DOMINION VISITORS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 305, 21 September 1936, Page 8

DOMINION VISITORS

Arrivals at Auckland by the Monterey By Telegraph—Press Auckland, September 20. With 329 passengers, the Matson liner {Monterey arrived to-day from Sydney after an uneventful trip. Mr. Harold Gatty, the well-known American aviation expert, who is interested in the formation of the trans-Paciflc air service, arrived on a business visit. He will go to Wellington to-ntorrow. Another prominent passenger was Brigadier-General H. W. Lloyd, a member of the Australian Legislative Assembly, who is visiting New Zealand in an attempt to form a branch of the new peace organisation known as Bri-tish-American co-operation. The idea behind this body, he said, was to make the English-speaking peoples and their Governments realise the necessity of forming an alliance with the United States for mutual protection purposes. The European situation had been responsible for its formation in England, and since then branches had _ been formed in America, Australia and'other English-speaking countries. In Australia it had the approval and the official endorsement of the Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons. Mr. Lloyd will visit Wellington, where he is to meet members of the Government. Mr. R. J. Anwyl, manager for Thomas Cook and Sons, Limited, in Australia and New Zealand, arrived on a business visit.