The third annual meeting of the Pan-Pacific Association and the recognition of Balboa Day were made a joint function with a tiffin at the Carlton Cafe on Saturday and the event was a great success, nearly 200 people attending. Mr, Yang Tcheng, Vice-President of the Chinese Red Cross Society, was in the chair.
Mr. ©. H. Huston, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce, said in part:—"Questions of great importance have prompted ths Pan-Pacific Union to call an important conference in Honolulu next month, and I am glad to find it is receiving the same consideration here that is being given to it on the other side of the Pacific. The United States Department of Commerce, under Mr. Hoover, is endeavouring to do its part in furthering the era of good feeling amd stable relationships in the Orient.
The cables brought us news yes: terday of an event in Washington which is concrete evidence of the more cordial] attitude of our country towards its Oriental friends in the matter of trade relations. T refer, as you have no doubt already divined, tothe action of the Senate in approving the conference report on the so-called China Trade Bill, with whose terms and purposes you are so familiar that it is unnecessary for me to even refer to them. There is no doubt of the President's approval of this measure, and you of course know the Department's attitude towards this measure, for its approval, as well as the sanction. of the State Department, were given to the measure, even before iti started along its legislative way.
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