VENTURA FROM SYDNEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 258, 31 October 1931, Page 12

VENTURA FROM SYDNEY.

TASMAN LIKE A MILL POND

BUSINESSjMEN RETURNING.

"The sea was like a mill pond all the way. across, and we had to slow down several.' times. The old ship surpassed herself for speed, and the engines worked like a machine," said the chief engineer "of the Ventura, Mr. Howard George, when, the vessel arrived from Sydney this morning; The 00 passengers'on board confirmed the information as far as 'the weather was concerned, and said that the usual, deck games were much enjoyed. '-; : l ' The Ventura landed 25 passengers at Auckland and 14 will have joined the vessel before she leaves for Suva, Pago .' . Pago, Honolulu- and ' Sim ' Francisco at ; 5 p.m. to-day. "• .. Most of the New Zealand passengers aro tourists and business men, and the majority of the through passengers are returning.to the United States and way . ports after holiday tours. . j Mr. 1 E. .M. Kirsc'h, regional manager in Australia for the/ General Motors Corporation, is going on to Wellington. He expects to be .in New Zealand for about three'weeks, and will then- go back: to Sydney or on to America-. Mr. J. W. McCoy, a mining engineer of Auckland, returned froai a trip to Melbourne. Mr. W. D. Hopson, an executive; of ■ .General Motors Corporation,' who' has fo; some time been manager of General jMotorSj-. Holden's, Ltd., in Perth, West- : crn Australia, is on his way back to Detroit. He is accompanied by Lis wife and two ■ daughters. Mrs: E. Stathanv storekeeper, of Suva, is returning, to Fiji after a business trip to Australia. Mr. L. W. Lee, who has been manager 'for' the Ford Manufacturing Company of Australia, Ltd., is on his ray back to C.'inada to. tako.un an executive.position, with :.the company. Mr. Lee, who lived in Geelong, Victoria., k accompanied, by. ; his wife and two children., .. > Mr. M. Foley, . of Foley Bros., Ltd., general merchants, of Sydney, is a through: passenger to .the States accora- • pariied by his daughter, Mrs. Rita Blair.