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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 11, 24 December 1925, Page 6

Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, is visiting Hastings to spend a well-earned holiday with his daughter. He is accompanied by two daughters. Mr. Wallace expects to be away from Auckland for about ten days.

New Zealand owes a great deal to its schoolmasters and Auckland (says the “Star”) in the years gone by has. like other parts of the Dominion, been the happy possessor of men who have devoted their lives cheerfully and un coasingly to the education of children and the moulding of public character. In Mr. W. W. Hill, headmaster of tne Curran Street ■ School, Ponsonby, Auckland has had one of its best and most popular masters and now that the time has come when he is to retire from active service there will be general regret, for not only was he highly respected by the public and his fellow officers, but was universally loved by his pupils. Mr. Hill has had fort.v three years’ service in the Auckland district and the greater portion of that time has been spent in Auckland city schools and pupils that have been under him are to be.found to-day occupying positions in many walks of life. “Do you know that there is a golden torrent for New Zealand to tap in the to «ist traffic?” remarked Mr. J. D. Gray, Under-Secretary of External Affairs, when his attention was drawn to the visit of the Carinthia to New Zealand as part of the world’s tour. “There is a tremendous number of Americans with time, money and ilia •nsposition to travel. Many of them have become satiated with Europe and South America, and are eager to see new lands. Whenever New Zealand was mentioned, it wag. with commendation

a fine little country. This stream of traffic is vast, for when I was in New York ten world cruises were being advertised, and I was told they were all well patronised. Very valuable work is being done to induce tourist travel to the Dominion by Mr. M. W. Horton, lately of the Union Company’s head office, who is their direct agent in New York.”

Still another steamer of the Union Co.’B fleet has been equipped at Port t'halmers for the consumption of oil fuel. This is the liner Marama. Conversion from coal to oil is an arduous undertaking, requiring skill and sound judgment, but the work has been cartied out successfully by the company’s repair staff, and the Marama goes into commission after the holidays.