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Show FORMER UTAHN SPEAKS AT T ABOUT HAWAII Antone R. Tvins, Manager of Sugar Plantation on Hawaii Talks at University AlllOIl It. TvillS, manager (if tllP sugar plantation owned hy tlio Latter-day Saints I if Hawaii was tlip speaker before P.righnm Young uni-versily uni-versily student, hotly Wednesday forenoon. His theme was Hawaii, which lip slated was some two thousand miles distant, just within the tropics. In area is alxmt one-twelfth that of t'tali. hut. the islands are scattered scat-tered for a considerable distance through the racifip. On going down (hp "gang plank" from the ship, the tourist is struck with wonder at seeing see-ing so few Ilawaiians. The majority major-ity of the people, lie stated are Japanese, Chinpsp and Portuguese. At the present time Hawaiian pee,-' pie are a small minority of the populationu of the island. Some of them have mixed with the other nationalities. na-tionalities. Mr. Ivins characterized Hawaii as the iiclting pot of the earth, in substantiation of which lie cited a I situation prevailing at the L. D. S. I church school. The two hundred students- enrolled are of seventeen nationalities. The city of Honolulu is a beautiful, beau-tiful, well paved city, modern in every respect. The speaker referred to a peculiar- Hy of the school system in Hawaii. On the school grounds are found a number of small cottages, each cottage cot-tage being presided over by a school mistress. In the agricultural part of Hawaii, irrigation is necessary. The rainfall in some localities is very light, while in other places it is verj-heavy. verj-heavy. In one place referred to by the speaker, the rainfall is about 2.5G inches per annum while in another an-other place only eight miles distant dis-tant it is 502 inches. Mr. Ivins is a former school mate of President Harris and enjoyed meeting his old companion again. |
