Who’s Who on the Aorangi

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1047, 11 August 1930, Page 9

Who’s Who on the Aorangi

The R.M.M.S. Aorangi reached Auckland last evening after an excellent trip from Vancouver. There were between 300 and 400 passengers on board, including a large number of Australians and New Zealanders who have been spending a holiday in Honolulu. Several prominent Americans were also on board on their way to spend the spring and summer months in Australia, the East and South Africa. The Aorangi carried a big consignment of English and American mails, the Southern portion of which was hurried off the liner while she was in the stream and placed on the Limited. Mr. George Niccol, the well-known Auckland shipbuilder and shipowner, • n on ;t trip to Vancouver. * * * Mr. D. Carter, Auckland manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, and Mrs. Carter, have been visiting California and Vancouver. They travelled nortli via Tahiti. Mr. Frank Graham, a prominent stockbroker of Christchurch, has been spending a holiday in Honolulu. He was accompanied by Mrs. Graham. Both Mr. and Mrs. Graham agree that Honolulu is the ideal winter holiday resort, offering everything in the way of sport, comfort and scenery. Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Riddiford, of Lower Hutt, and their two daughters, have been holiday-making In Honolulu. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Wade, of Christchurch, have also been on a trip to Hawaii. Mr. I\ N. Jeffreys. trans-Pacific manager for the Union Steam Ship Company, at Wellington, has been on a holiday trip to California and Vancouver. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter. Mr. J. W. Bixby, of Long Beach. California, is on his way to Australia and South Africa on holiday. He is accompanied by his daughter. Mr. Bixby, who deals very largely in land in South California, states that prices there are not falling, despite the general feeling of pessimism in other parts of the United States. Tariff walls may bring about a war in the future. "We are mad and you are mad.” a prominent American told Mr. Henry Berry, one of Australia s most influential business men -when they met at Honolulu some weeks ago. Mr. Berry*, who is returning to Australia, agrees with his American friend. “This continual building of high tariff walls is one of the things which may bring about a war of the future, if anything does,” he told Mr. Berry. “Let us all get together—all nations —and discuss this tariff business. if only to avoid the vexation which may lead to war.’* Mr. Berry, whose firm is largely concerned with importing, referred to the fact that Australian tariffs are tremendously high at the present time, “but so are the others against us.” he added. Trade must be reciprocal, he said. That was the only solution to the present problem. * * * . The oil fields of America and the oil refineries in England have been occupying the attention of Mr. T. M. Hartigan. chief chemist of the Shell Company of Australia, Ltd., since June of last year. He has just made an extensive tour of England and the United States and will now tour New Zealand in company with Mr. L. F. Elsby, technical adviser to the Shell Company. * * • To overcome the difficulties arising out of the Australian tariff walk several United States manufacturers’ representatives have passed through Auckland recently en route to the Commonwealth to investigate the position, and if possible to establish factories there for the manufacture of their products. On a mission of this nature is Mr. W. W. Robertson, a representative of the American manufacturers of a well-known cleanser. Mr. Robertson intimated that his firm intended to overcome the tariff difficulties by the establishing of a factory in Australia, and that in the future the New Zealand importations of this product would probably come from Australia. v * * * v Mr. C. H. Burgess, a prominent New Plymouth business man. returned from a few weeks’ holiday stay in Vancouver. Mr. B. Hewitt, accompanied by Mrs. Hewitt, returned from a business and pleasure trip to Fiji. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Henley K.8.E., a New South Wales politician, is a through passenger and is returning to Australia from a holiday visit to Honolulu. Sir Thomas found time to interview many of the municipal heads during his stay at Honolulu and speaks in glowing terms of the management of affairs there. “It is a pleasure to go to a place like that and see how it is governed,” he said. “Nearly everything there, telegraph, wireless, etc., is run by private enterprise under a franchise, and it is done most efficiently and more economically than any Government could do it. Before New Zealand or Australia enn once again come into their own they will have to leave the business to the people; I mean private enterprise under a franchise,” said Sir Thomas. * * * Bound for Australia to investigate the trade conditions are Messrs. T. Bradshaw, P. E. Verity and R. W. G. Gifford, directors of the Massey Harris Co.. Ltd., manufacturers of farm implements in Canada. * * * Mr. C. W. Rotlie. an official of the Colonial Sugar Company, of Sydney, is returning from a visit to the United States. Mr. C. S. Petrach and Mr. H. L. Hudson, two young men from New York, are on their way through the East to Cochin China. Afterward they will go big-game shooting In Nairobi.