Polynesia At New York

World Fair

From Our Own Correspondent.

Honolulu, Sept. 30.

POLYNESIA will be strongly represented at the New York World Fair in 1939, in a display that will cover 46,000 sq. feet, landscaped to represent a tropical garden, in which appropriate buildings will be erected for exhibits of Polynesian culture from primitive to modem times.

This announcement was made this week by Mr. John H. Wilson, postmaster, of Honolulu, and veteran showman, who has entered into a partnership with New York promoters.

Hawaii and Samoa representatives will be chosen from the communities here, but in January Mr. Wilson will sail for Fiji.

New Zealand and Tahiti to engage at least 20 men and women from each group. Mr.

Wilson will be accompanied by an agent of the New York group.

Preference will be given to troupes al ready experienced in public performances.

In Tahiti Mr. Wilson hopes to enlist fire walkers. Artisans will be chosen so that they may demonstrate their arts and crafts in the shadow of Manhattan’s towers.

Mr. J. B. Collins, of W. R. Carpenter & Co,, Ltd., Salamaua. New Guinea, ar rived in Sydney by the “Macdhui” in September, for three months’ furlough.

Mr. A. Cooper, formerly with Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine, Co., Ltd., Misima Is land, Eastern Papua, arrived in Sydney re cently by the “Macdhui”.