ON THE AORANGI.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 8

ON THE AORANGI.

NEW ZEALANDERS RETURN.

PERSONALITIES ON VESSEL.

MANY THROUGH PASSENGERS.

After a fine weather passage from Sydney, the R.Mjn.s. Aorangi arrived at Auckland early this morning, and berthed at Prince's wharf shortly before nine o'clock. She carried the usual mail, and a large number of passengers, including doctors returning from the medical conference in Sydney, and many New Zealanders. Also on the passenger list were the names of interesting personalities from the Continent of Europe, Australia and tho United States of America. The manager of the passenger department of tho Auckland branch of the Union Steamship Company, Mr. E. Wing, returned after a visit to Sydney extending over a month. He was accompanied by Mrs. Wing. • Mr. George Ashley, chairman of the traffic committee of tho Auckland City Council, and a member of the Auckland Transport Hoard, combined business with pleasure during a sojourn in Melbourne and Sydney. Ho inquired into traffic conditions in the Commonwealth, and tho information he secured will be presented in a report to the City Council in the immediate future. Mrs. Ashley travelled with her husband. Popularity of Artificial Silk. Mr. Roche, of Ladies' Mile, Remuera, interested himself in agricultural pursuits while in Australia on a combined holiday and business trip. He was in the Commonwealth for five months. Mr. Fred A. Bierman, manager of Collingbourno Mills, San Francisco, arrived for the purpose of inspecting branches of his firm in New Zealand. Mr. Bierman is interested in the manufacture of cefjjjon threads and artillcial silk. He statecPthat the artificial silk industry was making great progress. His firm made silk, but it was being found that the demand for it was decreasing, whereas that for the artificial product was increasing. The latter was very satisfactory in every w r ay, as it was fast in colour, had an excellent lustre, and was easy to work. Mixed with wool, it was used extensively for hosiery, women's garments of all kinds, and men's underwear.

Mr. A. W. Heyes, a Tooley Street dairy produce merchant, is returning to England after spending six months in Australia and New Zealand investigating conditions of the dairying industry. Mr. E. J. Tait, director of J. C. Williamson. Ltd., is on his way to the United States and England, looking for new productions, while his brother, Mr. J. 11. Tait, came as far as New Zealand with him on business for the firm. Mr. 11. Thor, an industrialist from Germany, is a through passenger. He has been visiting Australia. Drs. E. H. Williams, of Dunedin, J. W. Hall, of Whangarei, Appleby, of Whakatane, and W. Stanley Wallis, of Rotorua, returned after attending the Australasian Medical Congress at Sydney. Visitor from Switzerland. "I have come on holiday to this wonderful country of yours, which I am told is the country that resembles Switzerland most," said Mr. Louis Dapples, of Vcvey, Switzerland, the home of Nestles milk. Mr. Dapples is chairman of Nestles Milk Co. and a member of the Swiss Alpine Club. He intends to try hig skill on New Zealand's glaciers. Mr. Dapples commented briefly on the fact that Switzerland a year ago completed the electrification of the railways, saying that his country was the first in the world to achieve that object. An American who has been 15 years in Sydney, Mr. A. W. Boynton, is a through passenger to Vancouver. Hβ is the manager of the Wylie B. Jones Advertising Agency, and is accompanied by his wife and daughter. Interested in Motoring. Mr. C. Willsford, who is distributor for Nash Motors in New South Wales, is bound for the United States, where he proposes to visit the Nash works. He is making a quick trip between Australia and America. Mr. Willsford said that in the Commonwealth New Zealand was regarded as very prosperous in view of the fact that it sold a greater number of cars in proportion to its population than Australia.