ON THE ZEALANDIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 97, 26 April 1932, Page 3

ON THE ZEALANDIA.

PASSENGERS FROM SYDNEY. POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA. MR. LANG IN A TIGHT CORNER. One hundred and fifty-three passengers arrived at Auckland by tlie Huddart Parker steamer Zealandia from Sydney this morning. The vessel experienced an uneventful passage. Mr. C. R. Richards, of the sales execu- | tive of the Vacuum Oil Company, witli headquarters at Melbourne, arrived on a business trip. He will visit the main centres in both islands. Mr. A. T. Tyler, general manager at Sydney of Park Davis, Limited, is on a short holiday visit. He was appointed to the Sydney ofiice of the company from London twelve months ago. Accompanied by his wife, Mr. F. Stone, well known among travellers as the chief steward of the Ulimaroa, arrived for a holiday at Rotorua. Mr. Stone has been in the company's employ for 33 years. Mr. N. R. Chapman, secretary of the Renown Collieries, returned to Auckland after a three weeks' visit to Sydney. Like other Aucklanders who have recently spent a holiday in Australia, he was unable to see any great evidence of the prevailing depression. "I think that bad times have been with the Sydney people so long that they have now got used to them," he said. Touching 011 politics, Mr. Chapman said that the general opinion in Sydney was that Mr. Lang would have to go to the people in the near future. It was generally felt that his appeal to the Privy Council, on the abolition of the N.S.W. Upper House, would go against him, and in that case his position would be hopeless, as the Legislative Council would not carry any of his measures. In regard to Victoria, the feeling in Sydney was that within a few weeks there would be a Nationalist Government. Much-travelled Man. A much-travelled man is Mr. R. E. Fisher, a director of the firm of Pommery and Greno, Limited, of London, who arrived by the Zcalandia. Though he has been in the Dominion 011 business before this time he is on a holiday. He intends to spend some three months. A good deal of his life has been spent in the East, in India and Ceylon. He said that things were improving in India, both from the viewpoint of politics and of business. The present Viceroy, the Earl of Willingdon, was doing much to help He was both popular and efficient, and by the force of liis personality and his tactful handling of a difficult situation was restoring confidence to India. Business was beginning to right itself, partly as the result of the restoration of confidence. It did not always do to trust I cabled accounts of riots in the East, he [added. Often they were exaggerated, and residents of a district would read of a I disturbance there of which they themselves had been ignorant.