BMA world tour. Part 3.

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<p>This amateur film, which has been edited semi-professionally with additional intertitles and maps to orientate the viewer, consists of footage shot in the third part of the BMA's World Tour as they travel onwards. The group travel have left San Francisco and arrive at Honolulu on board the MV Aorangi; the arrival is filmed from the ship looking at the coastal landscape. The ladies of the party are wearing lei (garlands). The group stay at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Waikiki Beach; the setting is right on the beach and in lush tropical gardens. The party visit a village where women are making skirts from palm leaves for the tourists. There is then an amusing lesson in hula dancing. The villagers put on a performance. In a coconut grove, native peoples demonstrate going up a tree. Indigenous people are seen surfing on long wooden boards and boys dive from a jetty. Leaving Hawaii, there's various shots on deck including a baby in a baby bouncer! As the ship crosses the meridian, 'Father Neptune' appears to initiate people who haven't crossed it before; the deck is crowded with onlookers. Various people are tipped upside down into a pool. The party arrive in Fiji; they are greeted by a local band and dancing and fire-walking. The party then disembark for Auckland, New Zealand. In Auckland, the city is seen to be prosperous; the building are described as being 'tall tabernacles of trade'. There are exterior views of St Matthews, the Old Mill in Symonds Street and Grafton Bridge.</p>

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