Who’s Who On the Aorangi

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 419, 30 July 1928, Page 1

Who’s Who On the Aorangi

with ® prominent passengers

W e Aorangi arrived from Sydney this morning on her way to Vancouver, carrying a. large number of passengers _d tourists. Delegates to the Parliamentary Conterence in Canada and the Women’s Pan-pacific Conference in Honolulu .. on board, and the New Zealand delegates to both conferences will join , he vessel to-morrow. Pine weather prevailed on the jouracross the Tasman, though the day after leaving Sydney was rather cboppy- „ * « o.tnrned after a holiday trip to New Wales are Mr. and Mrs. J. N. fowiw 'of Hawke’s Hay. and their slsL Miss Falkiner, daughter of the I‘own sheep breeder, Mr. F. B. fKLer of Haddon Rig, New South Wales Mr. Howry intends to try to 'lt into form fur the New Zealand Tennis championships here. He saw Indian Army ’polo team play one match against Victoria and he thought llv were badly handicapped by their ponies, which gave out in the last •hukka The pomes were borrowed in Australia. •‘Skilled players on unskilled ponies,” was his brief description of the team. Mr. John Ppwer, surgeon, of Bris-' bane, and Mrs Bower are New York bound. Mr. Power is making the trip primarily to continue a specialist study in surgery at Ne*v- York and at the Mayo jClinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Mrs. Power will go on to England. Mr. S. S. Jenkins, general manager for Dodge Motors in Australia and New Zealand, is on his way to visit the Podge factories. He is combining business with pleasure and expects to be away for some months. Motor sales in Australia are splendid, said Mr. Jenkins this morning. * * * Mr. Oswald Brown, of Toorak, Melbourne, is very optimistic about this season’s wheat crop in Ai\tralia. He owns a station, in the Wiramera district, in the wheat-growing area of Victoria. “I have about 5,000 acres in wheat this year,” he remarked this morning, ‘and there was every prospect of a good return. Last year we did very badly.” Mr. and Mrs. Brown are on a holiday trip to Suva, Fiji. * * * Mi*. Tom Mc>ore, the husband of Miss Gladys MoncriefE, is a through passenger for Vancouver. He is enthusiastic over his wife’s success in “Rio Rita” in Sydney. * * * The best-known trainer in Sydney, Mr. George Price, .is on a flying business visit to Auckland and Wellington. His last success on the track was to train the winner which paid what is commonly known as a “hatful.” Mr. Price has also trained such wellknown horses as Windbag and Winalot. He is a Christchurch man, but spent many years in Wellington >efore going into business in Sydney. Mr. A. Collins, Australian and New Zealand representative for the Marconiphone Company, has come to New Zealand to attend a conference of Amalgamated Wireless representatives Jit Wellington.