Who’s Who in the Niagara

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 196, 8 November 1927, Page 4

Who’s Who in the Niagara

Tourists and Business Men Back from Abroad

FIRST WOOL-BUYERS ARRIVE The Niagara arrived from Van*. Oliver, a very full ship. Many tourists are beginning to come South on holiday. Yesterday’s ship brought the first of the season's wool-buyers. It isn't everyone who carries round his own motion-picture plant. Air. O. AlcGiveney does. He was a passenger ;on the Niagara, and will tour under the J. C. Williamson management as a quick-change artist. Air. AfcCiveney has a motion picture of the Dempsey - Tunney fight #ith him. and shows it for his own amusement. Ho was at one time a champion boxer himself. The Rev. T. C. Kay, who has the record of being the second chaplain to join the British Forces after the declaration of war in 1914, has come out to New Zealand on holiday. He is vicar of two London churches, one of which is St. John’s, Regent Park. Air. F. R. Jones, who is interested in the. motor business in Christchurch, has been visiting the Harley-Davidson works in America, and doing a good deal of sight-seeing. With his wife lie arrived at St. Louis two days after a tornado had wrecked part of the city. "The damage was appalling,” said Air. Jones. "Whole fronts had been torn off houses and others were lying flat, just as though they had boon trodden on by some giant. Trees had been uprooted and flung about like straws. Alotorears had been battered out of shape, just like tin toys.” Air. and Airs. Jones were given permission to take a taxi through the damaged areas of Louis, and policemen allowed them to investigate the parts they wished. Air. Jones attended the DempseyTunney fight, where he said the excitement was intense. There were policemen everywhere, and they controlled the crowd of 145.000 most wonderfully. The stadium presented a wonderful sight during the progress of the light.

The Rev. Joseph Carter, who lias been visiting Canada to help the cause of Presbyterianism there, is returning to Australia by the Niagara. He will live in West Australia.

General John Paton, C.AI.G., U.S.O. is on his way back to Newcastle. N.S.W. after attending the World Rotary Con ference at Ostcnd, Belgium.

Air. B. 11. Stafford is a son of the late Sir Edward Stafford, who. until Mr. Seddon's regime, held the record as nine years Premier of New Zealand. Air. Stafford, who was born in Nelson and spent the early years of his life in New Zealand, proposes spending some time at Taupo.

Air. E. G. Jellicoe, at one time one of Wellington’s best known legal men, returned from England with Airs. Jellicoe. During his sojourn at Home he had two unsuccessful attempts to enter the House of Commons as a Liberal. He. is a relative of Lord Jellicoe, former Gov-ernor-General of New Zealand.

Archdeacon Simpson, of Western Australia, is associated with a diocese which covers an area of half a million square miles. The Archdeacon travels about his vast district largely by aeroplane. He is a survivor of the Lusitania disaster of 1915.

Dr. J. Allan Berry is the medical superintendent of the Napier Hospital, and he has been abroad gathering information as to the latest methods of treating cancer. He contends, as a result of his investigations that a cure "is just round the corner.”

Mr. Howard G. Young and Mr. D. A. Maling,, of Boston, arrived to prospect the wool sales on behalf of American buyers. Mr. F. O. Somer and Mr. G. Graichan, representing German wool in- ; terests, have come for the same puri pose. They will remain in the countrv ! until Alarch. The leader of a delegation from the Melbourne Rotary Club to the big conference at Ostend, Mr. A. C. C. Holtz, is also general manger of the “Argus,” one of the oldest and best established A ustralian newspapers. He also attended the International Press Conferj once at Geneva in August at which Lord I Burnham presided. Though the conI ference was called by the League of Nations, explained Air. Holtz, it was in no way controlled by the League. The results, he believes, were incalculable. A wave of optimism is spreading over Great Britain, says Mr. G. C. Codlin. manager of Wilson and Horton, Ltd., back after a business trip to England, who found condition* much improved generally in the Homeland. Mr. Edward Gronicka is the new Syd- ; ney representative of UFA, the big Ger- j man film interests. He is on his way to \ take up his new position rich, withlex- | pericnce of latest film methods in i Europe and America. Air. IT. G. Guthrie, of Dunedin, is vi | well-known business man in the South ; who met fellow Rotarians at the OsI tend Conference. I*. W. A. Cuthbertson. of Sydney, Air. O. Addison, Air. W. Bailey, and Air. J. Cook, of Alelbourne, and Colonel Wooicock, of Rockhampton, Queensland, are on their way home after attending the 1 Rotary Conference in Belgium.