SEPTEMBER, 1916. ONE SHILLING A COPY 12 SHILLINGS A YEAR 11111111111111111111111111111111111111 6 - 2 7 -5- 6-- IWACIPIC. itagazwzie THE 1919 PAN-PACIFIC EXPOSITION IN HONOLULU II HMLIN CLOSED DU is a corner of the Court of Seasons at the San Francisco Exposition. 620 e are no Seasons in Hawaii, only eternal spring. At the 1919 Exposi- .M5 tion one month will be as another---perfection. -77 1111141111111111 ioL. XII. No. 3. HONOLULU, HAWAII. GORDON & GOTCH, (Proprietary, Limited) Agents for Australasia. Speedy Trains in New South Wales f The Mother State of the Australian Commonwealth. The World's Famous Railway Bridge Over the Hawkesbury River, N. S. W. All the year round New South Wales is railway bridge. Here is to be found the best place for the tourist. From.Syd- glorious river scenery as well as eiccellent ney and New Castle, as well as from points fishing and camping grounds. By rail also in other states, there are speedy trains, with is reached the splendid trout fishing streams , comfortable accommodations, at very cheap of New South Wales, stocked with rates to the interesting points of the Mother yearling and two year old trout. State of the Australian Commonwealth. Beautiful waterfalls abound throughout Within a few hours by rail of the metrop- the state and all beauty spots are reached olis of Sydney are located some of the most after a few hours' comfortable trip from wonderful bits o scenery in the world. It Sydney. is but a half afternoon's train ride to the beautiful Blue Mountains, particularly fa- Steamship passengers arriving at. Sydney mous for the ,exhilarating properties of at- disembark at Circular Quay. Here the mosphere. nere and in other parts of the city tramways (electric traction) converge, state' are the world's most wonderful and and this is the terminus of thirty routes, beautiful limestone caverns. Those of varying from two to eleven miles in length. Jenolan are known by fame in every land. One of the best means of seeing the pic- Reached by the south coast railways are turesque views and places of interest about the surf bathing and picnicing resorts famed Sydney is to travel around them all by elec- throughout Australia and even abroad. tric tram. The cost is trifling, as the fares on Within a score of miles of Sydney is the the state railways are low. The secretary beautiful Hawkesbury river and its great of the railway system is J. L. Spurway. 1.1.1Minnenettetsvm•Atkvittgene • MUM nt1P lAtjokbert1 • • 1..• ttnemp•WIMptermium • patztt zunaknemos■ .---5 ., 4., . oIlr to-Partur III agazitir . • CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD VOLUME XII. • E No.3. E . 1 CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1916. 'X • • Our Art Section (The 1919 Pan-Pacific Exposition, Honolulu) 201 • • The New Idea in Expositions, Honolulu, 1919 - - - 217 Balboa Day in Hawaii 227 • By Jean West Maury. • A Solomon Island Cruise 233 '.; (From the Log of the Snark.) 4 By Charmian Kittredge London. X. • Jenolan Caves, New South Wales 239 4--4 • By Una Kidgell. On to Buitenzorg 249 • From the Editor's Diary. • 0 Polo in Hawaii 253 By Laurence Redington. !• • E The New Korea 259 • By Count Terauchi, Gov.-General of Chosen. • . China's Ancient Wonders 265 ! By Frederick McCormick. e • Hawaii's Flower—Hibiscus 271 • . E By Alonzo Gartley. • Transportation in the Philippines . 277 • By 0. Garfield Jones. • • • • New Zealand's Main Railway 283 • By R. Farnall. vil • Following of Living Lava Flow 287 I • By L. W. de ris-Norton. Tongan Homes 293 • By W. T. Brigham, 21.M., Sc.D., Director Bishop Museum. • • Encyclopedia of Hawaii and the Pacific. i-,F. 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He is one of the Advisory Committee of the 1919 Pan-Pacific Exposition in Honolulu. flith-Pariftr flittgazittr CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD VOLUME XII. SEPTEMBER, 1916 No. 3 The model in the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, of an Hawaiian preparing tapa, an almost lost art that it is hoped will be revived for the 1919 Exposition. This might, with proper scenic background, become a model for a diorama on a large scale of the ancient Polynesian industry of tapa making. The New Idea in Expositions Honolulu, 1919 T WAS from a tiny, provincial fair, der-compelling exhibit of those islands at for the sale of home-made goods held the San Francisco Exposition was devel- I first in a backwoods native village of oped. From that tiny Moro exchange, or- the Philippines, that the unique and won- ganized a few years ago by a young army 217 ?18 THE MID-PACIFIC Here are seen some of the dioramas in the Canada Building at the San Diego Exposition that merge into each other and make the visitor believe that he is looking out doors upon the real scenes that are so skilfully depicted in the dioramas. officer, grew first the annual Philippine Ex- of money that is to be spent, but the amount position, that lasts a month each year in of brains, energy, and the power of co- Manila, and from that developed the won- operation of all Pacific races in Hawaii and derful self-supporting exhibition of the around the Pacific Ocean that is to tell the home industries of the Philippines, that at story in Hawaii. San Francisco and San Diego astonished the It was the boast of the San Francisco visiting world only less than did the Ca- Exposition Company that it had spent five nadian exhibit and buildings at these ex- million dollars upon exhibit buildings alone positions which cost a million and a half before the gates of the great Panama-Pacific dollars to build and install. International Exposition were thrown open The people of the Philippines have given to the world, and it was a boast that at- the world expositions an object lesson as to tracted thronging thousands. It is ithe how brains, energy, and grit combined with boast of the proposed Pan-Pacific Exposi- co-operation on the part of the many lowly, tion in Honolulu in 1919, that the