PRE-CONFERENCE ISSUE D-PACIFIC OFFICIAL ORGAN OF I HE PANAIOFIEIC UNION /934 it+ t. Featuri '3 C The Third Pan-Pacific Women's Conference By Ann Y. Satterthwaite, Secretory The Melbourne Centenary By Arthur H. O'Connor New Zealand, Land of Geysers and Volcanoes By Dr. Harold T. Stearns e Gorges of the Yangtsze Kiang By Dr. Bolivar Lang Falconer The Philippine Republic By Alexander Hume Ford Vol. XLVII. No. 4. APRIL-JUNE, 1934 25 Cents o Copy ... ai 0.11r filw-liarmr fttga3itr : ,, CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD A . XLVII. +..s vol. No. 4 . f- g 5 k CONTENTS FOR APRIL-JUNE, 1934 1.1. ..= -i, 17.! k 41' 4; The Third Pan-Pacific Women's Conference - - - - 303 4 By Ann Y. Satterthwaite 4 0 • , 4 - The Sensory Appeal of Sight in Hawaii 311 • By Maurice Hill • 1,.•' • 14 New Zealand, Land of Geysers and Volcanoes - - - 321 • 4,_, By Dr. Harold T. Stearns • (, • i • Mia-Mia to Metropolis, Melbourne Centenary - - - - 327 By Arthur H. O'Connor 14 A Voyage Through the Gorges and Rapids of the • (4.. Yangtsze River 333 st • Ti... By Dr. Bolivar Lang Falconer, F.A.G.S. • $ 4 The Japanese Ideal of Harmony 343 .1 'I By Ken Kawachi 5 .1 i The Philippine Republic 347 .1 By Alexander Hume Ford • .1 Education of Girls in Fiji 349 By A. Maud Griffin al , t Some Impressions of Canada 353 .1 By W. G. Crossle • 1 .1 Scenic Beauty of Korea 359 .10 Index to Volume XLVII (January to June, 1934, inclusive) 364 .1 4 Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research Institution, Vol. IX, No. 2 365 L4 .1 .1 4 Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union, New Series No. 170 - 381 . .1 4 .1 Oilit 4-• Quarterly filib-Varifir fflagazine / PublishedsetirIntheUnitedtatesandpossessns$3.00inajvanee.Vadaandkx0$3:2g.W byALEXANDER HllEEORtPan-Pactlic CuiBuiltHonoluLH.Yarly sub- • -i-- I For all foreign countries, $3.50. Single Copies, 25c. I Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. Permission is given to reprint any article from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. ___ , ,alurunaRanpzan,arrunvnui • .414/40A. _____ ' Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Ltd. 302 THE MID-PACIFIC Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, international chairman of the First Pan-Pacific Women's Conference, .1928, being greeted by the director of the Pan-Pacific Union, Alexander Hume Ford. THE MID-PACIFIC 303 Mrs. Francis M. Swanzy, Hawaii, honorary president, and Dr. Georgina Sweet, Australia, presi- dent, of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association. The Third Pan-Pacific Women's Conference By ANN Y. SATTERTHWAITE Secretary, Pan-Pacific Union Delegates to the Third Pan-Pacific ment representatives from other member Women's Conference, to be held in Hono- countries are planning to attend. lulu this August, are already arriving, Dr. Dr. Georgina Sweet of Melbourne, Eleanor Stowe Bancroft of Mills Col- Australia, is president of the Pan-Pacific lege, California, heading the list. The last Women's Association under whose auspi- to arrive will probably be Miss Winnif red ces the conference is being held, with the Kydd of Canada, who will come direct assistance of the Pan-Pacific Union. Sev- from a triennial meeting of the Inter- eral important international gatherings national Council of Women in Paris, and have been held in Hawaii by the Union will fly across the United States in order on the subjects of science, education, the to be on time for the opening session on press, commerce, fisheries, food conserva- August 8th of this two weeks' gathering tion, surgery, and women's interests. of women from lands bordering on the During the Pan-Pacific Food Conserva- Pacific. The importance of this meeting tion Conference in 1924 the late Hon. may be recognized from the fact that the Mark Cohen, of the New Zealand Legis- United States government will send dele- lature, inspired by the work of Mrs. gates from its Interior, Labor and Agri- Francis M. Swanzy in many lines of wel- cultural Departments. Additional govern- fare activity in Hawaii, suggested a 304 THE MID-PACIFIC women's or mothers' conference. The of their race, all of high birth, and ex- founder and director of the Pan-Pacific cellently qualified to take part in the pro- Union, Alexander Hume Ford, imme- gram. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Taylor of diately took up the idea and worked to- Christchurch, the national chairman of the ward its culmination in August, 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women's Association in New date being determined by the promise of Zealand, states that in any session devoted Miss Jane Addams of Hull House to he to Polynesian culture they will be able present as international chairman. Mrs. to make valuable contributions. Mrs. Swanzy was chosen honorary chairman of Hariata Te Mauharanui Colwill and Mrs. the First Pan-Pacific Women's Confer- Victoria Te Amohau Bennett are half - ence and is now honorary president of the Maori, charming, cultured women, and Pan-Pacific Women's Association—a per- Miss Miria Paiki is a full-blooded Maori manent