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25 CENTS A COPY. tp Vol. XVIII. No. 4. OF HAWAj October, 1919. Y ,76e MID-PACIFIC MAGAZINE ofiScia/ 4an ofMe P 7=17 ACIPIC UNION o. HMLTN CLOSED DU o o 620 o 184 ) STATES AUSTRALASIA HAWAII ORIENT tun. iNews. Co. Gordon & Gotch Pan-Pacific Union Kelly & Walsh MIr flith-Pariftr filagazittr CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD Volume XVIII. No. 4. CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1919. Our Art Section - - - - - - - - 302 The Surf -board Riders at Waikiki Sydney to Bathurst on Motor Cycles - - - - 317 By Bont Hunter Around the Pacific by Rail - - - - - - 321 Duck Shooting in a Crater - - - - - - 327 By H. B. Com-,cns A Pan-Philippines Excursion - - - - - 331 By Carl If. van Hoven The Japanese Fishing Industry - - - - 335 By a Japanese Fisherman My Summer at Yakutat - - - ' - - - 339 By Leila V. Duncan Hawaii's New National Parks - - - - - - 343 By Lorrin A. Thurston House Boating Down the Wanganui - - - - 345 From the Diary of H. A. Parmelee Fiji—Officially - - - - - - - - 349 By Sir Bichlan Escott Some Problems of the Pacific - - - - - 353 By Prof. R. F. Irvine, M.A. Outside the Crater - - - - - - - - 357 By E. G. Bartlett The City of Victoria - - - - - - - 361 By Carl Crow. Chinese Students in Canada - - - - - - 365 By Philip K. Lem Racial Elements in Hawaii's Schools - - - - 368 By Caughan MacCaughey • The Pineapple - - - - - - - - 373 The Dutch East Indies - - - - - - 377 By 11. P. K. Douglas Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union. Series No. 1 - - 381 Rie T I: th-llarifir J I: agazine Published by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Honolulu, T. H. Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. Yearly subscriptions in the United States and possessions, $2.00 in advance. Canada and Mexico, $2.50. For all foreign countries, $3.00. Single copies, 25c. Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. Permission is given to republish articles from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. A.?' Surfboard riding in Hawaii is the thrilling sport of hundreds who have learned to perform the feat in the warm waters at Waikiki where it is always summer. -VC The trick of standing on the surfboard as it is hurled before the wave is the quick lightening-like agility necessary to rise to the feet at perfect balance. Children of five and six years of age own and operate their surf boards at Waikiki. They begin in the small surf that sweeps up to the beach and later tackle the big rollers on the reef. Sometimes the wave is caught a mile out at sea and a skilful surfer may hold his wave, standing on his board, until it touches the beach and he steps ashore. Far out at sea the expert guides his board with perfect ease, once he has (wiry/it his wave. Near the beach the gentlest ripples are made to carry the surfboard rider a few hundred yards toward shore. The surfboard of today is far larger than the board of a decade ago, then a board eight feet long would have been scorned as fit only for the new-comer, but it is easy to ride so has been generally adopted. Second only to the surfboard in Hawaii is the outrigger canoe carved from the native Koa wood, a lost art today, although a number of canoes survive. Burton Holmes is seen here in the canoe that carried him a mile before one great roller, before which sped other canoes and many surfboards with their riders. and an un The modern hotel 1 1 It is the ambition of every boy at Waikiki to learn to guide an outrigger canoe before the big waves. The small boy at Waikiki also learns to sail his outrigger canoe and becomes an adept. LEE IIIMI=1111:11=111=ti=0:138Q-SallIE=1911= , Less than a decade ago at Waikiki the grass house and the native canoe were seen side by side. Today at Waikiki modern roofing is built over Koa canoes that grow more vatuable as the years fly by. %1IIIIIIII0:01111:011:01:ELITEG=1=====1 0. t,, rir=3=nx:=1:1IIIICII=311:=0:11:EMICEDIDIIICE===17111IIIEM1=0711011:03IIMIIEM:=IECO= ku, hanamo Ka ke Du and the Australian zsk O'firr flittgazittr CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD Vol. XVIII. OCTOBER, 1919. No. 4. On the road to Bathurst. Sydney to Bathurst on Motor-Cycles By BONT HUNTER OMETIMES when I realize that Although the roads in Australia on within the next few years we shall the whole are bad and the hills are steep, S do most of our traveling in the air the mo{or-cycle is a popular machine, it makes me