BACK FROM GEORGIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 13

BACK FROM GEORGIA

U.S. CONSUL “GLAD TO BE HOME” ASSISTANT ARRIVING SOON Back from his homeland and especially from his home State, Georgia, where the peaches grow, Mr. Walter F. Boyle, Consul for the United States, sat back in his chair this morning, the chair which has been vacant for four months, and said, “This feels like getting back home again.” And he s-ighed contented ly. First and foremost, Mr. Boyle wished to contradict the rumour that he was returning for only six months. "I’ve heard nothing to suggest that I am to leave,” he said, "and I certainly don’t want to go away from Auckland for a long time.” IMPRESSED WITH NEW ZEALAND Ho is to be joined in a month by the newly-appointed Vice-Consul, Mr. William B. Cochran, who is leaving by the Makura. Mr. Cochran came to New Zealand with the United States Fleet in 1926, being an ensign on the U.S.S. Mexico, and the Dominion made such an impression on him that he decided to come back at the first opportunity. His six years in the navy, including four in the academy, having been served, he has joined the consular service. “In five years the United States seem to have changed very little,” said Mr. Boyle. “Yes, I suppose the country is prosperous, a great many sections seem to .be so, though others are not.” Mr. Boyle, with Mr£. Boyle and Miss Fay Boyle, left Auckland in August last. The Consul went to attend the Pacific Foreign Conference at Los Angeles in September and then he addressed trades bodies on the Pacific Coast, at San Francisco, Portland, Minneapolis and Chicago. BACK TO THE FARM After that he went to Washington and got leave of absence. He went down to Virginia to see how his farm was getting along and. going still further south, visited his old home in Georgia. "I went to Florida to see the remains of the land boom.” he said. “Prices soared up to an absurd height, the slump came and now they are right down again. I don’t think the cyclone had anything to do with the slump; it probably eased the position by destroying old buildings and allowing new ones to be built with the insurance moneys.” Mrs. Boyle will not leave for New Zealand until June and Miss Boyle The consul w4ht to attend the Pacific Mr. Boyle arrived by the Tahiti at Wellington and came north by the Limited this morning.