ULIMAROA ARRIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 65, 18 March 1930, Page 9

ULIMAROA ARRIVES.

VISITORS TO DOMINION.

VISITORS TO DOMINION. BUSINESS AND PLEASURE. 13,000 MILES TO WED. With over 260 passengers in both classes, the. Huddart, Parker steamer Ulimaroa arrived from Sydney at 9.30 this morning. Fine weather was experienced on the run across the Tasman, and the vessel brought many overseas visitors on business and pleasure bent. Some of the passengers from lands afar are visiting this Dominion for the second time. One young lady had travelled over 13,000 miles to meet her fiance, who is a New Zealander, and whom she met some months ago when he was travelling abroad. - Among those on board were Dr. G. Craig, New Zealand Comptroller of Customs, who had been on a hurried visit to Sydney which lasted three day 3. Dr'. Craig was met on board by Mr. P. D. N. Verschaffelt, Public Service Commissioner. When questioned Dr. Craig said he had nothing to say for publication, with the exception that he had been in Sydney three days and it had rained. all the time. I

BUSINESS AND PLEASURE.

13,000 MILES TO WED.

Dr. M. Axford.

Dr. M. Axford, M.R.C.S., of Auckland, was another passenger on board. Dr. Axford has been doing a three-year postgraduate course in London. Lately he was resident surgical officer at East Devon Hospital, Plymouth.

Mr. J. T. Thompson, managing director of the T. and G. Mutual Life Insurance Company, has come across to have a look at the company's new offices being erected in Auckland. Mr. Thompson is. accompanied by Mr. H. W. Mclvor, of the firm of A. K. Henderson, architects, Sydney. One of the firm which made RIOI, Captain J. Dawson Paul, chairman and managing director of Bolton and Paul, Norwich, was a passenger on the Ulimaroa. Captain Paul's firiu was one of the pioneers of the steel air-craft industry. He and Mrs. Paul will spend five weeks in New Zealand. Captain Paul is not on an aviation visit to Australia and New Zealand, but simply as a representative o£ the British Wire Netting Marketing Co., of Birmingham.

Two world travellers, Mr. R. E. Fisher, of London, and Mr. S. McCall McCowan, of Edinburgh, are making their second tour of New Zealand. Mr. Fisher is bound for Wellington, where he has relatives, and, after spending a month here, will leave for Home on the Rangitiki, Mr. McCall McCowan is en route to Dunedin, where he, too, has relations.

Sporting men were well represented on the trip across, one being a cyclist who is riding round the world, several deep-sea fishermen, and some Melbourne sportsmen who have come across for trout fishing.

"Scotty" McDougall

There was a Canadian wrestler of note amongst the sports. His name i 3 Scotty McDougall. and his home town is Toronto, in Canada. McDougall, whose weight is I4st 61b, has been 18 months in Australia, and he has come across to New Zealand "looking for scalps." Yesterday week he met and defeated Leon Laborlia, the Italian, in two falls, in 16 minutes. Whilst in Australia, McDougall said he had met Pesek, Browning, Zarnoff, Meske, Webber, Heslin. and Fatarous. and the only man in Australia to beat him was Fesek.