sad ; for I am told by all the and some good records have been put up by Australian riders in the last few. years. air-men I have met that motor-cycling One fine morning my brother and I is a tame sport after flying, and at pres- set out from Sydney on a couple of ma- ent I think shooting over the ground at chines to ride to Bathurst. This is a fifty miles an hour is the best sport go- comfortable day's run, and no feat from ing except perhaps, skimming over the a rider's point of view, but some of the crest of a wave at Waikiki beach. And finest scenery in• New South Wales is to lose enjoyment in a sport is a very sad encountered on the road, and several thing. pretty stiff climbs have to be negotiated. 317 318 THE MID-PACIFIC I was riding the latest model "Harley saw there was a garage where I filled up Davidson" and of course had no fear that with oil, and then out on the twenty-mile the Blue Mountains would prove a bar- lap to Penrith, a small town nestling rier, but Pete was on an old fixed engine among the foothills of the Blue Moun- "Triumph" of only 3/ h. p., and we tains. knew that the Lapstone Hill is a pretty The road to Penrith is good, and we stiff proposition, but still we were game made fair time over this stretch, al- to tackle anything short of a Mont Blanc. though we were not out to break any Well, off we go ! A beautiful crisp records. Mile after mile of beautiful morning, only eight o'clock and 146 miles country slipped past and all the time the to do. line of mountains looming blue in the The first sixteen miles of the Main , distance drew nearer. Western Road is known as Parramatta Twenty miles did not take us long to Road. Strange to say, this piece of road cover and we were soon booming into running as it does through the city and Penrith. Like most AUstralian country suburbs pradically all the way to Parra- towns (for you are well into the coun- matta, is the worst sixteen miles of the try by this time), Penrith does not con- journey. tain many objects of interest, unless you Things did not look too good for me are a city man, and then the large bul- with my heavy machine after we pulled lock teams we passed on entering the out of Strathfield, for here the road be- town are worth looking at. Bullock gins to show one what an Australian teams are becoming very scarce around road can do in the way of mud. For Sydney now, although there was a time several miles the route follows a fairly when the bullocky was as much at home straight course, and what should we see in George Street as he was toiling over stretching into the distance but a sea of the plains to Coonabarabran. Today one mud and slush. Pete, on the little light- must go farther afield to see these trusty weight machine, was fairly safe, but I carriers of the bush, and evens such soon had to drop down into low gear and towns as Penrith are out of their beaten literally crawl along, with black mud track. and water slopping over the foot-boards Pulling up in the main street we re- in some places. Three or four times the freshed ourselves with a cup of Austra- machine slipped from under me and had lia's beverage (tea) and gave our gallant I been doing more than five miles per steeds time to cool off. for the heavy pull hour I would have taken a very unpleas- which was just ahead of them, not that ant bath. Speaking of this reminds me they would not have gone on without it, that two friends of mine once set out but one comes to regard his machine as on motor-cycles to ride to Melbourne, a living thing, and if we wanted tea, they but had to turn back on account of the certainly wanted a rest.. The Trusty mud on this very piece of road. They "Triumph" had been running very well did get to Melbourne, but their cycles all the morning, and we were in high were in the brake van of the express. hopes that she would treat the redoubt- However, all good things come to an able Lapstone Hill with scorn, but our end, and eventually Parramatta (and luck was out. Crossing the Napean Pete, who had made good time through River, on whose banks Penrith is sit- the mud) hove in sight. Parramatta is uated, we commenced our three-mile the oldest town in New South Wales, climb, or rather our forty-mile climb, for and a very pretty place, too, but all we the road ascends all the way to Mount THE MID-PACIFIC 319 Victoria, and then drops 1100 feet saddle and puffed off round a corner out through the Mount Victoria Pass.
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