Who’s Who on the Aorangi

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 503, 5 November 1928, Page 18

Who’s Who on the Aorangi

Carrying 609 bags of English and American mail for Auckland, the Union Company’s C. and A. liner Aorangi arrived in the harbour at 5 p.m. last evening and berthed shortly before 7.30. Over 700 passengers were on board —the heaviest list for the season —and about half this number disembarked at Auckland. Excellent weather was encountered throughout the voyage.

After spending his vacation in America, Mr. Walter L. Lowrie, United States Consul-General to New Zealand, with Mrs. Lowrie, returned to New Zealand. Mr. Lowrie, whose headquarters are in Wellington, left on June 5 and has attended many trade conferences in New York and other cities where business and financial men were interested in New Zealand. “I found them surprisingly well informed as to New Zealand affairs,” he said. Mr. and Mrs. Lowrie will journey South on Tuesday.

Having concluded a trip through Europe during which he visited the Olympic Games, Mr. W. Pickering, J.P., a Sydney dentist, is on his way back to Australia. x Being interested in moving pictures* Mr. Pickering spent some time in Hollywood on his way through, and left with the impression that the silent screen was doomed. During his stay in Auckland he will visit relatives.

A party of, representatives of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia who attended the recent conference convened by the Canadian branch of the British Empire Parliamentary Association are returning to report on the results of their deliberations. They include the Hon. J. B. Gow, M.L.C. and Mr. T. Rhodes, M.P. (New Zealand); Messrs. E. G. Jansen, J. P. Naude, J. B. Wessels (South Africa); Senators Burford Sampson and H. Payne (Australia).

The remaining members of the New Zealand bowling team which concluded recently its tour of Great Britain, Canada and parts of the U.S.A., returned to New Zealand. The party included Mr. J. W. Hardley (president) and Mrs. Hardley, Mr. and Mrs. W. F.

Hardley, Mr. and Mrs. F. Moffatt, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Ai J. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McKinnon, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Thomson, Messrs. F. J. Hill, A. J. Carson, R. Hardley, J. H. Thomson, W. E. A.rey, E. J. Thomson, and Miss Parker. • * * Having flown in one of the new Ford airplanes, Mr. Herbert French, manager in Australia for the Ford Motor Co., is on his way back after a business trip to America. e * * After an eight months’ tour of England, the Continent and America, Sir. William H. Price, manager at Christchurch for the Union Steam Ship Company, with Mrs. Price and Miss K. Price, has returned. It has been purely a pleasure trip for Mr. Price and he has not thought about business. Sir William Vicars, a leading manufacturer of woollens of New South Wales, who has been in England, Canada and the States for five months, has gathered the impression that markets generally in Great Britain are on the mend, and that industrial conditions are steadily improving. Sir William is a director of John Vicars and Son, Ltd., and of the Sydney Woollen Mills, Ltd. * * * Convinced that there Is nothing of great importance to be learned in the bakery business in America, Mr. R. H. Montgomery, manager of Walter Buchanan, Ltd., is back after four months in Canada and the States. He was struck with the prosperity of Canada. An owner of horses, Mr. Montgomery was on the look-out for race meetings, but ho saw only one, on a four-furlong dirttrack at Winnipeg before a poor attendance. "They don’t go in for racing on anything near the scale we do,” he said. “There seems to be no great innovation or improvement in surgery abroad. In my opinion New Zealand and Australian surgery is holding its own with that of the Old Country,” said Er. George Barron, of Sydney, who, with his .wife and two children, is returning after a tour of the Continent, Britain and America. He attended the B.M.A. annual meeting at Cardiff as a delegate from New South Wales. Dr. Margaret Harper, a Macquarie Street specialist in women’s and children’s diseases, is going back to Svdney after a visit/to her father in London. A number of wool buyers representing various nations were among the passengers who disembarked at Auckland. They will proceed to Well- ! ing ton, where the first sale opens on i

November 16. They represent American and Continental firms. • * -* Over 700 delegates from all parts oi the world assembled at the 25th conof the Inter-Parliamentary traliats h ol,l„ at Berlln in August. Auslion M r ' represen tative was the is ayne ' of Tasmania, who is a. tnroutfn Passenger. do' good =- C °^ er D nces can »ot help b.ao good. ilt. Payne said ‘ All the *4

delegates met in the most o ‘f spirit and carried out the t>u s • ne the conference in a spirit of t 1 * 1 ® co-operation.” ■