BY THE NIAGARA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 17 January 1928, Page 6

BY THE NIAGARA

DISTINGUISHED PASSENGERS FOF NE\y ZEALAND.

(By. Telegraph—Special to "The Mall") AUCKLANP, l&\iJp r W l 'yA 'large number of Sassengera arrived. by the R.M.S. Niagara from Sydney tn'.s morning. ' Many of them left the vessel, at Auckland, while others pri.i.'OJtf to Suva, Honolulu, and Vanooiivav. New that the tourist season is at :ts hi-ght numbers of Australian visitors arc coining to New Zealand. Among t'o passengers were the Hon. T. R. Bavin, 1 remier of Now South Wales, and iis daughter, Miss Shirley Bavin. lf-VV were, officially welcomed to New /.taland by Mr J. S. Dickson, M 1., S«?i»or whip of the Reform Party, and ia>««'.by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare.. Acting-Min-ister of Internal Affairs and Minister in charge of the Cook Islands. Througn Mr D. Ardell, of the Departme.u of Internal Affairs, Mr Bavin was proffered the assistance of the Government in arranging an itinerary. The visiting Premier has come for recreation, and he hopes to display some of Ins natural enthusiasm f o i- angling, both at Rotorua and Taupo He and Miss Bavin will .^ visit the South Island before Jea>>ig Wellington on 14th February on the return to bycl"Dajne Nellie Melba the 4?.ftvajiaJ prima donna, is travelling with he daughter-in-law. Mrs George Armstrong, and Miss Margaret Allen, to Honolulu The party have taken a-'bungalow at wSkfki beach and they are looking forward to an enjoyable holiday , Mr Nicholas Everett, of the English local firm of Watson and Everett, will spend several months in the Dominion p-incipally in the far.north among the use fish. As a British secret service olieer in. the Great War .he, had many adventures and secured the details about -Big Bertha" and i'.a . super-submarn e which'. Hie .Germans w&e budding m : 1914. Mr Everett has not been to New Zealand .before, • .:,. ■■, j:A„ Sir George Elliott, chairman of directors of thl Bank of New Zealand, re--1 turned after nine months' absence in England and on the Continent. _ The Hon. W. Forgan Smith, DeputyPremier and Minister of Agriculture >n the. Queensland Labour Cabinet, will spend several weeks in the Domimon. He has come to recuperate his health which has suffered, as; the.result-of •» years' parliamentary life. Mr Smith and ,sns family will go to Rotorua. after a few day? in Auckland. Mr Russell Colman. .fi| well-known partner in the firm of Colman, of mustard fame, has come to New Zealand for fishing at Rotorua, This is his first visit to the Dominion. Mr 'V H Panton, a Labour member of'the West Australian Parßanient, arrived with his-wife for .;a holiday yis.t Ito the Dominion. Mr Panton is secretary to,the Parliamentary Labour Party in his State.' •-