoa, and the officers of the Ontario were accorded a civic reception to-day. The Mayor (Mr. Gunson) said it was realised that the American Navy, like the British Navy, was a great engine for peace, rather than an instrument of war. The Hon. C. J. Parr welcomed the visitors on behalf of the Government. He said that 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 the opinion that these two nations would be drawn closer and closer together in the great problem of the Pacific, in which they were both vitally interested. It was an immense problem, complicated by Canadian, North American and South American people with varying races and viewpoints on one side of the great ocean, and the great yellow races, and other diverse races on the other, with diverse ideas, civilisations and faiths, lie felt sure the problems would be faced and solved-on the sound lines of reason and justice, with the great Brit* ish Empire and the great American Republic working hand-in-hand. Tn reply, Captain Pollock said that since the United States had come into the Pacific in 1898 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 Now Zealanders there had been most cordial, and he considered it <a pleasure to be associated with New Zealanders.