Who’s Who on the Aorangi

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 644, 22 April 1929, Page 9

Who’s Who on the Aorangi

With passengers, mails and cargo the R.M.M.S. Aorangi arrived in Auck- • land last evening from Vancouver, ‘ after an excellent voyage. A large proportion of the pussen- | gers disembarked at Auckland, includmany New Zealanders returning from trips abroad Mr. W. Goodfellow, managing dire*. - s tor of the New Zealand Co-operative j Dairy Company, has l»eon on a tour |of Canada and the United States, investigating the dairying position there. Mr. A. W. lleyes, director of the London firm of Henry A. Lane and Co., i Ltd., dairy produce merchants, has ! come to New Zealand to study dairying conditions. He would not comment on the state of the London market or methods of marketing. Mr. Frederic Lotto, a retired play - wright from America, will spend a holiday in New Zealand before going on to Australia. Mr. \V. E. Browne, a geologist employed by the Turkish Petroleum Company at Bagdad, proposes to come to. New Zealand to live in another year or two. He has already purchased a section at Kerikeri and expects to grow fruit there. Colonel Lawrence, of Arabia, loses much of his glamour after a chat with Air. Browne, who states that much of the present trouble in the East is due toTus mistakes. Lnvrence made promises to Fiisul and Abdullah which the British Gov eminent had to honour. Feisul was made King of Iraq and Abdullah Ameer of Trans-Jordan, but the thrones should never have been promised to them, as it has led to endless trouble. One of the greatest mistakes England made was to hand Damascus and Syria over to the French, remarked Mr. Browne. Mr. S. Pilcher, assistant-marager of the Union Steam Ship Comifany at Vancouver and before that at'San Francisco. has returned to spend a holiday in New Zealand. He is accompanied by his wife. Dr. J. Pilcher, Mr. J. Proud, manager, and secretary of the Camperdown Butter and Cheese Co. in Victoria, Australia, has been on a world tour which embraced Denmark, England and the United States. Talking of dairy pro duce abroad, he said: “I have seen nothing better than the New Zealand and Australian products and some quite as good.” After an inspection of conditions in Denmark he said tha* the methods of the Danes would be of no use on this side of the world, as their butter is not made for lengthv keeping. Mr. Proud would not comment on the marketing of New Zealand and Australian butter In England, but he inferred that some improvement wa« necessary. “There is not a cinema in New York which has failed to secure talkie equipment,” said Air. Kelvin Cuff, of Cuff and Thomson, Ltd., cinematograph engineers, who has returned after a visit to the United States on motion-picture business. Ho has brought out with him a. number of new plants, the destinations of which have yet to be fixed. He announced last evening that his •firm had secured the Australian and New Zealand patent rights, also power to act under the rights, owned and controlled by the Lumaphone Corporation, which controlled the basic patents on the phono-electric cell—an essential part of certain talkie equipment. Among several American travellers visiting New Zealand and Australia for the first time arc Air. and Mr.-. C. IT. Putnan and Air. and Airs. C. Kirkpatrick and son, all of Boston, who are on route for Sydney. Mr. and Airs. Putnan are. paying a short visit to friends in Auckland. Air. E. G. Pauly, foreign manager f General Sales Co., New York, 'ill spend a holiday in New Zealand. l ! o is accompanied by his wife and family and is staying at Stonehurst. Air. J. D. Tothill, Director of Agriculture for the Colony of Uganda, i a through passenger for Sydney, but he will return to New Zealand a J . a later date. * * • Among the prominent Australians who are returning home are Mr. Jl. R. Arnott. biscuit manufacturer. of Sydney; Air. D. S. Sullivan, a Sydney solicitor; Air. J. Saul wick, a wellknown Alelbourne merchant; and Miss D. Helmrich, an Australian singer who has been studying in England. * * * Several professional boxers—P. Silverberg, J. Souza, S. Shack man. L. Bloom, AI. Grace and .T. Alollette, are on their way to Sydney under the direction of Stadiums, Ltd. * * * Dr. J. Pilcher, professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, was formerly science mistress at the Auckland Grammar School. She left here nine years ago for America, where she studied at the Stamford University and gained hoi degree of doctor qf philosophy. Psychology was an important subject to-day. Dr. Pilcher said. In America medical students all had to take a course and the English and Canadian universities were paying more attention to this subject. Every student had to make his or her own way in an American university, Dr. Pilcher said. She also stated that many people in the States thought that New Zealand was part of Australia. With her son and her husband Dr. Pilcher will tour New Zealand before returning to Canada. * * * Air. C. Wilson, a member of the Dairy Control Board of Australia, is returning from a holiday in Honolulu. Tie said that a good season was predicted for Australian dairy producers, though the early season had been very dry. As far as London was concerned, trade was in such a state that it would not stand absolute control. The Australian Board had done good work, but the Commonwealth butter market was vastly different from that of New Zealand, as the Dominion made more butter and . cheese than she could possibly use. The duty of j 6d a lb on Now Zealand butter going ; into Hawaii killed the trade except j when the American product was uni procurable.