ON THE MAHENO.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 251, 23 October 1928, Page 10

ON THE MAHENO.

NEW ZEALANDERS CjQME HOME

PARS ABOUT PASSENGERS

ELECTRICAL STORM AT SEA!

Vivid, constant flashes of lightning which at times lit up the whole sky, tremendous volleys of thunder and an angry sea gave passengers,, on the Maheno a rather unpleasant &qpevience on Saturday evening. • Some' of -the; pas- 1 sengers said that it was the'WOrst lightning that they hud ever seen. Tlffe dtorm lasted from six o'clock in the evening until three the following niorniiig, and caused a good deal of concern among the women. Then the atmosphere cleared, and the vest of the trip wag iairly cAltti. The Maheno berthed at two'o'clock this' afternoon. ' • A New Zealander who his been aw&jr. from his homeland for ..nine years, jfrl. 11. E. Bullen, has come home, -again",for a holiday of three weeks. He is iiow employed by the Union ißank, Street, Sydney, and is a justice of ilie pcaco of that city. He is on a visit to" liis people and will be staying with Mr. Harold Schmidt, "Mount Eden. .

Vice-president of the Australian'^-.Re-' turned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial, League, Mr. L. A. Robb, a New Zca- .« lander, who left his native Wanganui in-"; 11)12, lias arrived with his wife and' child on a visit to his people. Mr. Robb proposes firstly to goto R'ritqriui,.'Wien to Wanganui, and later to Wellington, where ho will catch the mail boat back to Sydney in about a month's time. 'Mr. Robb will do some, work while,he is hcl'c. Ilis league is attempting to get'tlfe New, Zealand Government to givis". a, preference on dried fruits."' 1 /■ '-Hfe says that most of the exported'ivttit tralia is grown by returned he thinks that Australia, being &®rlfcish country, should bo given )>r6fe|'fcn^;%efore California. He thinks thei»;;j§ a sense of loyalty that these matters. Another interesting, aspect of the league's "work, said Mi.! Robb, was their attempt to got a War Pensions Appeal Board established. league had had a great fight with the' Government to put the board on a'tfooting, and at last JMr. Bruce,:&%sti*£ ; - lian Premier, had promised: to establish' an appeal board. While in New Zea-! land Mr. Robb'will «o' into the wor&ifigs'/ of the New Zealand Appeal Bohrd so 1 that he will have some concrete facts to place before the Australian "Govtermntfni when he gets back. v* Back -From the CongfMS ~ Mr. M. J. Sheahan,; district .'treasurer, of the Hibernian Lodge, returned: to-day from Sydney, where he took part-in theprocessions and services of the national Eucharistic Congress'*;. Heiiisi much impressed with what he saw at that great gathering .which; he characterised as the greatest demonstration'offaith ever made under the Southern Cross. ''li

Sister Mary Magdaline AM SjsW BenigmiS; of the Order of. liie-'Sisltirs fof* Mercy, Dunedin, returned •Rev. Brother Colombo, Brother Cuthbert, of the vM«> returned W. New *,Z^lattd\fto -day' finishing their eighteen moUths' afeviti«e at Mettagong, Southern : $outh Wales./'/Brother hajjs from Wellington, wil'lltesita 'thfe; staff- of ithe •Strlet • Effects DfiErice-cuttin& / "England led the world in/^fe v ieaqiort of electrical 'goods test year, %lt looked very Well on |»per.:' Mt the cut-throat. competition -- Bi-itishyfirms ithe industry is ing living wages to -Mt alone making a profltj" said 'Mr. Bosworth, director of the Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Go., ltd;, of itondoii. "The industry js much, "too big>?or the demand, and price-cutting to .get orders is so keen that- profits are negligible. lii all eight large British .. : firm& ; wre . \e»njtpeting. Tliey have .agents jn tries throughout the world,-and machinery ;is quoted at such rrdiculouftly 'laSy figures ifchflt"one'iievev lias a getting an order that will show a fail 4 ma £gin. of,profit.'' ' Mr. Boswortli lias come from Ceylon, Singapore, -Java/and Australia, an4%Vjpy■ where -he found the agents df severi 'firms price-cutting down jtb $h{ limit:' "As a result the -skilled sWd : Tiir ; skilled workers suffer," 'he said, ftfor the industry can 50/ tc 05/ per week- 1 for a fitter, and a lal)ourer f gets only 4b f / : \tozifrfs 3Siey can't make ends meet on thatj of coursp; though' lining, is fairly cheap now, .am| most of their wives and daughters go out tft woTk. Sooner or later there will be a crash of some sort, unless, the demand .ii enormously increased." . "During his three weeks' stay in New Zealand, Mr. Bosworth will larger centres. He will bfe.at Hotel for a few days; ' : r Return .of a Jockey. ■F. McGovern, tlic well j kiiowii 3/0W land jockey, Who left, he^^tt»ft^7 i .^v' e yeai's ago, came ibaek Sidney, Jan the Maheno, and 'Vrill here till the-end of engagements/ a% the? 'wwley Club's anniversary •meeting iit Sydney ncx«fc January: Since laying . Amkjand MefToverri -has done -vVeryi; wel%;3itns&»j| ridden a good deal ifi MeSfotwfif; and Brisbane, with a satisfactory percentage of successes.' During, hi?., in Nc#- Zealand lie I "ttofj&g ,t'b- ; hurdles and on the "T -J

v . American Naval Doctor. . Dr. H. H. -Hunt, a -lieiiteiiaiflt ' United States together with Mrs. Hunt mv 'J?ago (Pago, to New Zealand for a tour of the Dominion. They will visit the thermal regions, the Waitpinp Caves, the hikes and other well-known toiirist resorts* Dr. Hunt said he had heard New Zealand's wonders spoken of . in; such term's "tTmt he decided to go back ,to America by the longest route, in 'OrderthaTlie and lm family might see everything, .'vyi