ULIMAROA FROM SYDNEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1932, Page 8

ULIMAROA FROM SYDNEY.

RETURNING HOLIDAY-MAKERS. After a calm and uneventful trip from Sydney, the Huddart-Parker steamer Ulimaroa dropped anchor in the stream shortly after one o'clock this afternoon and berthed at the Prince's wharf. She had 85 passengers in all, and one stowaway, a lad of about 17 years, who belonged to Wellington. Mr. H. M. Rogerson returned after a holiday in Melbourne and Sydney with his wife. Mr. W. H. Cowper, cf Christchurch, manager in New Zealand for Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co., Ltd., returned after a short visit to Sydney and Melbourne. Mr. G. H. Abel also returned after a holiday. ' Mr. A. Mac Lean has returned to New Zealand after 17 years. He will "just .potter about for a month or two and then he will wander off agam. Mr. MacLean went fo the Boer War, and he stayed in South Africa for 31 years. He is interested in diamond and gold mining in the interior. Often, he said, when present-day miners were discovering "new" mines, they would come across old workings, so old that their origin was lost in antiquity. It was the country in which. Solomon, of Biblical fame, . sous&tjajidJnomiie fiEfe '