tions is a research and conference body, international and inter-racial in composition, with ite interests centred in the Pacific area. The tion of -the organization its purpose as being "to study the conditions of the Pacific therefore, would spread to, this trade. This merger will mean that the independent fruit operator, when ther he be in London to look' after the British market, or in any of the large centres of this country, will be hard put to it to get suppl unless he is actually his own grow for the reason that the merger so strong as to be able to freeze him out of existence.
And this is but an instance of what is taking place in almost every me of activity. One can to-day arrive at San Francisco from the Orient, we will say: you may take your room at your hotel here, then go on from point to point straight across the country, stopping at a hotel in each city, only to find that you have been the guest everywhere of a great hotel combination which has buying power that the individual hotel can never hope to attain to. What the effect of mergers is in the United States is of little interest to other countries bat [what the effect of these great merge ers will develop into in the various markets of the world does vitally matter, It is by for the most significant factor in the whole realm of the people with a view to the Smprovement of their mutual relations." In of this purpose, the Institute enjoys the advantages of unhampered scientific inquiry, cooperatively undertaken, and of di fession unrestricted " by offic attitudes or. diplomatic considera. tions, It is an organization of peoples, not governments, concerned with the discovery of basic facts of the Pacific area, and with the interpretation of" those facts through the frank exchange of racial and national points of view. The international organization of the Institute consists of a governing body known as the Pacific Council, composed of one represent ative each, appointed from the fafliated national councils. A. permanent Central Secretariat coated at Honolulu, Hawai, com-[posed of a General' Secretary and an association of the secretaries of the several departments of admini stration, research, conference, and information, together with an sry Committee inter-racial in and International Re-def appointees from the research Jeommittees of the various national Jcouncils. The national organization consists of a series of autonomous groups.
The procedure of the Institute jcomibines the stimulation of research into Pacific problems, Initiated by the International Research Committee and carried Jout through the national research Jcommittees in ce-operation with lather existing research institutions; the interchange of information and the publication of studies and research findings as bases for the consideration and discussion of Pacific problems; the application fof the conference method to the [discussion of these problems through the biennial convening of groups selected by the various rational councils with a view to the presentation of technical and expert information and of racial and national points of view.
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