SERVED IN THREE WARS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 83, 2 January 1930, Page 20

SERVED IN THREE WARS

AN INTERESTING ENGLISH VISITOR

FINDS A RUGBY OPPONENT IN ROTORUA GUIDE

Among the visitors to Wellington at the present time is Surgeon-Colonel E. Turion, for thirty years attached to the British Army, and who is now retired Colonel Turton, who is a brother of Sir E. K. Turton, Bart., M.P. for the Thirsk division of Yorkshire, and .who himself stood for Parliament in, the Conservative interest in 1924, is a keen fisherman. He can speak with authority on deep-sea fishing in such waters as those of Jamaica, Trinidad, Catalina Island (California), Hawaii, India, and Campbell River (British Columbia). He had some splendid sport in the north and at Hawaii, aiid lias since fished for trout at Rotorua, Rotoiti, and at the Tongariro River (Taupo). Colonel Turton said, he happened to meet Guide Warbrick at Rotorua, and on getting into/conversation with him discovered that he had played Rugby football against him when. Warbrick was a member of the ISSS-S9 New Zealand (Native) team in England. On that occasion Colonel Turtonfi then only 19 vears of age, played for Cambridge and - Yorkshire against the New Zealanders. . Colonel Turton, a well-set-up man, has the distinction of having served - throughout three campaigns—the Boer War, in South Africa, the Waziri trouble in Afghanistan, and the. Great War. . He intends to visit, places of interest in- the ' South Island before travelling on to Australia.