“MOST ENJOYABLE TOUR”

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1930, Page 10

“MOST ENJOYABLE TOUR”

OKAIAWA TRAVELLERS RETURN. INTEREST IN NEW ZEALAND. After an absence of over six months Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Betts returned to Okaiawa on Tuesday, having spent a most enjoyable time touring the British Isles. Except for a period of three weeks during which Mr. Betts was an inmate of. Aidershot Hospital, they were singularly fortunate in the weather and travelling. Leaving New Zealand by the Rangitane, they made the homeward trip via the Panama Canal, returning on the Orontes through the Suez Canal to Sydney and on to New Zealand by the Makura. ,■ “Everyone we met was keenly interested in New Zealand,” said Mr. Betts, “and once they knew where we were from they set themselves out to give us a good time. It was the same with the hcaxls of big business houses we visited, and the courteous manner in which they assisted us where possible-, made, the whole trip the more enjoyable. But though they were interested in the Dominion the majority of the folk we came in touch with were not very well informed as to our land and our methods of lining. Travelling we found cheaper than we had expected,. and the average seems to be about Id a mile single and 14d return. The huge bus services are making the competition with the railway Services very keen and cutting down the cost of travelling.” In the course of their tour Mr. and Mrs. Betts met several other people from New Zealand, while on going to a place recommended as a. New Zealand rendezvous in Gordon Street, Euston, they were surprised to meet an old Haweta resident, Mr. G. White, and his daughter Gladys. Mr. White was at one time the Hawera manager of th® Bank of New Zealand. Mr, Betts, himself a cricket enthusiast, was able to see both the third test at Leeds and the sensational concluding match at tne Oval. Some time wa/spent upon a Shropshire farm, and there Mr.. Betts had the opportunity to study thd Bri--tish farmers methods. Another 'farm situated, in Lancashire was also visited. “I have great sympathy for the English farmer,” said Mr. Bretts. “Everything that he himself produces, from fruit and (vegetables to poultry, is pushed. on to the English markets from foreign countries at a much lower price than he can afford to charge. To quote just one example, there is the recent blackberry crop. While we were there the market was flooded, with blackberries from a foreign source and the price fell so low that the English farmer found it not worth his time to gather the crop—and yet the restaurant price of blackberries did not fall!” During his three weeks in hospital Mr. Bette became accustomed to the numbers of'aeroplanes which, .in flying to Croydon, passed oyer the hospital. “After a while,” he said, “I didn't bother to look up, but one day a slightly different tone in an ‘ engine made me glance up and there was the 810 J pass.--incr over. It was a beautiful sight. Afterwards, on: the voyage home, we read of its disastrous end.” Mrs. Bette assured the-somewhat envious reporter that after it afl they were quite sure that New Zealand was the best country to live in. GOLF AT HAWERA. MEN’S-v. LADIES’ MATCH. The winter golf season' at Hawera, will conclude on Saturday with the presentation of trophies and the annual ladies v. men match. The draw is:—Miss Robertson and Mrs. Pease v. O’Callaghan and Little; Mrs. Watkley and Miss E. Burgess v. Baigenl and Morpeth; Miss Richardson and Mrs. Dickie v. Pratt and Syme; Mies G. Death and Miss H. Burgess v. Walkley and Pease; Mrs. Dalgetty and Mrs. Gabites v. Bayley and Hay-Mackenzie; Miss M. Hawken and Mrs. Baigent v. Cox and J. N. Anderson; Miss McCormack and Miss Wallis v. McKenzie and D. C. Ryan; Miss Hogan and Mrs. Corey v. W- G. Sutton and Gibson; Mrs. Rota and Miss Bryant v. Ritchie and C. Harrison;, Miss. V. Death and Mrs. McAnerin v. G. W. Powdrell and McFarlane; Mrs. Ritchie and Mrs. Rudge v. Tarrant and Vinnicombc; Mrs. Davy and Miss Pease play Veale and Ablett; Miss Buist and Miss Meyrick v. , 4 Lawn and S. Anderson; Miss Reilly and Mrs. Vinnicombc v. G. A. Meyrick and McAnerin; Mrs. McKenzie and Miss Glenn v. Williams and Young; Miss Ryan and Miss Murray v. Morgan and Veitch. Members unable to play'are to notify the.secretary. . SOUTH TARANAKI CRICKET. FIXTURES FOR~TO-MORROW. This week’s fixtures for the South Taranaki cricket competition should prove to be most interesting. At Hawera there will be two senior and two'junior matches. Okaiawa . will meet Old Boys B, and High School play against Old Boys A. The former match should be a close one if both teams play to form. High School scored a good win against Patea, and the team showed good form, whereas though Old Boys made a sorry display against Stratford, it is a team capable of very much better cricket. Hawera visits Patea and will have to . improve to win. Stratford visits Kaponga and, provided Stan. Betts does not get set again, should make things interesting. Stratford has a most useful bowling combination in Wilson and Hamilton, both of whom bowled well last week and with more practice should show improved form. The junior matches will be between High School B and Stratford and High School A and Stratford Technical High School. On its home ground School should have .more confidence than it showed last week.

The Hawera team will be.—Giblin, Crombie, Nielsen, Hughes, Jennings, Fairweather, Hawke, Shaw, McKenzie, Boesley and Kennedy. The team will meet at the Hawera Post Office, at 1.15 p.m. The Okaiawa: team will be:—Crawford, Thomae, Betts, Linn, Atkins, Eden (2), 'Watson, Skipper, Murdoch, Penny and Newman.

dairy produce market. The Farmers’ Co-op. reports having received the following cable advice from its London principals, Messrs. Andrew Clement and Son: “Butter steady, 110 s to 114 s; cheese firm, white 745. coloured 71s-'*