Who’s Who on the Maunganui

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1024, 15 July 1930, Page 9

Who’s Who on the Maunganui

The Maunganui arrived in Auckland this morning from Sydney after an uneventful voyage across the Tasman. She carried more than 200 passengers, overseas and Australian mails and a large quantity of cargo, including many cases of Australian frail.

Mr. G. L. Wynyard, who has spent eight months in Australia, considers that affairs in the Commonwealth are not at all satisfactory. Unemployment is rife and the tariffs are killing a good deal of trade. Racing seems to be the only business in which there is any money.

Mr. A. R. Kemsley, a young Englishman from Essex, has come out to New Zealand to recuperate after a bad fall in the hunting field. He does a good deal of racing in England and rides at point-to-point and hunt club meetings. During his stay in New Zealand he hopes to do some hunting.

An Aucklander now resident in Sydney stated that importers in Australia have been practically wiped out by the Government prohibition of imports. The present policy of the Government is to give all work to Australians One big American pickle-manu-facturing firm quickly accepted the situation, and is now building a factory in New South Wales.

Messrs. L. J. and K. S. McWilliams are visiting the Dominion with a view to marketing their Australian wines here. Their annual output averages about 1.000,000 gallons, and includes wines of all varieties. In addition to surveying the prospective market in the Dominion they will investigate the possibilities of growing vines here.

Miss E. Spence, an Englishwoman who has spent some years in Australia, has now come on to New Zealand, where she hopes to stay for some time. Recently Miss Spence, in company with a companion, undertook an adventurous journey across the York Peninsula, in Northern Australia. The trip, which was done for scientific purposes. occupied five months. Both women rode horses and packed all their requirements.

Mr. A, Cummins, a Wellington bu. i-ness-maff, was another who endorsed the opinion of many of the passengers on board, that one could not realise the seriousness of the present crisis iu Australia unjil one had been there. “It has one hundred per cent, worse during the past month, and I feel confident that when Sir Otto Niemeyer, the noted English banker, who has been inyited to investigate the position arrives* there, many of the present tariffs will b«e badly squashed.” said Mr. Cummins.

Mr. J. A. Jordan, of Tauranga, has just spent three months in Australia. He is a keen follower at Rugby, and stated that the standard t>f the game in Australia has reached a particularly high level. He considers that the Australians will give the Englishmen a good game. The finances of the Rugby Union are excellent, and there are now so many good players that It Is impossible to find places for them in the clubs. During his stay in Sydney, Mr. Jordan attended the Royal Agricultural and Pastoral Show, which he considers is the finest in the world. Model yacht racing has become a popular sport in Sydney, and there are several clubs, but the best of the small craft there failed when competing against those raced by the Auckland enthusiast. Mr. W. T. Matthews, who returned this morning. Mr. Matthews, who is one of the keenest enthusiasts in Auckland and has done much to foster the sport here, took models to Sydney and has returned undefeated. “I actually put out a challenge to race any model yacht in the whole of New South Wales,” he said. • * « “China is at the present lime in a terrible state.” said Mr. A. Russell. Government Marine Surveyor at HongKong who. accompanied iy his daughter, Miss M. W. Russell, has arrived for a three months’ holiday stay in New Zealand. “The value of the dollar has dropped recently from 2s to Is 3d, but of course there are other Eastern places such as Singapore and Java which have the gold standard and are not affected.” said Mr. Russell. According to this visitor, there are quite a number of the Union Company’s old steamers trading at HoneKong, many of which were stationed there during the war period.