BEHIND TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 89, 17 April 1939, Page 8

BEHIND TIME.

MONTEREY ARRIVES.

DISPUTE WITH CREW,

DELAY IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Two days late in leaving San Francisco, as the result of a dispute which arose in that port, the Matson liner Monterey arrived at Auckland this morning after a good trip from the Pacific Coast. She berthed at Queen's wharf shortly before 11 o'clock, having been delayed in the stream by dense fog. The cause of the'dispute, it was reported on the arrival of the liner to-day, arose when objection was registered by the crew concerning their quarters on the Monterey and other ships of the line. The trouble lasted for five days and involved the Matsonia, another vessel of the company's fleet.

It wae. finally agreed to refer the dispute to arbitration. It was also stated that a "hold-up" lasting for two weeks liad been experienced on the Pacific Coast prior to the sectional trouble with the owners of the Matson liners.

American Consul. Mr. George B. Lane, American Consul at Wellington, who has been on a three months' holiday visit to the United States, wae a passenger to Auckland. "If there is a big fight over there I .cannot see how we can keep out of it," said Mr. E. A. Russell, president of the Otis Elevator Company, who, with his wife, is visiting Australia and New Zealand on a vacation trip. The opinion that the odds againet the dictator countries were too great for a war to eventuate, was expressed by a Californian insurance agent, Mr. J. A. Lindsley. With his wife he will go to Melbourne and Sydney, paying a longer visit in this country on the way back to America. Tilings in America looked very black, he added, but the tremendous pressure that was. now being brought t« bear by the democracies made him feel easier in his mind.

Mr. D. Eajajiopal is a through passenger on liis way' to Sydney to meet the Indian philosopher Krishnainurti, with whom he lias been associated for many years. Krishnannirti is on his, way to Sydney from the East and after carrying out a number of engagements in the Australian States will revisit New Zealand. He intends on this occasion to go to all the main centres.

Dr. A. S. Green, an eminent ophthalmic surgeon of San Francisco, is on his way to Melbourne, at the invitation of the Ophthalmic Society there, to give a series of lectures and demonstrations.

Aucklanders Home. After nearly two years' touring abroad, during which time they have motored thousands of miles, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Annan returned to Auckland. They went to England in 1937 by way of Australia and Africa, and made an extensive trip through the Continent. One of the most interesting of the eighte they saw was the reconstructed cathedral at Rheims, the famous structure which was damaged in the Great War. Even now, they said, the work of restoring cathedral was not quite completed.

Mr. and Mrs. Annan toured the entire coast of England and ' Scotland, and crossed the Atlantic to America in September of last year. They left San Francisco last month for Honolulu, where they spent 15 days before sailing for home.

Mr. Annan is well known In the Auckland yachting world as owner of the A class keeler Thelma.