ON THE AORANGI.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 235, 4 October 1937, Page 8

ON THE AORANGI.

GOOD TASMAN TRIP. TWO OTHER LINERS SIGHTED. PERSONALITIES ON BOARD. After a good trip, the liner Aorangi arrived at Auckland this morning from Sydney with 222 passengers. The weather wan unfavourable on the first night out, but after that there was a smooth sea. At 3.4."> j>.in. on Saturday the Awatea, westward bound, was passed, and at 9.45 on Saturday night the Monterey, also on her way from Auckland to Sydney, was sighted. When the Awatea was sijrhted the Aorangi was about three hundred miles west of the Three Kings. Mr. R. O. C. King, a veterinary officer of the Department of Agriculture in Xew South Wales, is on his way to the United States to make a study of diseases in stock. He will also visit Canada to see the main research stations. The Department's work in Xew South Wales, he said, was assisted by the Australian Dairy Cattle Research Association. One subject that he would investigate, he said, was contagious abortion in cattle. He expects to be away for about a year.

On his way to Washington to attend an engineering conference, at which soil corrosion problems will be discussed, is Mr. C. M. Longfield, a member of the Victorian State Electricity Commission. His particular interest in this conference will be in that section which will concern the damage caused to underground cables and pipes in the operations of electric railways and tramways — a pressing question in Melbourne and other centres.

A system of control different from that in New Zealand was to be found in the working of the commission, Mr. Longfield revealed. The body, which controlled practically the whole of the generation and distribution of electricity, as well as the manufacture of briquettes from brown coal, was not a Government Department, although its members were appointed, by the State. It had a manager to control activities along the lines of the policy fixed by the commission. One of the chief power sources was tho large steam station on the brown-coal field at Yallourn, while a scheme on the Kiewa River was about to be developed.

Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Crickmer, 'with their daughter, Miss J. M. Crickmer, are travelling to London. Mr. Crickmer is Melbourne manager of the Bank of Australasia. Lieutenant W. McKinnon, R.N.Z.A., returned to Auckland after undergoing a four months' field artillery refresher course at the School of Artilhery, Sydney.