Who’s Who On the Tamaroa

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 13

Who’s Who On the Tamaroa

After a trip from Southampton, via the Panama Canal, in the excellent time of 33 days, the Shaw. Savill and Albion Company’s ocean greyhound Tamaroa arrived in Auckland to-day with English mails and passengers for all New Zealand ports. Excellent weather was encountered throughout the trip and the average runs for the days at sea were particularly high. In December the Tamaroa established record time for the Soutliampton-Well-ingion run, reeling off the distance in 30 days 17 hours. When he attended the University of Otago many years ago, Mr. E. C. Lindsay. who -was born in Dunedin, was a Rugby footballer of note. Now he is a successful London surgeon and honorary surgeon to the London East Hospital. Mr. Lindsay has arrived to spend three or four weeks with his parents in Christchurch. Mr. E. Gale, M.8.E.. R.X., has arrived to take the post of commissioned gunner on the H.M.S. Veronica. He replaces Commissioned Gunner Austin, who is returning to England. Mr. Gale, who saw active service with the navy during the war, received his M.B.E. for conspicuous work in that period. Captain W. and Mrs. Lovering, of Cornwall, who will leave the Tamaroa at Port Chalmers, are visiting New Zealand for a fishing and shooting holiday. He was formerly of the Durham Light Infantry. “I would not advise any man to seek success in the Argentine unless he has capital,” says Mr. P. Martin, a young New Zealander, who joined the ship at Panama and is returning to the Waikato. Mr. Martin, who went to the Argentine to take up farming, worked on several holdings of immense size. He has decided that the Dominion is the more promising country. “Unless you are in a big way you can’t get started over there,” he remarked. * * * Mr. M. Bethell, the well-known North Canterbury run-holder, spent some months in England. While in London he visited the Smithfield markets on the day that some lamb from his own station arrived there. Business men are very pleased with the Tamaroa’s fast service, said Mr. G. Sara, New Zealand manager for Cadbury and Co., chocolate manufap* turers. It w T as now possible for business men either in New Zealand or England to make fast trips to either country without a waste of time. “The best-behaved party of schoolboys which has ever been carried on the Tamaroa.” That is the tribute paid by the master of the ship to a party of 20 English schoolboys who have come out under the Church of England immigration scheme. They will all take up farming in various parts of the Dominion. Mr. P. M. Tone was in charge of the boys and said that they had behaved themselves splendidly during the whole voyage.