ON THE RANGITANE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 277, 22 November 1934, Page 8

ON THE RANGITANE.

NOTABLE VISITORS.

ARRIVAL AT WELLINGTON. TOURS IN NEW ZEALAND. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. An exceptionally large number of notable visitors arrived at Wellington this afternoon by the motor liner Rangitane from London.

Sir James Mills, chairman of directors of the Union Steam Ship Company, Limited, is making a visit to relatives in the Dominion. He lias come principally for health reasons, and he also smilingly declined to ba interviewed. Sir James will return to London about next April. "We were here for several months last year and I am here again for the fishing," said Lieutenant-General Sir William Marshall, who is accompanied by his wife. General Marshall served in India, South Africa, France, on Gallipoli, in Salonika ''and Mesopotamia, and achieved the distinction of being mentioned in despatches seven times. "I am here just for fun and to enjoy myself," said Vice-Admiral G. W. McO. Campbell, R.N. (retired), a passenger by the liner. He was in New Zealand .30 years ago, and i» accompanied by his wife, formerly Miss M. C. Higginson, daughter of the late Mr. H. P. Higginson, of Wellington. Admiral Campbell has had a distinguished career. He was assistant director of mobilisation from 1922 to 1924, and naval aide-de-camp to the King in 1927 and 1928. Dr. R. A. Elliott, second son of Dr. J. S. Elliott, of Wellington, who has been absent from Wellington for about seven years, returned on a holiday visit. Lady Dorothy Hope-Morley, who is accompanied by Miss A. R. H. HopeMorley, is the eldest -daughter of the seventh Earl of Buckinghamshire. Sir Charles Campbell, Lady Campbell and Miss Campbell, of England, intend to visit the South Island. Other passengers included LieutenantColonel F. G. Newton and Mrs. Newton, Australia; Colonel A. E. Stewart and Mrs. Stewart, of Rallatifr. Scotland; Brigadier-General R. M. Betham. Colonel IT. P. Strong and Mrs. Strong, Captain W. H. Ilalford Thompson, Mrs. and Miss Thompson. Dr. E. Northcroft, medical officer on the Rangitane, was at one time lecturer in science at Victoria University College. Wellington, and was president of the Victoria College iStudents' Association. He left New Zealand about six years ago and qualified in medicine at Home. Mr. D. L. Dowdell. general manager in Australia of the Orient Shipping Line, who has been on periodic visits to Great Britain, said lie left Sydney via Torres Straits and returned by way of Panama to see the canal. Captain the Hon. Arthur Howard, son-in-law of Mr. Stanley Baldwin, was another interesting passenger. He has pome to see something of New Zealand, and is making his third visit. M. Armand Nihotte, Consul for Belgium. returned with his wife and family to Wellington after a six months' visit : to Belgium. When asked for his im- i iiressions of politics on the Continent, le contented himself with the reply, l ' Silence is golden." ' ' | ,