Who’s Who on the Niagara

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 987, 2 June 1930, Page 11

Who’s Who on the Niagara

The Union StcAm Ship Company s truns-Pacific liner reached Auckland this morning on her way to Vancouver. There was almost a full passenger list, including many people who are travelling abroad. “As smooth as glass all the way. ' voyage across the Tasman. ‘•We left Brisbane the day before Amy Johnson arrived there, but from tho preparations which were undei - way I could well imagine the great reception she got.” said Mr. Jules Moxam, well known in Australian aviation and motoring circles, who arrived this morning en route to America. Mr. Moxam, who intended to visit the Mangere airdrome this afternoon for the purpose of keeping his hand in, was married in Brisbane last Wednesday and. accompanied by his bride, flew in one of the National Airways machines to Sydney to catch tho boat. He spoke well of the progress of flying in Australia and tho boon which the airplane had to country people, in the delivering of mails and papers. Mr. D. J. Davis, owner of the New Zealand-bred horse Phar Lip. which has won many of the Australian classic*, ami weight-tor-age events. including tho A.J.C. Derby and. more recently, the King’s Cup. arrived this morning from Svdney on a holiday visit to Auckland. He intends to attend the Auckland Racing Club’s June meet- • There is not a great deal 1 can say about Phar Lap. He is looking well and at the present time is out spelling until the spriftg,” said Mr. Davis. Captain A. Walmsley. of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, is making a tour of tho world in company with Mr. F. AV . Wentworth, a brother of Captain O. J. ’Wentworth, who was aide to camp to Sir Charles Fergusson. They will spend some weeks touring New Zealand. Colonel J. Sclater, the genial general manager of the Canadian Pacific. Railways, in Australia, is on months’ leave of absence and is on his way to the Orkney Islands, where he was bora. His last visit there was in 1913, when he was on leave from the front, m France. Colonel Sclater is accompanied by his daughter, Airs. Allan Harvey, of Sydney. They will spend some time travelling through Canada. * * * Mr. \V. J. Van Druson. a representative of the Canadian timber exporting company of H. R. MacMillan, is returning to Vancouver after making a tour of Australia. He is not happy* with the state of affairs there regarding imported Canadian timber. ♦ * * Mr. R. Linton has been invited personally by Mr. lienry Ford t-* visit America to give a demonstration «>t the new motor-car reflector which h ■ has invented. The reflector is safelystored on the Niagara and Air. Linton hopes for great things from it. * * » Messrs. F. and 11. M. Middows, if the firm of Middows Brothers. Sydney . are on an extended tour abroad. * * * The establishment of new industries in Australia is sending Air. David Kennedy on a trip to England, Europe and America. The new impost duties of the Commonwealth have had a serious effect on imported goods, so Mr. Kennedy proposes to expand his manufactures in Australia and hopes to obtain much useful information abroad. * • » Mr. C. Edwards, a banker from the United States, Air. and Mrs. E. Kramer, graziers from Victoria, and Air. anil Airs. D. Wilson, of Sydney, are among others who are through passengers. Sir Stanley Fisher, Chief Justice of Ceylon, who will spend some time u New Zealand as the guest of his Excellency the Governor-General, has had an interesting career. He was President of the District Court. Kyrcni i, Cyprus, in 1902, Puisne Judge of tho Supreme Court there in 1911 and Chief Justice from 1919 to 1924. For a time he was employed under the Foreign Office in Cairo and from 1924 to 1926 he was Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago and President of the West Indian Court of Appeal. Sir Stanley has been Chief Justice of Ceylon since 1926 and is retiring from that office shortly. He has published an interesting book on llie Ottoman land laws.