Who’s Who on the Ulimaroa

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 1

Who’s Who on the Ulimaroa

To-Day’s Arrivals

By the Uilmaroa from Sydney today arrived the English croquet team, headed by Sir Francis Colchester Wemyss, a cousin of Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss. Most of the people on the ship had looked at Sir Francis deferentially all the way over, believing him to be his famous relation. * • * Sir Francis, who, by the way, is also a keen fisherman, was last here in 1925-26, when he got into the semi - ■ finals of the New Zealand croquet championships. Mr Malcolm Ross has arranged a fishing and stalking tour for Sir Francis, after the croquet matches. • • • Another croquet player is Colonel Dupre, ex-Conservative member for the Beaconsfield division of Buckinghamshire. who was the first M.P. to lose his seat to a woman, the successful candidate being Lady Terrington. The Colonel holds the men’s croquet, championship of England. * * .* The rest of the croquet team are Miss D. D. Steele, woman champion of England, and Miss J. Retallack. Mr. and Mrs. Windsor Richards, and Mr. and Mrs. Dupre travelled with the players. • * * The proprietor of the “Dungog Chronicle” and Minister of Public Works for New South Wales in 1904, the Hpn. Walter Bennett is paying a holiday visit to his native land. He was born in Wellington. ♦ * * Mr. H. B. Phipps, general manager of the Chrysler organisation fqr Australia and New Zealand, was also a passenger on the Ulimaroa. He is to be joined later by Mr. E. C. Morse, of America, vice-president of the company, who is to arrive by the Aorangi next week. Business and pleasure is the object of Mr. Phipps’s visit. * * • ♦ Mr. Beaumont Smith, managing director for J. C. Williamson Films, and Mr. A. R. Shepard, recently appointed general manager for the circuit, are returning after a short visit to Sydney. Mr. Beaumont Smith says that the J.C.W. circuit is to be extended to include Dunedin, Wanganui, Invercargill and several other centres. * * * Keen big-game hunters and fishers are Colonel and Mrs. G. A. Strutt, of Brailsford Hall, Derbyshire, who came to New Zealand after seeing the record heads taken here by their cousin, Lord Belper and exhibited at Wembley. The Colonel, who served in the Derbyshire Yeomanry in the war, has shot in the Sudan, the Rockies and Mongolia, and Mrs. Strutt has dorie a lot of stalking in Scotland. They go to Russell first of all for the fishing. * * * Travelling with her brother, Mr. Walter Carter, deputy general manager for the Royal Insurance Company, Liverpool, is Lady Sleigh, of Lincolnshire, who is related to Mrs. Trevor Hackman, of Remuera. Lady Sleigh is very interested in women’s work and she is a president of the Women’s Institute of her town. Mr. Carter is on a business tour of New Zealand. • * • An expert on electric totalisators, Mr. A. McDonald Smith, has just been having a look at the latest “tote” for Paris, which, made in Sydney, has 240 issuers as against 60 at Ellerslie. Mr. Smith has installed all of the electric “totes” in this country.