VARIED PASSENGERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 260, 3 November 1931, Page 8

VARIED PASSENGERS.

€N THE MAUNGANUI.

BIRDS, TORTOISES AND A FIG.

CONDITIONS IN AUSTRALIA.

In ; addition- to 128 passengers,' the Maunganui, which reached } Auckland from . Sydney this morning, brought birds, a, pedigree pig and -<six tortoises. The tortoises were accommodated in : the saloon, bar, where they became, quite friendly with --the chief' steward,.-and would -*to his' whistle,. • One allowed itself- to be handled>. quite freely. The birds consisted -of canaries, six fancy pigeons, and finches. The: boar, a large white one, had travelled all' the way' from . England. ." > •; y- *

Heavy rain was falling d uring most of the; run across the Tasman, but the sea- was calm. The Maunganui made port early this .morning and berthed at the Prince's, wharf shortly after S o'clock. ■ 1n... addition to European' passengers there, were one Indian and: four' Chinese for Auckland. ;

- Mr. W. Bottomley, well known, in. business circles .- in Wellington,'has come across to visit his firm's branches .iu New Zealand. . He said business >.was' -much brighter in Australia: and; the -general, impression in Sydney-was: that the seamen's : strike would collapse tomorrow. .. There-were evidences of a much, better "tone" throughput Australia. Mr. Bottomley will remain in Auckland for 10.days before going, on to Wellington. Subsequently he will visit Britain.

. Mr. J. Thickett, ex-principal of the Training College; at the Pa in a University,. India, has come to settle in Auckland. In 1926 he brought his family to the Dominion and they have been in residence in Auckland.

Mr. N. C. Kyle, .'of -the Prudential Assurance Co., has been appointed joint manager with Mr. G. W. Taylor in New Zealand. Mr. Kyle will take charge of the life insurance side of the business.

For the thirty-third time, Mr. J. C'. Buckingham has made the journey from England to the Dominion. He says he is one of "the old brigade," by which he rrieons that he was one who used to come to Xew Zealand in the early days for fishing,, before its fame .was blazoned abroad; "However. I am,too, old for fishing now," lie. complained.' ."All the fishing I- do,' I - iEr,s£ do from- a - bpa-t." ,