Who’s Who on the Ulimaroa

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 639, 16 April 1929, Page 9

Who’s Who on the Ulimaroa

Th© Ulimaroa arrived from Sydney this morning with passengers and mails from Australia. Fine weather was experienced on the whole trip. Included among the passengers were several churchmen of different denominations and on Sunday all of them joined in a combined service. The Rev. S. C. Roberts, of Taree, New South Wales, is on a health trip to New Zealand and the Friendly Islands. He is a son of the late Professor Roberts, of the Tongan College, and will spend a year travelling before he returns to his duties. Several missionaries are on their way to Samoa to take up duty there. The Rev. E. Blake, who is accompanied by Mrs. Blake, is to take charge of the Methodist Mission in Samoa. The Rev. R. Maddox is also on his way to Samoa to take up mission work. Tie is accompanied by Mrs. Maddox. They were married just before they left Sydney. Mr. J. Wringley will go to the Samoan mission field as a lay reader. He is accompanied by his wife. These churchmen will all leave bv the Tofua on Saturday. Miss E. S. Williams is a mission sister who is on her way to the mission fields in the South Seas. She will work in the Diocese of Melanesia. The Rev. C. Wilcox, a Presbyterian minister, of Wellington, returned after a visit to Australia. Mr. 11. C. French, general manager of th© Ford Motor Company in Australia and New Zealand, has come over on a holiday trip and will spend some weeks in the Dominion. Usually he is so busy when he visits New Zealand that he has no time for sightseeing. Mr. E. A. Emerson, vice-president and managing director of the Arinco International Corporation, Ohio, U.S.A., is making his first trip to New Zealand. His organisation trades in steel and iron products and he has come out to investigate the New Zealand market. “There is no method of valuing the markets except by personal contact,” he said this morning. “A vi%it of one or two weeks gives me more information and insight into business than months of correspondence.” Mr. Emerson said that New Zealand and Australia were mentioned frequently in America because that both had the same agricultural problems which affected the United States. “Frequently our efforts to help our own people on the land react against yours.” he said. While in New Zealand Mr. Emerson will make personal calls on his firm’s agents and will endeavour'to see as much of the country, as possible.