WHO’S WHO ON NIAGARA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16772, 11 October 1928, Page 12

WHO’S WHO ON NIAGARA

The R.M.S. Niagara arrived at .Auckland on Monday from Vancouver, with nearly 500 passengers on board. She carried several important visitors, including the Scottish-Australian delegation. Lord Lovat and several New Zealand howlers who returned from their tour abroad. .Mrs. Uric Riddiford. wife of the Wairarapa run-holder, and Mrs. W. F. Handvside, of Wellington, are returning after a tour abroad. Mr. Irving Carney, wool-broker, of Christchurch, has been on an extended four of the United States. He said that industry in the States is in an excellent condition, except for the textile trades, which are depressed at present. He predicts that wool prices will he easier this year, though there will be nothing to worry about. "I beard more about New Zealand this time than ever before,” said Mr. Carney, who went on to speak of the great, interest, people of the United States are taking in the Dominion. Captain Stuart Pearson, an ex-Tndian army officer, now living in Australia, is one of the Australian polo team which has heeii playing in Honolulu. He went on to New York and saw the international matches there. Mr. George A. Oakes, of Bloomfield, one of the heads of Thomas Oakes and Co., the largest manufacturers of woollen goods in the United States, has heard so much about New Zealand fish and fishing that he lias come down to try them for himself. He will spend several

months here and hopes to catch some marlin and thresher shark. Mr. Oakes is also a keen trout fisherman, and will try as many of the New Zealand streams as possible. Mr. James Russell, of Sydney, is returning home after a world tour. While in Kngland he placed an order for 1)10,000 worth of new machinery for his publishing firm. Mr. Russell is a keen believer in “Trade within the Empire,” and is helping to keep it there. Sister H. Sutherland, who served with the New Zealand Nursing Division during the Great War. is glad to see her homeland again. Sister Sutherland has been living in Paris for several years and is paying a visit to the Dominion. Mr. Claude H. Willmott, of Sydney, is returning from a world tour. While in New York lie presented an Australian Itag to the New York Advertising Club, whose premises cost 1,500,000 dollars to build. America, he says, is keenly watching the Australian and New Zealand markets. Dr. L. M. McKillop, of Brisbane, who has been representing the Queensland Government and the Queensland Cancer Campaign Committee at an International Congress in London, has much to say of the good work which was accomplished there. One of the outcomes of the congress, he says, was the determination to educate the public regarding the danger of cancer, the meaning of pre-cancer conditions and the means to avoid them. He is accompanied hv Dr. St. J. Dansey, of Sydney, who lias been representing New Smith Wales at the Congress. Mr. D. McLennan, Harbor Trust Commissioner for Australia, is returning after a tour abroad. Mr. C. L. .Tones, of Sydney, is returning after an extended tour abroad. — Auckland- Sun.