organization of Pacific women whose family has never crossed with which resulted from this first conference other races, a fact of which her relatives in 1928 and a second also held in Hawaii are exceedingly proud. Miss Paiki is a in 1930. young nurse of twenty-one, specializing in In the Pan-Pacific Union's plan of tuberculosis. She is the inaugural secre- bringing together from time to time, in tary of the Arowhenua Maori Institute, friendly conference, leaders in all lines has a knowledge of ancient Maori culture, of thought and action in the Pacific area, singing, dancing, mythology, Pa commun- it calls and finances a first meeting, the al life, and other phases. members of which are expected to form Mrs. Colwill is the daughter of the late an autonomous body for the purpose of Hon. William Swanson, M.L.C., one of arranging subsequent meetings. The First Auckland's earliest settlers, and Ani Pan-Pacific Science Conference held in Rangitunoa, a chief tainess of the Ngati- Hawaii, fulfilled all expectations and has Kahungunu tribe of the East Coast. Mrs. held further meetings at three-year in- Bennett is a lineal descendant of the first tervals in Australia, Japan, and Java, with Maori to come in their canoes from Ha- the fifth and latest in Canada in 1933 waiiki. Her great-grandfather, Tautara, after a four-year interval. It was not, chieftain of the Te Atiawa tribe, was however, until after the Union had called known as "The Peacemaker." She will and financed the first and second women's bring to the conference samples of Maori conferences that the Pan-Pacific Women's handicraft, including weaving which she Association was formed with thirteen does herself. Both she and Mrs. Colwill charter member countries represented and have a knowledge of old Maori customs, with the following objects : and both are leaders in social welfare. a. To strengthen the bonds of peace among Plans are also under way to bring a fourth Pacific people by promoting a better under- standing and friendship among the women Maori delegate, Princess Te Puea He- of all Pacific countries. rangi, a leading Maori chief tainess. b. To initiate and promote cooperation among the women of the Pacific region for the Other members of the New Zealand study and betterment of existing social con- delegation to date are Miss Ellen Mel- ditions. ville, a brilliant attorney who has been Delegates are limited to twenty-five in active practice in Auckland for over from each of the member countries, with twenty years, is a solicitor of the supreme five associates, the national chairman in court of New Zealand and an experienced each of the member countries being re- public speaker both in her own country sponsible for their choice. and in England ; Miss Alice H. G. Basten, The delegation from New Zealand a certified public accountant of Auckland, promises to be one of the most colorful who, with her sister, conducted a large and interesting, as among its members are commercial college and formed a partner- three Maori women, direct representatives ship of the only practicing woman public Australia was the first member country of the Pan-Pacific Women's Associa- tion to perfect the organization of its national committee. Dr. Georgina Sweet, chairman of the Australian delegation, who was elected international president at the Second Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in 1930, remained the acting chairman of the Australian Committee until the appointment of Dr. Ethel McLennan, Associate Professor of Botany, University of Melbourne. Other members of the committee are Mrs. Julie Rapke, honorary secretary, and Miss Elsie M. Griffin, honorary treasurer. It is expected that six delegates will be sent to this year's conference, including Mrs. J. W. C. Beveridge, Miss Florence Rothwell, and Miss Margaret Flynn. THE MID-PACIFIC 305 The Pleasanton Hotel will be headquarters for delegates. accountants and auditors in the Dominion for many years ; Miss Amy G. Kane, a member of the Wellington Hospital Board and intes- ested in many other welfare organizations ; Miss Mary M. Papps, a primary school teacher, and Miss L. Sul- livan, a retired teacher. Miss Elsie E. Andrews, secretary of the New Zea- land committee, and also a delegate (1930 and 1934), Industry—Miss Mary Anderson, Director, writers that further representatives may Women's Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor. be expected. Mrs. Marie M. Keesing, also Social Questions—Dame Rachel Crowdy, Lon- of New Zealand, is an international proj- don, England (formerly with the League of ect director and coworker with Miss Nora Nations). W. Collisson of Melbourne, Australia, in The Conference Committee is constant- a preconference study for the section on ly striving to secure a fair distribution "National and International Relations." of leadership among the various member The five other sections of the program countries, and is especially pleased with with their international chairmen for pre- the Canadian representatives who have paratory study are as follows : been newly appointed for the 1934 con- ference—Dr.