AORANGI IN PORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 8

AORANGI IN PORT.

UNEVENTFUL TRIP. PROMINENT PASSENGERS. Arriving from Sydney tliis moraine, i the Canadian-Australasian R.M.M.s! i Aorangi berthed at the western side i of the Prince's wharf, whence she is to , sail for Vancouver, via Suva and Honolulu, at 11 a.m. to-morrow. Fine weather was experienced during the crossing of the Tasman, and the voyage was uneventful. After 15 years in business in Melbourne, during which time he has not revisited his native city, Mr. C. H. Bassett, formei ly of Auckland, returned by the vessel to go into business here. A through passenger by the vessel is Mr. W. L. Brennan, late of the Central Australian Customs staff at Canberra, who is going to New York on a four years' appointment to relieve Mr. W. T. Turner as one of the two Australian Customs representatives in that city. Mrs. Peter Tait, of Melbourne, is on her way to Vancouver to join a son', who is 'returning from Cambridge, University. Sir Colin Fraser. a director of the Broken Hill Proprietary, Limited, is travelling to Suva, accompanied bv Messrs. M. B. Hamer and G. Beresford. Lady Massy,-Greene, wife of a former Minister of Customs of the Commonwealth Government of Australia, is a through passenger. Accompanied by a son and a daughter, she is travelling to London. Mr. T. C. Alston, a director of the Kauri Timber Company, the National Bank of Australasia, and the Northern Steamship Company, is a through passenger, and is en route to Great Britain on a business trip. \Jr. S. W. Gullett and Mrs. Gullett, of Toorak, Melbourne, are travelling to New York and will be returning to Australia, via South American ports and the Panama Canal. Mr. Gullett, an industrial engineer, expects to be back in Melbourne by Christmas. The representative of the Hudson and Essex Motor Car Corporation in Australia. Mr. A. R. Jones, accompanied by Mrs. Jones, is bound for Canada on a holiday visit. Mr. E. C. B.- Midlane left the vessel at Auckland for the purpose of transacting business in New Zealand. He is a director of Midlane Brothers, Limited, a large furniture firm in, Australia specialising in certain lines. On his way back to Chicago, the Very Rev. A. Pelletier, provincial of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers in Canada and U.S.A., who has been visiting the house of the order in Melbourne, is a through passenger by the Aorangi.