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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20667, 4 March 1937, Page 2

When the Arawa, the fine liner which has been reconditioned by the Shaw Savill, and Albion Line, leaves Wellington on March 27 on her first Homeward trip on the England-New Zealand run, she will carry many New Zealanders of Importance. The Arawa, which is now at Lyttelton, will have as passengers the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, and his secretarial staff, on their way to the Imperial Conference and Messrs E. J. Howard, W. J. Broadfoot, and F. W. Schramm, members of Parliament. As the annual conference of the New Zealand Labour party will be in session in Wellington at the time, the Prime Minister may expect a more than ordinarily enthusiastic send-off. The third New Zealand cricket team to tour England also will travel by this vessel.

Ireland is the most peaceful country in the world to live in, according to the Rev. Father T. Curran, one of the four Roman Catholic priests who are returning to Australia by the Monterey after spending a vacation in Ireland. Conditions had improved out of all recognition since he was there seven years ago, said Father Curran, and the country had reached a more settled state than had been known for a long time. To balance the economic scale, upset by the loss of the export trade in cattle to England, national industries had been started, and in four years no fewer than 400 had been established. In the last two years the balance of trade with England had been improved by £4,000,000. A sure indication of improved conditions was that there was now little emigration from the country.