FROM VANCOUVER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 283, 30 November 1931, Page 10

FROM VANCOUVER.

NIAGARA ARRIVES.

PERSONALITIES ABOARD

TOURISTS AND BUSINESS MEN,

With a passenger list totalling 233, the R.M:e. Niagara arrived at Auckland from Vancouver just after noon to-day and berthed at the Prince's^ wharf an hour later. Several New Zealanders came home from business and pleasure trips, and the liner afso brought a number of tourists. The Niagara met bad weather for the first five days, but after Honolulu was left behind the weather was good.

Mr. A. St. Clair Brown, of Auckland, came home from a holiday trip to many parts. He visited Java and enjoyed a motor tour through England and Scotland. He stayed in Canada for a time. For the first time in nineteen years Mr. Will A. Campbell, owner and editor of the Helena "Independent," Montana, U.S.A., is on holiday. He has relatives in Napier, whom he will, see for the first time. Mr. Campbell will join the Niagara aagin when she comes back from Sydney, so that he will spend two weeks in the Dominion. With the idea of establishing a smelting works about 800 miles from Townsville, Australia, Mr. Lewie Plass, assistant chief engineer of the American Smelting and Refining Company, M laso, Texas, is a through passenger to Sydney. The project, he says, will cost about 20,000,000 dollars. "Though We Were Immune." Three New York representatives of •the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., Messrs. L. B. Levi director, E. A. Callaman and b.L. Luccock, are on their way. to the headquarters of the company, at Melbourne, in answer to an urgent call. It is five years since Mr. Levi visited headquarters. "We in America thought that we were immune from any form of depression, •but the depression is affecting ue just as much as anybody else," said Mr.' Levi. "The only country that seems to be holding its own at all is France". We find feeling the depression, so that* naturally we have a sympathetic feeling for New Zealand and Australia. But we do feel, because of its general soundness and soli*ty, that New Zealand shoirid recover, probably more quickly than any other country." Captain T. V. Hill, master of the Niagara, is about to have his first holiday in ■ two years. When the vessel reaches Sydney, he will l leave her for eight weeks, while she does the next round trip. , Ex-Mayor of New Lynn Returns. Among the New Zealanders who arrived home were Mr. S. Larkin, of Auckland; Mr, and Mrs. S. E. D.'Neill, of Dunedin; Mr. J. C. Begg, sheep farmer, of Otago; and Mrs. Begg; Professor H. H. Corbin, formerly professor of forestry at Auckland University College; Mr. H. ,A. Horrocks, Mr. R. P. Worley and Mr. C. F. Gardner, ex-Mayor of New Lynn. Through passengers included:—Mr. H. Beinssen, wool buyer, of Sydney; Mr. A..L. Raymond, timber merchant, of Brisbane, and Mrs. Raymond; Mr. M. J. Rodney, managing director of the International Harvester Company, Melbourne; Mr. H. T. Fairley, of Products Ltd., Sydney, and his wife. Other passengers who landed at Auckland were Dr. J. W. Hunt, of Fiji, and Mr. Otto Sommer, wool buyer, of Amsterdam.