Who’s Who on the Aorangi

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 811, 4 November 1929, Page 11

Who’s Who on the Aorangi

Carrying English. Canadian an< American mails, 3,000 tons of carg( and the biggest passenger list of tin season, the Union Company’s line! R.M.M.S. Aorangi arrived at Auckland from Vancouver at 3 p.m. yesterday, berthing shortly after 5 o’clock. Rough weather was met with in the first portion of the voyage, but the last week provided an excellent passage. The presence of the Rangitiki on the eastern side of Prince’s Wharf necessitated the Aorangi moving past her usual berthing place and making fast on the western side.

A maiden voyage to New Zealand and Australia is being made bv Mr. and Mrs. A. X. Mouat, of Canada. Mr. Mouat recently retired from the important post of Comptroller-General for the Province of British Columbia and is now beginning his leisured period by making an extended tour. After a visit to Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. Mouat will spend two months in Auckland.

That Java was the most interesting country visited by them during their world tour, is the conviction of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Whitworth, of Melbourne. who are returning to Australia on the Aorangi. On several occasions they travelled in company with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Frost, of Auckland, whom they met in various parts of America and Europe. “The island of Java is exceedingly prosperous and ihe sugar-cane factories now number 200,” said Mr. Whitworth. “The production of batik work is also on the increase, together with the manufacture of brassware.”

Dr. R. Pulliene, of Adelaide, is returning after an extensive visit to the United States. He is an eye, ear and throat specialist and found that in the United States great strides have been made with artificial aids to hearing. Dr. Pulliene visited a big new hospital at Los Angeles, which is to cost £2,000,000 and will be the last word in hospitals. He remarked that is was a marvellous building and will have accommodation for 3J500 beds. In Arizona the doctor saw the Rooseveldt Dam, which irrigates an area of 225,000 acres, and the new Coolidge Dam, which will serve a larger area. Formerly this land was a desert.

Mr. Julian B. Foster, Trade Commissioner for the United States in New’ Zealand, has returned after spending nine months in his own country. He is accompanied by his wife. They were married just before they left on their trip abroad.

Mr. W. F. Hargreaves, of the staff of the Bank of New South Wales, Suva, has come to Auckland on holiday.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Hawthorne are South African visitors on a world tour, which they are just finishing after visiting England, the United States and Canada. They propose taking a look at New Zealand with the object of settling here.

Mr. Malcolm M. Brodie, of the Melbourne firm of John Anderson and Co., is returning to Australia after a world tour. He was one of the few Britishers who crossed the Atlantic on the first trip of the new German liner Bremen.

Mr. W. A. Anderson, who with his wife and daughters is returning to Sydney after an extended visit abroad? found business very unsettled everywhere.

Mr. Otto Sommer, a Continental wool-buyer, has arrived to prepare for the New Zealand sales. Mr. G. Graichen. another overseas buyer, was also on the ship.

Mr. F. Mcßryde, manager at Wellington for the A.M.P., returned from a trip abroad.

Mr. W. Carrick Wedderspoon, head of the engineering firm of that name in Auckland and Christchurch, ha* been on a four months’ tour abroad.

Five months’ study in Italy were included in a tour of England, Ireland and the Continent by the Rev. Brother Hippolyte, of Sacred Heart College. He is full of enthusiasm for the changes wrought in Italy by Mussolini who, he says, is immensely popular and successful in every community. Conditions throughout the country are better and much more prosperous than before.

Mr. S. McKay, chairman of directors of the H. V. McKay Pty., Ltd., Sunshine Harvester Works, Melbourne, Is head of the largest works of this kind in the British Empire and is now extending the activities of the firm to Canada. This factory will supply auto-header harvesters to Canada, the United States and the Argentine. It is probably the first time in history that an Australian organisation has spread its activities so far abroad. Mr. McKay stated last evening that during the past two years most suc- | cessful experiments had been made in the TJ.S.A. and Canada with the Sunshine Auto-header Harvester, a i self-propelled machine which takes the heads of standing crops of wheat and other cereals and threshes and prepares the grain for market. The I machine can harvest 40 acres a day with one man, and the consensus of opinion in America is that these machines effect a saving of at least [BO per cent.

Mr. McKay hopes that his Canadian branch will be manufacturing machines in 12 months. Until then large quantities of machines are being dispatched to North America from Australia.