ON THE NIAGARA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 5

ON THE NIAGARA.

RETURNING NEW ZEAXANDERS

BUSINESS MEN AND TOURISTS.

There were only 393 passengers on board the mail steamer Niagara when she arrived at Auckland from Sydney this morning. Of that number 119 were for New Zealand. Good weather was experienced on the run across the Taeman, but the vessel's arrival in port was delayed a little by a fog which came up as she was taking on the pilot outside Eangitoto Reef. The Niagara will leave for Vancouver, via way ports, at 11 a.m., to-morrow.

Many of the through passengers are business men and tourists who are returning to America and England, after having visited New Zealand and Australia. Most of those who landed here are returning New Zealanders, who have either been on business trips to Australia or have come back to settle in the Dominion,

Mr. C. B. Plummer, an Auckland business man who is interested in music, returned after a business trip to Sydney and Melbourne. He eaid most of the better-class picture theatres in the Australian cities were employing orchestras of from 17 to 18 performers. Apart from relieving unemployment, the orchestras had the effect of brightening the performances considerably. In Sydney he went to hear a violin recital given by Miss Ray Fox in the conservatorium hall. Miss Fox originally came from Hamilton, and she had been trained the last six years by some of the beet violin teachers in the world. "Artistically she is "one of the finest performers I have heard for some time," said Mr. Plummer. He recalled that Miss Fox had done her groundwork in Adelaide, whence many good violinists had come, notably Miss Daisy Kennedy. Mr. Lang's Unpopularity. Mr. A. W. Boucher, of Speddings, Ltd., returned after a 'business trip. He said there was no more hated man in Australia to-day than Mr. J, T. Lang, Premier of N.S.W. Even the workers were turning against him. "If it were not for his bodyguard something would happen to him," said Mr. Boucher. Among the passengers were: Mr. C. S. Davis and Mr. 11. D. Davis, London tourists who will see New Zealand before joining the Monowai for America; Dr. I. Donglas Cook, of Melbourne, going to England; Major A. Ritchie, a Victorian grazier, and Mrs. Ritchie and Mrs. P. Holt, visiting New Zealand before going to America and Europe; Mrs. K. R. Sargood and her eon, who have come to tour New Zealand; and the Rev. Canon K. J. P. Bickersteth, headmaster of a boys' secondary school in Sydney, on his way to Vancouver on holiday. Returning to the United States are Mr. R. H. Hockn, New York agent, who is "returning home; Mr. S. M. Berger, foreign representative of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Company, who has been on a visit of inspection to New Zealand and Australia; Mr. Harry McLearie, who is interested in the meat export trade, and Miss McLearie; and Mr. ClarkeWilliams, an executive of General Mortons, Ltd. Captain A. T. Norton, of the Union Company's Hauraki, who has been on a holiday in Australia, has returned to resume command of his ship. Mr. F. C. Dewar and Mr. W. Fraser, directors of New Zealand Perpetual Forests, Ltd., returned from Sydney. Mr. F. Pettig, a director of the Carl Zeiss Company, in Jena, Germany, is on a business visit to New Zealand.