PROMINENT VISITORS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 5

PROMINENT VISITORS

AMERICAN AIR EXPERT AUSTRALIAN POLITICIAN (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. With 329 passengers the Matson liner Monterey arrived yesterday from Sydney after an uneventful trip. Mr. Harold Gatty, the well-known American aviation expert, who is interested in the formation of the proposed trans-Pacific air service, arrived on a business visit,. He left to go to Wellington to-day. Another prominent passenger was 'Brigadier-General H. W. Lloyd, a member of the Australian House of Representatives, who is visiting New Zealand in an attempt to form a branch of a new peace organisation known as the British-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 fo'r 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 official endorsement of the Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons. Brigadier-General 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.