Who’s Who on the Aorangi

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 561, 14 January 1929, Page 16

Who’s Who on the Aorangi

BIG PASSENGER LIST

There was almost a record crowd on the R.M.M.S. Aorangi last evening when she arrived from Sydney. Of the 560 passengers on board, 399 disembarked at Auckland, which is almost another record. The cool evening air of Auckland delighted the passengers, many of whom stated that the heat in Sydney had been appalling. They said that yesterday was the coolest day they had enjoyed for some time. * * * Mr. T. Bradshaw, president and chairman of directors of the MasseyHarris Company, Toronto, Canada, is returning to his home after a visit to Australia. 1-lis Honour Mr. Justice Lippincott, of the High Court of Australia, is on his way to Honolulu, where he will spend a holiday. He is accompanied by Mrs. Lippincott. Mr. M. representing the French wool-buying firm of that name, is returning to Europe after a visit to the Australian branches of his firm. He is a well-known tennis player. Mr. C. Harry Wiles, head of Wiles Wireless, in Sydney, is on his way to the United States to investigate the latest developments in the wireless world. He hopes to bring several novelties and improvements back with him. * * * Mr. Edward E. Hirst, chairman and managing director of the British General Electric Co., Ltd., has arrived on one of his periodical tours of inspection of New Zealand. He is a cousin of Sir Hugo Hirst, one of the “Big Four” who is a.lso on the Aorangi. Count Casella Tamburine and Countess Tamburine arc returning to Rome, via America, after spending some months in Australia. They came out to attend the Eucharistic Congress, but decided to stay on and see something of the country. Count Tamburine is a well-known portrait painter in Rome, and during his stay in Australia he painted a portrait of Archbishop Mannix. He was overjoyed at the hospitality of Australians and was delighted with the work of the artists he saw there. Brigadier-General M. E. Willoughby, C. 8., C. 5.1.. C.M.G., has come out to New Zealand on holiday. He has a distinguished military record and has seen service in China. India, Mesopotamia and France. In 1909 he was military attache at Peking and in 1912-13 he was head of the mission for the repatriation of the Chinese Army in Tibet. General Willoughby has held several important posts in India and was through the Afghan Campaign in 1919. While in New Zealand the general will probably do some fishing. Mr. Peter Gawthorne is an English actor and playwright, who has been visiting Australia. Until last week he was playing in “The Desert Song,” but he is now on his to New York to produce one of his own plays there called “The Wishing Well.” Mr. Gawthorne has several London successes to his credit. One of them was “The Island King,” a musical comedy in which W. H. Berry was the comedian. He is at present writing two more plays—“ Light of the Moon” and “Next of Kin.”

“Just on a visit to New Zealand. from Auckland to Dunedin,” remarked

Mr. John Fuller, on© of tne heads of the Fuller firm. He said that everything is going well in Australia and that he and his brother, Sir Benjamin Fuller, were preparing for several big theatrical attractions for 1929. “Rio Rita,” with Gladys Moncrieffin the lead, has been a tremendous success in Sydney and Melbourne. It should reach Auckland about next September. Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Andreas, of Sydney, are frequent visitors to New Zealand. They will make a stay of some months and will probably do some shark fishing in the North. Two prominent Australian pastoralists, Mr. R. R. Danger and Mr. E. J. Watt, will tour the Dominion on holiday. y Mr. H. H. Field is associated with several big industrial concerns in England. He is general manager of Ryland Bros., Ltd., manufacturers of wire and wire-netting, and is also associated with Pearson and Knowles, the coal and iron people, and with the Partington Iron and Steel Company, which is the manufacturing si do of Armstrong, Whitworth group. Mr. Field will spend some time in New Zealand on a tour of inspection of the businesses with which he is associated and will then go on to Canada. “The New Zealand woman dresses as well as any woman in the world.” This appreciation comes from Mr. J. Saul wick, managing director of Marks and Saulwick Proprietary, Ltd., Sydney, who is on his way to the United States on a business tour. His firm is also the representatives for Julius Kayser, the silk people, in New Zealand and Australia. Mr. Saulwick stated last evening that the Kayser firm thought so highly of the New Zealand trade that they established a factory in Canada to cater for the Dominion trade. Two members of an old Irish family are beginning a tour Of New Zealand. They are Captain the Hon. Charles Mulholland, C.8.E., D. 5.0., and the Hon. Henry Mulholland, M.P. for County Down. Captain Mulholland is the eldest son of Lord Dunleath, and was military .secretary to the late Viscount French, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, from 1919 to 1921. He occupied a similar post with Lord Forster in Australia in 1925. The Hon. Henry was attached to the Royal Air Force. He is Assistant Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance in the Parliament of Northern Ireland. The brothers were both on active service during the war, and are directors of the York Street Flax Spinning Company. Belfast, the largest linen factory in the world. “The closing of the Sydney mint has resulted In a great increase of the work at the mint in Melbourne; in fact, it has almost doubled,” said Air. W. M. Robins, deputy-master of the Melbourne mint, who was a passenger from Sydney. He said that the Melbourne mint was now issuing a number of sovereigns. That a definite step was being taken to co-ordinate the interests of producers and manufacturers of wool was the assertion of Dr. J. E. Nichols, member of a research committee set up by the controllers of the industry. He is visiting the Dominion on a tour of investigation. The industry, he said, was passing through an interesting stage.