MARIPOSA PASSENGERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 August 1936, Page 8

MARIPOSA PASSENGERS

MANY AMERICANS COMING [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, August 8.

According to some of the 461 passengers brought by the Mariposa toHay, the American tourist season is i full swing, and New Zealand and •ustralia may expect heavy traffic his year. A prominent American mid that the international situation ■■as such that European and other .nuisos were not now regarded as safe, and increasing interest was being shown in the southern parts of the British Empire. Among the Mariposa passengers were Gene Sarazen and Miss Helen Hicks, the American professional golfers, and J. B. E. Ferrier, the Australian golf champion, who is returning from England, where he was runner-up in the British amateur championship. The professionals disembarked at Auckland to commence a tour of New Zealand.

LONDON’S PROSPERITY

The atmosphere of prosperity in London was commented on by Mr. E. B. Myer, Chairman of Directors of Myer Emporium, Melbourne, who is returning with his wife, on the Mari-1 posa. He said it was difficult to obtain hotel accommodation even now, and already hotels were booked out for the Coronation. London was benefiting from the state of unrest in Europe, and there was almost a boom there. Paris was depressed and the ack of gaiety in other European capitals was sending prosperous holiday-

makers to England. Mr. Myer related an amusing aspect of the big stayin strike in Paris in the departmental stores. He said that the workers kept the bosses and customers out > but each morning they dressed the shop windows anew. STUDENTS’ TOUR. To encourage international goodwill, Kenji Ito, LL.B., a Japanese student, and William Botzer, 8.A., grad-

nates of the University of Washington, and. Seattle, are travelling by the Mariposa in a course of lecture and debating tour to Hawaii, Australia, Japan, China. Philippine Islands. This morning they were the guests of the Travel Chib at morning tea.

BROTHERS’ RE-UNION. In the. shell-torn slopes of Gallipoli, two brothers fought side by side, one a captain with the New Zealand expeditionary Force, and the other, an officer with the Australians. Those days were recalled to-day, when after twenty-one years, Doctor W. N. Abbott (Auckland) greeted his brother R. H. SI Abbott, now a noted inventor in London, on the Mariposa, this morning. One of his inventions is an artificial electric eel, which has produced the first commercial means if handling the atom. The invention provides means of treating water and 'Other fluids by the polarising method for prevention of scale and corrosion in pipes and tanks, and can also be applied to the internal combustion engine, increasing mileage and eliminating carbon from cylinders. Mr. R. > Abbott later visits Australia and Jap-' an.