Who’s Who on the Rotorua

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 527, 3 December 1928, Page 14

Who’s Who on the Rotorua

IMPORTANT PASSENGER LIST Several important people arrived from England by the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Rotorua yesterday morning. The voyage was perfect, and passengers were delighted. A call was made at Madeira, which is off the usual beaten track, where four hours were spent in sight-seeing. There were 74 first-class and 391 third-class passengers. Among the latter were many boys and girls for Flock House. * • * The Countess Thelma Metaxa is a very charming young Irish noblewoman who has come out on a visit to friends in New Zealand. She was delighted with her first view of the Dominion, and looks forward to her stay here. The Countess, who is unmarried, comes of a family renowned in the British Navy. • • * Lady Beauchamp, of Hampshire, England, has come out to visit her son, a sheepfarmer in the Mackenzie Country, South Canterbury. Another reason was that she desired to escape the English winter. Lady Beauchamp’s son, who was formerly an officer in the British Navy, is delighted with life in New Zealand. • • * Mr. L. H. Mullard, a superintendent of the Pacific Cable Board, will probably join the cable ship Iris at Auckland. He was formerly stationed at Fanning Island and in London. • * * Captain A. G. Warren, R.N., a retired naval officer, is making his first visit to New Zealand, and hopes to do some fishing. * * * Mr. T. Miller, managing director of R. O. Clark, Ltd., Auckland, has returned after spending several months abroad. Since last March he has visited England, Scotland, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and France While in London Mr. Miller had the misfortune to break an arm, but he has quite recovered from the accident. ♦ • * Mr. J. Seed, a retired farmer from Preston. England, is on a visit to his brother at Hastings. Before leaving England he met the New Zealand representatives, who were touring with *he Empire Farmers’ Delegation. * • * Captain Roderick Anderson, M.C., formerly of Christchurch, and now attached to the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), is home on furlough from India. His regiment is stationed on the north-west frontier, and is frequently called out at very short notice to quell disturbances. * • * The extraordinary building activity in all parts of England astonished Mr. H. J. Beswick, a Christchurch solicitor, who has been abroad for six months. In towns like York, and in the manufacturing towns the building activity is remarkable. A similar state of affairs exists in London and Edinburgh. As far as trade is concerned, Mr. Beswick says that the English people are adapting themselves to circumstances, and there are obvious signs of a revival in some of the trades. Since he was last in England two years ago the motor traffic has increased enormously. * * ** Mrs. Alberta McLean, of “Whangapoua,” Coromandel, is a confirmed globe-trotter and a great lover of animals. She brought two horses out with her on the Rotorua—lmraan, a splendid Arab stallion, which she purchr ed in Egypt, and Pure Pure, an attractive mare which has almost completed a tour of the globe with her mistress. Mrs. McLean intends to breed polo ponies for the Indian market with her Arab, as the half-Arab is in great favour there, providing a suitable animal can be supplied. Pure Pure, the mare, was bought in India, taken to Egypt, from there to England and out to New Zealand. Mrs. McLean is also interested in thoroughbred sheep, which she breeds on her Coromandel property. * * * Mr. James Wilson, deputy-chief manager of the National Bank of Australasia, whose headquarters are at Melbourne, returned from a nine months’ tour abroad with his wife and two sons. He was formerly of Auckland and will spend some days here before returning to Australia.