THE STEAMER RANGITATA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21266, 21 February 1931, Page 7

THE STEAMER RANGITATA.

FINE WEATHER VOYAGE. SOME OF THE PASSENGERS. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 20. There were 245 passengers on the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Rangitata when she arrived from Southampton last evening. It was a fine weather voyage. Included amongst those on board were a number of tourists, as well as returning New Zealanders. Captain V. C. White Parsons, who for many years was commander of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s vessels, has come to New Zealand to renew acquaintanceship with friends. Mr P. A. Ward, son of the late Sir Joseph Ward, and Mrs Ward were passengers from England. Mr and Mrs Ward will leave for the south this evening, and they intend spending some time in the Dominion, They were married in Detroit. Mrs Ward is a daughter of Mr D. H. M'Cormack, ex vice-president of the Hudson and Essex Company, of Detroit. Mr Maitland M'Cutcheon, of Gore, who won an associated board exhibition, entitling him to two years’ tuition at the Royal Academy of Music, also returned. Dr R. W. T. H. Stewart has arrived to take up the position of medical registrar at the Christchurch Hospital. He is a son of Professor J. H. Stewart, professor of Physics at the Royal University of Ireland. Mr Henry Ferguson has come to the Dominion to take up the post of lecturer in experimental psychology at Otago University. He graduated M.A. (ordinary) in June, 1928, at St. Andrew’s University, Scotland, and in the following year he took his M.A. with first class honours in moral and mental philosophy. For a time lie was investigator for the Industrial Health Research Board, and since then lie has made a special study of educational methods and practices. Another scholar who will fill a post in the university of New Zealand is Mr L. Morrison, who is going to Canterbury College as lecturer in etymology. He is accompanied by his wife and child. Mrs Morrison, like her husband, is a graduate of Aberdeen University. Mr Morrison was on the zoological staff at the university, and was for some time a lecturer in zoology at the Armstrong College of the Dunbar University, New-castle-on-Tyne.