TRAVEL IN THE EAST
Address At R.S.A- Luncheon
Members of the 'Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association at their monthly luncheon yesterday listened to an address by Dr W. R. B. Oliver, Director of the Dominion Museum, entitled "'Po New Zealand, via the East.” He explained how the captain of the Dutch boat on which he travelled for some time got round the language question by making three speeches one in Dutch, one in Gorman and one in English; Dr. Oliver contrasted the friendliness of fhe Arabs and French hi Algiers with the Dutch treatment of the Javanese, who were not allowed to speak in Dutch to a Dutchman. From Algiers, Dr. Oliver crossed the Mcdlterranian and from Ville France, went by bus along the Riviera coast to Genoa. At the Kalian frontier, his camera was not confiscated but all newspapers were.
After a week in Egypt, Dr. Oliver boarded a Dutch boat and travelled to Colombo, Sumatra and Singapore, thence to Batavia and from Sourabayn to Auckland, calling on route at Port Moresby in the Australian territory of Papua, Samurai in Eastern Papua and finally at Rabaul where be climbed an active volcano which, he. said, greatly resembled White Island.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 3, 28 September 1939, Page 7
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