ROUGH CROSSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 219, 16 September 1935, Page 9

ROUGH CROSSING.

MONOWAI FROM N.S.W.

REPLACING THE AORANGI.

WHO'S WHO ON BOARD.

Bad -weather, ■which graduallyincreased to a gale last night, was experienced by the Union Company's mail steamer Monowai on her Tasman crossing to Auckland, where she arrived thia morning at 7.30. The Monowai is replacing the Aorangi, which is undergoing overhaul in Sydney, on the Vancouver run, and will leave Auckland tomorrow morning for Suva, Honolulu and Vancouver.

Among the passengers who landed was Mr. H. Ludowici, a director of the wellknown Australian firm, Mangrovite Belking, Ltd. He» holds an optimistic view of business conditions in Australia and of the outlook for the immediate future. The recent increase in the price of wool, he said, had made everybody happy and good rain had fallen just when it was sadly needed in the wheat belt. With Chicago brokers talking ot rheat at 4/2, the outlook for Australia, ith wool and wheat both improving, was very bright. Mr. Ludowici is on a holiday trip and will spend five weeks seeing New Zealand with a friend. Mr. S. Bovis, representative in Australia and New Zealand of the Overseas Motor Service Corporation, also arrived. Ho is not long from America, but resolutely declined to discuss conditions there. Hβ is accompanied by Mrs. Bovis. Three seamen attached to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, J. McPike, B. Grace and C. Fox, returned from a five months' gunnery course at the Melbourne Naval Training College. All three men passed their final examinations and now qualify as seamen gunners.