Who’s Who on the Aorangi

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 858, 30 December 1929, Page 9

Who’s Who on the Aorangi

Carrying 391 passengers and English and American mails lor Auckland, the R.M.M.S. Aorangi arrived from Vancouver at 3 p.m. yesterday and berthed shortly before five o'clock. Excellent weather was encountered throughout the voyage, Christmas Day being celebrated under ideal conditions. An unusually large number of Auck-land-bound passengers embarked at Suva, many of them journeying to New Zealand for their summer holidays. Included among them were several members of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, who are spending their annual furlough in Auckland and Sydney. * * • Mr. G. B. Rivei-s, of the well-known McCiary range company at London, Ontario, is paying a business visit to New Zealand. The arrival of the big* Union Company liner was watched by hundreds of Sunday strollers who lined the wharves and approaches yesterday. The usual afternoon crowds were reinforced by many of Auckland’s seasonal visitors, who had plenty of time to admire the Aorangi’s trim lines as she battled slowly to her berth against a strong breeze. More than 50 prominent Canadians are included on the passenger list. Besides a party of nearly 40 bowlers there was a timber delegation, a formidable group of private businessmen, and a generous handful of Canadian tourists. • * • The Hon. Mrs. George Northcote, of South Devon, is visiting New Zealand on holiday, and will stay with relatives in Canterbury. * * * Lady McMillan, widow of the late Sir William McMillan, formerly a prominent figure in Australian politics, is returning to Sydney after visiting her relatives in Chicago. * * * Mr. John Dunn, who claims to be one of the six best violin players in the world, is on his way to Sydney to fulfil Australian engagements. He intends to visit New Zealand and give a series of recitals through the Dominion.

Mr. Max Jackson, who has been cantor in the synagogues in New York for the past 14 years, is on his | way to Sydney and Melbourne where he will officiate in the synagogues there during the Jewish New Year services. He was a great personal friend of Caruso, the famous tenor, and has sung with the Lombardi Grand Opera Company and the San Carlo Grand Opera Company. Mr. Jackson was born a Russian subject, but most of his life has been spent in America and Europe. As a cantor singer he has been sent all over Europe and through Eifgland, Scotland and Canada. This is his third trip round the world, but he has never previously visited New Zealand. * * * Mr. W. A. James, New Zealand Government Agent in Vancouver, is returning to the Dominion on a business trip. He stated that New Zealand is doing a good deal of advertising throughout Canada and is getting a great deal of assistance from the two big railway companies—the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National. There is a growing desire on the part of Canadians to visit New Zealand, and the news of big-game fishing is rapidly assisting to attract them. Another thing which attracts Canadians to New Zealand is that they can leave their own country in the winter and in a few weeks enjoy summer months in the Dominion » » * In America 1 heard people say that New Zealand was off the coast td' -Silica, said Mr. J. M. Hyams, who has returned from a trip to England Europe and America. He deplored the fact that New Zealand is not better known abroad. In Europe, he said, the Dominion was quite unknown, and even in England there were people who still imagined it was part of Australia. In almost every country in Europe Mr. Hyams found evidence of increasing prosperity, and England was the only country where unemployment was a problem. Germany was rapidly coming back, stronger than ever. In some of the European countries there was a shortage of labour.