Who’s Who on the Ulimaroa

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 830, 26 November 1929, Page 9

Who’s Who on the Ulimaroa

Carrying a full complement of passengers !ind Australian mail for Auckland and the South the UHmaroa arrived in the Waitemata from Sydney this morning, berthing at 9.15 o’clock. Good weather was encountered throughout the trip.

Billy Grime, ex-feather, light and welter-weight champion boxer of Australia. who is to meet Johnny Leckie. New Zealand feather-weight champion at N'apier on December 7 is making a visit of indefinite length. "Boxing in Australia, like all business there, is very bad at present,” he told au interviewer. He remarked that although Leckie had beaten him when they met in Australia, he felt confident that he would reverse the decision when the New Zealander faced him in »ho Napier ring.

Mr. Jack Lumsdaine (“The Radio Rascal”), who toured New Zealand some time ago as a solo entertainer, has returned under the banner of J. C. Williamson. Ltd., by whom he has been "sub-let’ to the Regent Theatres. He mentions “Lombardi. Ltd.,” and "The Cock-Eyed World” as Australia's present outstanding stage and screen attractions respectively. “Williamsons announce that they are finished with vaudeville,” he told The Sun man. ’’They now have a working arrangement with Fullers concerning the arts running in Melbourne and Sydney.”

Mr. G. S. Kemp, of Hamilton, aud his wife and daughter have returned after an Australian holiday which baa lasted a year. “Conditions are dreacK fully bad and business is shocking!* quiet,” was Mr. Kemp's summing up of the position in Sydney today.

After attending the annual confer* ence of the Institute of Incorporated

Secretaries, Mr. Vat Kirk, pubb.o accountant, of Auckland, and New Zealand delegate of the organisation, has returned from Sydney. “The New Zealand branch of the institute has been established for the past three years and Its membership iq growing rapidly,” he told The Sun.

A holiday visit to England, Scotland, aud particularly her native city, Edinburgh, has been completed by Sister J. C. Milne, of Devonport, who ha* been absent from Auckland for the past seven months. She speaks enthusiastically of the development of motor transport in ail parts of England. “It is comfortable, speedy, and much cheaper than the trains,” she said. She was particularly impressed with Edinburgh’s famous war memos ial, a beautiful, cathedral-like structure, considered to be one of the finest memorials designed and constructed since the war. * * • “The wheat crop has made a marvellous recovery, but the drought in the back country is still very bad,” reported Mr. C. H. Baddeley. of Sydney, who, with his wife and daughter, intends to make a holiday tour of New Zealand. Referring to political activities in the Commonwealth he predicted that this week would see the passing of the Child Endowment Act’s tax on industry. This had been a great burden and the probability was that the money would be raised some other way. , • • The Rev. Father Terry, who ha* been studying in Rome for the past four years, will be attached to the Auckland diocese. • • • The tea, rubber, and copra markets in Ceylon are all depressed, said Mr. Geoffrey Pickthall, a Ceylon planter who has arrived on a three months’ fishing expedition in New Zealand, The rubber market is particularly bad. He is a member of the famous Fly Fishers’ Club in London, one of the most exclusive fishing clubs in the world. Mr. Pickthall is of opinion that New Zealand is not sufficiently advertised in Ceylon. Numbers of planters would take a holiday to the Dominion if they knew more about it. He will go to Rotorua, Taupo, and South Canterbury for fly-fishing, and later pay a visit to the Bay of Islands in search of swordfish. • • • Captain A. C. W. Innes, formerly of the Irish Guards, has come to New Zealand to do some trout-fishing. He is accompanied by Mrs. Innes. They will visit Taupo, and if sufficient time is offering they will go north to the Bay of Islands. Captain Innes says that iu London everyone remarks, “You must fish iu New Zealand.” The distance, he thinks, keeps a large number of people away. But for the five weeks’ trip from England, thousands of people would come out for the fishing season.

Mr. George Jones, trainer for the well-known Hawke's Bay sportsman, Mr. W. H. Gaisford, returned after taking Commendation to Australia.

Dr. A. McGregor Grant and Mrs. Grant have been on a holiday visit to Australia. Dr. Grant, who attended some race meetings, commented on the wonderful success of New Zealand horses in Australia this year. Everyone was asking: “How do they do it?"