WHO'S WHO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 230, 28 September 1936, Page 10

WHO'S WHO.

AORANGI PASSENGERS. PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN. FINANCE AND TRADE. Sketches of the delegates who arrived by the Aorangi last evening to attend the fourteenth Congress of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce at Wellington reveal that many branches of industries are represented. The "Who's who" of the latest arrivals is as follows: — The Et. Hon. Viscount Elibank, president of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire; Lord Lieutenant of the County of Peebles, Scotland; director, "Commercial Union Assurance Company, Limited; chairman, Southern Areas Electricity Corporation, Limited; chairman, Malaysian Tin, Limited; trustee, second debenture' stock, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. Mr. Arthur Aiton, C.B.E-., Derby and Derbyshire Chamber of Commerce; member of the executive committee of the federation; governing director, Aiton and Company, Limited, Derby; chairman Derby "Daily Telegraph." Mr. Hedley Miller, congress secretary. Assistant secretary of the federation. Mr. Percy Ainley, junior vice-president, Huddersfiekl Chamber of Commerce; member of the British National Committee, . International Chamber of Commerce; governing director, Job Beaumont and Son, Limited, Woodland Mills, Longwood, Huddersfleld. Alderman Sir Albert Atkey, deputypresident, Nottingham Chamber of Commerce; delegate of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce and of the Nottingham Chamber; member of the executive committee of the federation; chairman and managing director, A. R., Atkey and Company", Limited, motor engineers. Mr. F. Holgate Barber, past president, Fulham Chamber of Commerce; member of the council of the federation; chairman F. H. Barber and Company, Fulham; Mayor of Fulham, 1931. Director of Bank. Mr. P. L. Barclay, C.8.E.; vice-presi-dent and past chairman of council, London Chamber of Commerce; director of Barclays Bank, Limited, Commercial Union Assurance Company, Limited, the United Services Trustee, etc. Mr. W. M. Birks, past president Canadian Chamber of Commerce; vice-presi-dent and treasurer of the federation; past president of the Montreal Board of Trade; president, Henry Birks and Son, Montreal; director, Sun Life Assurance Company, National Trust Company and Bajik of Nova Scotia; senior governor, McGill University. Mr. Samuel W. Broadhead, Bradford Chamber of Commerce; past president, British Wool Federation; managing director, Broadhead, Revell and Company, Limited. Sir Montague Burton, Leeds Chamber of Commerce; chairman, Montague Burton, Limited, cloth and men's clothing manufacturers, Leeds. Alderman F. W. Cook, past president, Dudley Chamber of Commerce, Worcestershire; member of the executive committee of the federation; governing director, F. W. Cook, Limited, and Crown Fabric Company, Limited; vice-presi-dent, Drapers' Chamber of Trade of the United Kingdom; traffic commissioner, West Midland Division, and chairman of numerous public bodies. Mr. James T. Cook, Reading Chamber of Commerce; life managing director, Cook, Son and Company, Limited, build- | ing contractors.

' Mr. Milton V. Ely, London Chamber of Commerce; managing-director, Foster Engineering Company, Limited, London; L. G. Soan, Limited (Waterman Fount Pens); Sloan Electrical Company, Limited; chairman, A. Roberts and Company, Limited. Mr. E. Horace Holme, London Chamber of Commerce; retired manufacturer. Mr. E. Stanley Leatherby, Plymouth Chamber of Commerce; director, Costers, Limited, Plymouth and Exeter. Mr. T. Frank Matthews, president, Toronto Board of Trade; vicepresident, Canada Packers, Limited. Toronto. Mr. Frederick W. Parsons, chairman of the Provision Trades Section, London Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the London Court of Arbitration; late managing director, Reynolds, Sons and Company, Limited, and Richard Dickenson and Company, London, provision and produce merchants and importers. Mr. William Shires, past-president, Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce; chairman, James Shires and Sons, Limited, woollen and worsted cloth manufacturers and yarn spinners, and of other textile companies. Mr. T. S. • Smith, past-president, Walsall and District Chamber of Commerce; managing director and chairman, A. S. Smith and Sons, Limited, hardware manufacturers, and other companies. Mr. J. A. Stembridge, senior vicepresident, Leeds Chamber of Commerce; director, John Waddington. Limited, printers, Leeds; ex-president, British Federation of Master Printers. Mr. Bernard Sugden, past-president Spen Valley Chamber of Commerce. Clerkheaton, Yorkshire; member of the executive of the federation; chairman, William Sugden and Sons, Limited, shirt and cotton clothing manufacturers, and director of other companies. Delegates From India. Mr. S. H. Taylor, V.D., past-presi-dent Associated Chambers of Commerce. of India, and of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce; late senior director, Begg, Sutherland and Company, Limited, C'awnpore; director, Cawnpore Electric Supply Corporation, Limited, Bagdad Light and Power Company, Limited, Tanganyika Cordage Company, Limited, and of various electric supply companies in England. Mr. J. E. Emlyn-Jones, Cardiff and Newport Chambers of Commerce; man-aging-director, Emlyn-Jones, Griffin and Company, Limited; shipbrokers and coal exporters; past chairman, Cardiff and Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners' Association, South Wales Branch of Ibero-American Institute of Gr.eat Britain; M.P. for North Dorset, 19221924. Mr. Alfred Wigglesworth, delegate of London Chamber of Commerce (member of the council vice-chairman of East African Section); chairman, Wigglesworth and Company, Limited, sisal, flax, liemp and jute merchants; director, Amboni Estates, Limited, Ruvu Estates, Limited; Namagoa Plantations, Limited; Renguella Estates, Limited; chairman Imperial Institute Vegetable Fibre Committee since its inception, and member of 'the advisory council* Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and holder of the silver medal for lectures given at the society; member of the Executive Council of the Joint East African Board; member of the Advisory Committee to His Majesty's Eastern African Dependencies Trade and Information Office; member of the Advisory Council of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene; member of the council of the British Empire Producers' Organisation; member of the council of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in London. Mr. A. L. Woodhead, Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce; managing director, Huddersfield "Examiner."