FROM ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 9

FROM ABROAD.

"WHO'S WHO" ON AORANGI.

MAIL STEAMER'S FAST TRIP

The Union Company's R.M.m.s. Aorangi rounded North Head and dropped anchor in the Waitemata shortly after 9.30 a.m. yesterday, after a smart run from Suva of two days 22* hours. She carried only a small number of passengers, which is usual at this time of the year. She will continue her voyage to Sydney at 10 p.m. to-day.

"The time is not more opportune than at the present for trade reciprocity between Canada and New Zealand," said Mr. J. J. Herb, president of the Westminster Paper Mills, New Westminster, Vancouver, who, accompanied by his wife, arrived in Auckland yesterday by the R.M.m.s. Aorangi. Mr. and Mrs. Herb are on a holiday visit to the Dominion. Mr. Herb said there had been a remarkable change for the better in Canada during the past six months. When the Conservative Leader, Mr. Bennett, took the reins, said Mr. Herb, he aimed at the United States. There was no thought of New Zealand at the time, but now that tariff barriers had been raised against the United States, New Zealand should have her opportunitv.

Mr. F. Challingsworth, a director of Hoyt's Theatres, after spending a holiday at Honolulu, is returning to Melbourne.

Mr. A. F. Shanks, a director of Messrs. Shanks and Co., Ltd., of Barrhead, Scotland, has come to New Zealand to investigate market conditions. He intends to remain six weeks.

Mr. K. W. Culpan, with Mrs. Culpan, is returning to Sydney after an extensive stay abroad. Mr. Culpan, a native of Wanganui, spent most of his boyhood in Auckland, where he is well known, being a member of a family identified with sport. He said that economic conditions were having an extremely adverse effect on tourist traffic. In this connection the cost of living in America was no longer termed high, as the hotels were cutting prices in all directions. The United States was in the throes of unemployment, and the retail merchants were engaged in a big price-cutting war.