Who’s Who on the Niagara

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 13

Who’s Who on the Niagara

(From Yesterday’s Late Edition)

Carrying 6Q4 bags of English and American mail and 531 passengers the liner Niagara arrived in Auckland from Vancouver yesterday and berthed at 2 p.m. Good weather was encountered throughout the voyage with the exeeption of three days after leaving Canada. * * * News of Mr. J. A. Warnock, who was severely injured when struck by a lorry at Niagara Falls is brought to Auckland by Mr. David Pollok, secretary of the Northern Building Society. Mr. Pollok visited Mr. Warnock in New York a day after he had been discharged from hospital. He was still in a weak state but was making rapid progress and hoped to return on the Aorangi next month. Mr. Warnock was struck on the head while operating his camera near the falls. The lorry driver was blind in one eye and failed to see Mr. Warnock, who was standing on his blind side. For three weeks Mr. Warnock lay unconscious, after which he was operated on by a Toronto specialist and set on the road to recovery. One side of his head was badly crushed, and even after recovering consciousness he was troubled with loss of memory. “Radio revolutionised the campaign.” said Mr. D. Pollok. who was visiting the U.S.A. during the recent elections. Candidates and their supporters, he said, did not require to travel about the country nearly so much. Radio was used extensively for electioneering purposes, and the night before the election Mr. Hoover addressed the people from his house. Another sidelight on the Presidential elections was given this morning by the Rev. L. F. McLaughlan, of Queensland, who is returning from a tour of the world. He was in Broadway, New York, on election night. “We were lucky to get through alive,” he smiled. “The Times Square was packed, but, although the crowd did not like the way the voting was going, it was orderly enough. America.” he said, “was exceedingly prosperous. Prohibition? Well, there was no such thing. It might be a very good thing when it came!” Among a number of clerical passengers were the Very Rev. L. F. McLaughlan, of North Queensland, and Father L. M. Mahoney, of New South Wales, who are returning after a trip round the world, during which they spent some time in the Near East, particularly Turkey. “You never see a fez there now-a-days,” said the Rev. Mr. McLaughlan. “The men are in European attire and the women in the latest Parisian fashions.” * * * Commander Hewitt returned from a visit to Fiji, where he has been looking into the pineapple industry. Mr. C. H. Archer, who has been on a world tour, states that America’s latest saying is “Better Prohibition than no liquor at all.” America is wonderfully prosperous, he says, and the reason for that is because men will work there. They do not mind how long they work so long as they are paid for it. Mr. Archer says that England is not looking too prosperous at the moment. • » * Mr. C. H. Jones, Auckland manager for Sargood, Son and Ewen, and Mrs. Jones returned after a nine months’ tour abroad. • * * Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Richardson and Miss Richardson, of Wellington, were among the returning travellers. ms* Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wilson were among the world tourists who have returned to Auckland. Mr. A. I. Johns, inspector for the New Zealand Insurance Company, has returned from a holiday trip which embraced Egypt. India, England and the Continent, the United States and Canada.