GLOBE-TROTTING ANZAC

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXII, Issue 7187, 10 March 1925, Page 2

GLOBE-TROTTING ANZAC

WILL BOOST NEW ZEALAND IN ENGLAND

MR “ R. SARSFIELD’S ” TOUR

In our local and general columns recently a paragraph appeared announcing the arrival in Waihi from Katikati, where he had been seeking restoration of his health, broken at the war, of a returned soldier who gave his name aa R. S. Sarsfield, and stated that, having fully recovered, he was abont to set forth on a lecturing tour of England, with a view to advertising New Zealand, and more particularly Katikati and the Bay of Plenty district. We now note with interest'the following reference to our visitor which appeared in the Wellington Times a day, or two ago.

“A noted traveller, now in Wellington and known to many New Zealanders, is Mr R. H. Sarsfield, •' that globe-trotting Anzac ” lecturer and entertainer who is showing the scenic beauties of New Zealand by a series of lantern slides supplied by the Government.

“He has been touring extensively in England, Scotland, Ireland, Europe, the United States and Canada- Mr Sarsfield has been globe trotting for several years (ever since the conclusion of the war) with his company of entertainers, and he is doing a great deal in bringing New Zealand before the notice of people in many parts of the world. He is now back in New Zealand, having suffered a nervous breakdown after an extensive tour of Canada, and he may be seen in various parts of this Dominion before long.

“ While in Canada ho was accorded every facility by the Government of that dominion for conducting his pro paganda work, and he was given a free pass by the. Canadian National Railways between Quebec and Vancouver, being also supplied with views with which to ‘ boost ’ Canada. “ At the conclusion of his New Zealand tour Mr Sarsßeld proposes to return to the Old Country, via Canada, and will lecture in every town, both in Canada and England, where the All Blacks played. His lecturing operations will be confined principally to schools, Rotary clubs, cinemas and small theatres.

“It may surprise many people to know that Reg. Sarsfield —his touring nora-de-plume—is a son of Commodore J. F. Pinchin, 0.8. E, late of the Channel Islands, and the Royal Navy, who was recently in Wellington where he made many friends "