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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 101, 2 May 1938, Page 10

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WHO'S WHO ON BOARD t m TRADE RECESSION IN U.S. WOULD AFFECT AUSTRALASIA Favoured agnin by pleasant conditions in the Tasman Sea, the Matson linor M:nipo-,a reached Aih-kland from Sydney and .\r<-l i ion mo on schedule time tills innniiii,'. When .-lie cnmfi up the grey-ccilingr-d linrbmir l In- ;iir whs liitingly i-olil, but not rul(! iMiuiigli to daunt the rriHiiy who lined the decks. Several commented on tlie city's setting of natural scenic beauty. One of them was Jlr. C. -A. Hutchinson, United .States consul at Adelaide. At home, in Diiluth, Minnesota, navigah'liiidl terminal <if the Great Lakes, -Mr. 11 iiichinsoii spends much of hits time rim-ing vacations Iwliing. But after "not iiciirly long enough' , visits of only one day in Auckland lie is determined to return here. ".After this I will save my vara t ions and come to New Zealand — everyone bus heard about the fiehing here, and I want to try it,' , he said. 31r. Iliileliinpon, after assignments of nearly two yenrs enrh in Tokyo and Adelaide, is revi.-iting America for tho first time in J'onr years. Managing director of a felt and textile firm operating on a large scale through Xcw Zealand, Australia, South Africa and India, Mr. H. Van dc Veldc is paying an annual visit to his company's interests in the Dominion.

Place in World Trade. deferring to tho threatened trade recession in the United States, Jie said that should it eventuate it would have «t direct effect on tho economic conditions in Australia and New Zealand owing to t'lie amount of finance controlled by America and its place in world trade. America's trade state, he said, reflected conditions, bait>meter-like, the world over. He, however, considered the prospocte of arresting backward tendencies were good. Naturally New Zealand and Australia were bound up in the prices of raw materials, as opposed to industrial countries like England, and as long ns world conditions maintained present levels for such materials Australia and New Zealand would prosper. Mr. Arthur Marcus Loew, prominent Hollywood motion picture executive, is a through passenger for California. Mr. ]/Ocw was a passenger for Australia by the Canadian Pacific Railway world cruise- liner Empress of Britain-, but his interest in Australia necessitated his staying in the Commonwealth longer than anticipated. Retired from the British Army, and now making a world circuit, Captain M. Bates-OkUiam ie travelling through to the United States. "Hot—and Hotter."

"We have only two temperatures in rrichinopoli—hot and hotter," said Mr. H. P. Giles, who has been assistant mechanical engineer in the service of the Indian Railways Board for the past 28 yeare. The Indian railways are all controlled by the British. Before going to Tricliinopoli Mr. Giles worked in Canada for a short period. He is at present on leave, prior to his retirement from the railways service, and accompanied by Mrs. Giles he is a through passenger to San Francisco, on his way to Ensland. 8 "I'm not eure th«t I will settle down outside of India," gaid Mr. Giles. "Of all climates, Trichinopoli 13 eaid to register the hottest average in the world. It's warm all right, but if a man looks after himself the climate doesn"t do him any harm."

Though he was not prepared to comment on the political situation in India, Mr. Giles said tlic trouble was much over-rated in other countries. "I don't want to say anything further aijout it than that," he concluded. Stock Disease Expert. Interested particularly in deficiency difieasee among stock, Professor M. L. Mitchell, who is professor of biochemistry at the University of Adelaide, was a through passenger to San Francisco. Hβ will undertake eix monthe' etudy at Berkeley and Stanford Universities in his subject. Laet year he acted as officer in charge of the scientific research committee at the _ Animal Malnutrition Laboratory. "Without any more facts in hand, apart from the brief notices I have seen in the newspapers, I could not comment on the facial eczema epidemic you have in this country," said Professor Mitchell. "New Zealanders, however, have been eo successful in combating, other menaces that I have no doubt thie trouble will be overcome shortly." "Impregnable" Base. "Chinese are all good prospects for insurance in the Malay States, but we don't do much with the native population," eaid Mr. J. B. Stevenson, an in•tirance agent from Singapore, who is fcoiind for England via the United States, on furlough. "Insurance agents are paid about £30 a month expense money and retainer, and they get good commissions on all business. A reasonably good man should earn anything over £120 a month, but one must be able to speak the common dialect—and then there is the trouble of getting appointments. It is not an easy job." Asked what his opinion was about the Singapore base, Mr. Stevenson said, "We are all certain that it is impregnable, but I couldn't tell you if the Japanese have the same idea. Aβ far ae we arc concerned over there, however, it ha 3 boomed business. The more there are in receipt of salaries or wagee the better the trade."

He said there wa= never any trouble pbout unemployed Europeans in the Malay State*. When they were out of n job they wore sent home again. "After ten years nf service in the East, divided between Java, Siam and Singapore, I ran truthfully say that I enjoy life, , ' Mr. Stevenson concluded.