Show AUSTRALIA PLANS PLANS' TO GOVERN ISLANDS Former Possessions of Germans Ger Ger- mans mans-in mans n Pacific to Come Under Commonwealth I II I GLASGOW Scotland May 27 The The I Rt Itt Hon JIon Sir Sir William MacGregor K C. C i M. M G. G former governor of at Queensland Australia recently addressed dressed a meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing of ot th the Glasgow Glagow chamber of ot commerce commeree com corn comi i merce meree and manufacturers on the subject subject sub sub- i of the Pacific and its settlement i Mr 1 J. J W. W Murray president of the the chamber presided and in Introducing the lecturer said that Sir William was was was' an ardent imperialist whose views were founded on wide experience Mr Murray then proceeded to read a letter from Sir Thomas Mackenzie high commissioner of or New Zealand in which he expressed their Indebtedness to Sir William MacGregor for taking up up the question of the Pacific islands Sir Thomas also paid a tribute to the I Iway way in which the subject was dealt I with by Sir William MacGregor whose work he considered must appeal to to all those who had the interests of the empire tit at t heart and were concerned for the preservation of peace and prosperity in the Pacific Sir William MacGregor in his lecture lee lec ture described the various islands of the Pacific and gave some account of oC their history and commercial re re- re I sources Referring to the German I possessions there Sir William expressed expressed ex- ex pressed the hope that they might be handed over to the Australasian do do- minions He considered that eventually eventually ally aly all al the islands in the western wester Pacific must come under the common common- lUt w wealth He declared that hat from the tha time he went to New Guinea now known as a Papua and planted the I Union i Jack there in the name pf Qu Queen en Victoria September 4 4 1888 un until until un- un I til t he e left lec the island ten years later he never lost sight of the fact tact that before long it I must become an Integral part of oC the great commonwealth and ho was careful that In his day no law should be passed that would be a bar barto barto to a union being effected Sir William i added that if IC he Were not convinced i that the government of the natives in possession of oC the Islands of the Western West West- West West-I em ern Pacific would be conscientiously i cared for he would never advocate handing over those islands to Australia Australia Aus Aus- and New Zealand I |