MONTEREY'S PASSENGERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 253, 25 October 1932, Page 3

MONTEREY'S PASSENGERS.

CANON FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

RADIO INDUSTRY LEADER,

Among the passengers on the Monterey, which arrived from Sydney this morning, was Canon Cyrill J. Wyche, of Orahaiiiestown Cathedral, South Africa, who is making a holiday trip to Australia and New Zealand. He will visit his cousin, Mrs. A» Home, at Gisborne. He has spent many years with the natives ill the south-east of Africa, and his knowledge of their habits and languages waa availed of when a committee was appointed five years ago to revise the edition of the Kaflir Bible in the Xosa language. This committee comprised a number of denominations, and the Bible serves a population of about a million. As an illustration of the effect of South Africa remaining on the gold standard, he mentioned that the exchange on £200 had paid for his trip to New Zealand. Mr. Charles E. Forrest, managing director of International Radio Corporation, Sydney, is on a business visit to the Dominion, and will remain for six or seven weeks. He said that the number of listeners' licenses was increasing fast, throughout the Commonwealth. For the last year or two new licenses had aggregated 100,000 per annum. He attributed this to good broadcasting and reasonably-priced receiving sets.

Major N. Stewart Dawson is on his way back to London, after visiting his linn's branches in the Comlnoiiwealth.

Mr. G. H. Birch returned to Auckland after paying a business visit to Sydney and Melbourne. He said trade was perceptibly reviving, and the importers were favourably impressed with the Ottawa agreements. The Monterey carried just on 200 passengers, of whom half were for Auck' land. The latter included Mr. DundasSmith, a prominent shipping man of Sydney, and Consul for Chile; Mr. S. (I, Smallbone, managing director, Morns Motors, Ltd., Oxford; Mr. F. H. Carlson, director of the Atlantic Oil Company, Sydney; Messrs. K. H. Harrowell and D. S. McDougall, of the executive of William Coopei" and Co., Ltd., Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. H. Frost, of Rcinuera, and Mr. T. A. O'Brien.

The Monterey sails this evening for Los Angeles, and 31 passengers have booked from Auckland.