ON THE MONTEREY

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 9

ON THE MONTEREY

WHO'S WHO ABOARD. HOLIDAY TRAVELLERS. PAINTER OP PORTRAITS. Making" a holiday round trip on the Matson liner Monterey, which, arrived at Auckland to-<lay from San Francisco, is the master of another of the company's liners. He is Captain Conrad Hubbenette, of the Matsonia, which plies between Honolulu and the mainland. I nder the command of Captain E. R. Johanson, the Monterey journeyed through pleasant weather. Her passengers include General James G. Harbord. who had a distinguished career in the I nited States artoy and is now chairman of the board of directors of the Radio Corporation of America. General Harbord has been invited to attend a conference of the Institute of Radio Kngineers of Australia. He is accompanied by Mr. E. S. Colling, of the corporation's public relations division.

People are still not buying luxuries in the way that they used to, said Mr. AA illiam I. Rosepfeld, a New York diamond merchant, who is making a holiday cruise with liis wife. He added that liis own firm dealt largely with the finest type of. gems, and this business had been severely affected by the depression. "However, boys and girls will get married, and they do have to have diamond engagement and wedding rings," was the optimistic note he struck. Mr. B. Silbert has come to New Zealand to paint Maori portraits. He has been commissioned by the Honolulu Academy of Arts to paint portraits of native people in the South Seas, and was painting in Fiji before he came on to Auckland. The Rev. Father . .lames McSweenev is returning to Australia after a visit to Ireland. He said that one could notice a number of improvements after an absence of 10 years. The country was more settled and the living conditions bad greatly improved. Father McSweeney revisited Macrron. in County Cork, his birth-place. Mr. W. 11. Mayer, who is a merchant at Evanston. Illinois, commented upon the generally satisfactory conditions of business in the United States. N.Z. Butter in Canada. '"Canadian farmers on the whole are not in bad shape," remarked Mr. T. A. Russell, head of a firm of agricultural implement manufacturers, who will represent the Canadian National Exhibition (Toronto) at the Royal Sydney Show. He is accompanied by his wife and their daughter, son and daughter-in-law. ''There have been difficult times in some sections of the community.'' said Mr. Russell. '"All but 15 per cent of Saskatchewan's wheat crop failed last season through a recurrence of drought conditions, and although the crops in other part? of the country were good, the Saskatchewan loss set the total value back." Mr. Russell mentioned that just as lie was leaving Canada the first part of the recent record shipments of New Zealand butter was being released there. Canada tended to be subject to a winter shortaye. and when that occurred she tried to take as much from New Zealand as she could. Six Years in India. After being stationed for six vears in India Mr. A. P. Slocum arrived to take up the position of New Zealand manager of General .Motors Acceptance Corporation. He was accompanied by his wife and son. Mr. Slocum came "to know India thoroughly during hi« stav there It was a country that was continnallv improving and progressing, and he believed that conditions from the viewpoint ~f the British Government were more favourable at the moment than at any time in the past six years. When he first went there Gandhi and his followers were quite active, but things were now very quiet. Mr. Howard Milholland, an American Jiunioiir.t and impersonator, and Miss a Garcia, a Spanish pianist, will make a concert tour of New Zealand and the Commonwealth. Mr. Milholland believe* in the entertainment value of a concert performance, and always endeavours to leave bis audience with a smile rather than a tear. Miss Garcia is bringing to New Zealand audiences some new rhythmic, colourful. Spanish compositions, many of which liaxe recently been discovered, and which *he imported front Madrid. i