SIR F. TRUBY KING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20426, 5 June 1928, Page 11

SIR F. TRUBY KING.

HIGH SPEED IN EUROPE INVESTIGATIONS AND CONFERENCES. (From Ooe Own Coeei'spondint.) LONDON, April 26. Next Monday Sir F. Tmby King and his daughter will set out on a tour of Europe which it is proposed shall last for 35 days. They have bought a Hillman 14 h.p saloon car and are employing a first-class chauffeur and courier to pilot them on their long journey. “ I am quite satisfied we can effect everything necessary,” said Sir Truby, “ professionally and otherwise in a maximum of 35 days, travelling at the rate of 125 to 200 miles a day, arriving back at Folkestone about June 1.” Itineraries are not of particular interest, but in this case the record of travel is an indication of the energy and pertinacity of the principal traveller. The route will be Southampton, Havre, Paris, Orleans, Valley of the Loire (and adjacent chateaux). Thence to Biarritz via Poitiers, the Landes, etc. From Biarritz over the Pyrenees to Pamplona (the capital of Navarre, the birthplace of Richards wife, Berengaria). Return by route leading northwestwards to San Sebastian, reaching the fringe of the Bay of Biscay, about 100 miles west of Biarritz. From Biarritz, via Bayonne, Pau, Tarbes, Toulouse, Carcassonne, Montpellier, Nimes, Avignon, Tarascon, Arles, Aix, Marseilles, French Riviera, and Italian Riviera as far as Rapallo (about 70 miles east of Genoa). To save time and avoid bad, flinty, coastal roads, they are obliged to cut out their projected journey to Pisa, Rome, Florence, and Bologna, reaching Venice by the afternative route direct through Lombardy, namely, Genoa, Milan, Brescia, Lake Garda, Verona, and Venice. From Venice~the route will lie through Treviso, Udine, Villach, and the Semmering Pass (which should be free enough of ice and snow to allow the travellers through by the middle of May). Their intended route from Vienna was by Prague, Dresden, and Berlin, but in order to save time and avoid bad Czecho-Slovakian roads, they purpose visiting Prague by aeroplane from Vienna (which takes only two hours), and returning to Vienna by train. From Vienna they will motor to Linz, Nuremberg, Rothenburg, Wurzburg, Frankfort, Cologne, and Dusseldorff, crossing into Holland at Amheim. Thence to Utrecht, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leyden, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam, and due south to Antwerp; thence south-west through Ghent and Couftrai to Ypres, St. Omer, and Boulogne* crossing to Folkestone. “We ought to maintain an average speed of between 30 and 40 miles an hour,” said Sir Truby, “ and the driver is quite willing to ensur? up to 250, or even 300, miles a day when we want to cover distance rather than loitering. EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS.

“ I am particularly anxious to meet and confer with Dr Armand-Delillc, the leading exponent and authority in France of Rollier’s sunlight treatment, and some of the leading paediatrists in Paris. We shall be spending a few days in Vienna with Von Pirquet, and Drs Schiek and Siegfried Weiss, with whom I have been in personal touch since 1913 —and especially at the close of the war in 1918. “We propose spending about a week in Holland and Belgium, with a view to investigating on the spot the practical Mieasures by which they have arrived at their remarkably low rates of maternal mortality, and the deaths of infants in the first month of life, as these matters are of such supreme importance in New Zealand.

“We shall arrive back in London about the end of May, and intend to remain in the Old Country for about six weeks, with a view to attending the National Conference of Maternity and Infant Welfare, which takes place in London in the first week of July. I shall also attend the International Child Welfare Conference which is to be held in Paris from July Bto 12. I have had to give up all idea of a s'ojourn in America on the way back to New Zealand, as I undertook to return to New Zealand in time to attend the General Conference of the Plunket Society, which is to meet in Wellington early in September.”