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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21631, 15 November 1935, Page 12

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The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) will arrive from Wellington this morning and will begin his tour of the south with an address at Oamaru to-night. The Hon. Adam Hamilton. PostmasterGeneral, left Timaru by the south express yesterday morning. He will pay short visits to Gore and Mandeville. Mr L. J. Wild, headmaster of Feilding Agricultural High School and president of the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand, is a visi- ] tor to Christchurch for the show. j Sir William Hunt, chairman of the Mortgage j Corporation, attended the Metropolitan Show i yesterday as the guest of the Canterbury Agri- ! cultural ami Pastoral Association. Mr F. F. Hartley, assistant manager of Beath and Company, Ltd.. left Christchurch last evening for Australia. Mi- S. J. Robinson, of Auckland, general manager of Newsprint (Mersey), Ltd., arrived in Christchurch yesterday and left for the south in the afternoon. He will return to Christchurch in about a fortnight. Dr. C. E. Booby, executive ohicer of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, returned to Wellington by the Rangatira la<t evening. Professor C. Fay. Reader in Economic History • in the University of Cambridge, who is touring i parts of the Empire to study the co-operative i organisation of agriculture, arrived in Chrisf--1 church yesterday. i Mr G. McNamara, Director-General of the ' Post and Telegraph Department, arrived in • Christchurch from the south last night. i Lord Barnby, a representative of Bradford ; wool interests, was a guest at the Metropolitan I Show veslerday. He left in the evening for | Tekapo. | The Hon. Sir Frederick Tout, of the New j South Wales State Legislature, and a member j of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council, was a I guest at the Metropolitan Show yesterday. ; Mr A. G. Churcher, a member of the head- ; quarters stall' of the Toe H movement in Lon- : don, arrived in Christchurch yesterday. He i will remain here for a week. j Sir Clutha Mackenzie, director of the New | Zealand institute for the Blind, will arrive in j Christchurch from the south to-night and will 1 remain in the city during the visit of the insti- } lute's band. During his stav in Christchurch j Sir Clutha will be the guest of Mr and Mrs | W. T. Woods. Mr David Jones, a member of the Executive Commission of Agriculture, arrived in Christchurch from Wellington yesterday morning. He i was engaged during the day on business con- | nected with the commission's proposals for the j organisation of the dairy industry and also I visited the Canterbury Agricultural and Pas- | toral Association's show at Addington. He: j addressed the district delegates to the confer- | ence of the Royal Agricultural Society of New j Zealand last evening, and to-night will return | to Wellington. Mr Noel Monks, who is sending news from ■ the Abyssinian war front to several newspapers in the Commonwealth and to Ihe United Press .' Association of New Zealand, was at one time i with the ".Herald," Melbourne. Having been J granted a year's absence he worked his nasI sage to London on one of the Bay liners. ! In London he secured a position on the "Daily l Express," but the spirit of adventure was too j strong, and he went to Abyssinia. On the way : he was inoculated against smallpox, and the virus played strange tricks. The ship surgeon | suggested amputation of the arm, so bad had ': it become, but Mr Monks said he might just • as well be dead without an arm, and refused | to agree to the suggestion. I " r." —l:~ :,' -_

Although )\ is early in the season, a marked increase in tourist traffic is already evident. According to officials of Auckland tourist agencies and .shipping companies, the forecast made Jast month, that this tourist, season would prove better than that of last year, which reflected the first substantial increase since the slump in world trade began, was proving correct. Further enquiries had come to hand, not only from persons in Great Britain and America, but also from many other parts of the world from which few tourists had come in the past. Australian bookings were higher than those of last year. This year four special trips were scheduled to bring tourists from this source, the liners being the Strathnaver, the Strathaird, the Otranto, and the Orama. The only uncertainty in the situation, according to one official, was the threat to peace in the Mediterranean, one of the chief tourist lanes, but even if war between Italy and Abyssinia continued or became more involved, it would lead rather to the diversion of the tourist traffic than to cancellation of tours. It was held that the conflict would divert traffic ta the Panama Canal.