MARAMA ARRIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 233, 3 October 1933, Page 3

MARAMA ARRIVES.

NOTABLE PASSENGERS.

INDIAN RESEARCH STUDENT.

Tho Union Steamship Company's intercolonial steamer Mara ma arrived this morning from Sydney with a total of 140 passengers. The crossing was uneventful, with line weather and calm seas all the way.

A research student of the University of London arrived in continuation of his world tour examining credit and market organisation ill tho various countries. He is Mr. A. X. Qureshi, M.A., of the University of Punjab, a fellow of the Royal Economic Society, and post-gradu-ate student of the London School of Economics. Mr. Qureshi, who is travelling on a scholarship awarded by the University of London, intends to spend over a month in the Dominion interviewing those connected with the dairy industry, ami studying agricultural development. On his return to London he will complete another two years' studies and sit for his Ph.D. (Economies) degree. After leaving New Zealand he will visit Australia again and then return to London via South Africa. Mr. M. Rudd, assistant manager for the Union S.S. Company at Auckland, accompanied by Mrs. Rudd, returned after spending a holiday in Australia.

Mr. I. D. Cameron, mining engineer, a graduate of the Otago School of Mines, who is interested in gold mining ventures in Queensland, has come across to spend a holiday with his people in Dunedin. For several years Mr. Cameron was on the staff of the Mount Isa mine. He said that there was much activity in mining throughout the Commonwealth and more scientific methods were being adopted. _ . South African Tourists.

I Dr H. Kramer, accompanied by his son and Mr. V. Schwartz, solicitor of Capetown, have come to New Zealand for a brief holiday tour. They intend motoring through the North Island with a view to seeing as much of the country as possible. Dr. Kramer said he had heard from New Zealandcrs resident in South Africa such glowing accounts of the scenery of the Dominion that He and his party had determined to pay it a visit during tho course of a world

Messrs. D. Leys, Auckland manager, L. Brown and J. JR. Trayes, of the Fox Film Corporation, returned after attendin «• a film convention in Sydney Mr. J. M. Gamble, with his wife and family, arrived from the Straits Sett ements to take up duties as cable engineer at the Central Post Office.. Mr. Gamble is a New Zealander who left in 1918 and went to the cable station at Cocos Island. He is to remain in Auckland indefinitely, and will attached to the cable ship Recorder when she is commission. Auckland representative of the United Steel Co., Ltd., and William Cook and Co., Ltd -re rope manufacturers, London, returned aftei a business visit to Englan . that the recent imposition of tanti duties on importations of European steel had resulted in substantially increased activity in the British Mass production plants piit down du„ the war, which had been lendered almost idle by foreign competition, were now able to compete with the cheap European product, and were steadily increasing their outputs. Electric weldi„cr continued Mr. Heath, was coming into use in England, replacing the rivetincr system 'in the erection of ferroconcrete buildings. Building regulations in England were stringent, and wider use of the new method might be expected in Australia and New Zealand than in England.