FROM AUSTRALIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 298, 17 December 1935, Page 9

FROM AUSTRALIA.

LINER MONTEREY ARRIVES. SOME PROMINENT PASSENGERS. i After a smooth passage the Matson liner Monterey arrived at Auckland this morning with a big passenger list. Mr. W. Cheeseman. manager of Woolfrorths, Ltd., at Sydney, is making a pleasure trip to Auckland. Sir Frank Gavin Duffy, formerly Chief •Tustice of the High Court of Australia, is on a holiday visit to NewZealand. Sir Harry Moxam, accompanied by lis son, is a through passenger. Mr. G. W. Hutchison, of Auckland, Jeturned from a business trip to Sydney. Mr. A. A. Struthers, a member of the executive staff of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, is making a holiday visit to Xew Zealand. His headquarters are at Abbadan, at the head of the Persian Gulf, where the temperature goes as high as 120 in the shade. Mr. Struthers said that Abbadan was quite a progressive place with a population of 50.000, but of that number only about 2000 were Europeans. It was a rapidly developing port, oil being conveyed from the wells 180 miles away by a, pipe line.

A prominent business man and exLord Mayor of Adelaide. Sir Wallace Bruce, is on a six months' business trip to America and Great Britain. He is a director of many Adelaide companies and figures prominently in local body life, being connected with the Harbour Board, the Tramways Board and the Chamber of Commerce.

Tie passengers included the members of the M.C.C. cricket team which is to tour Xew Zealand, and the Australian professional golfers' team which is on the way to the United States.