THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1411, 10 May 1917, Page 37

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

A list of 480 awards of the Royal Red Cross decoration to matrons,

Mr. and Mrs. J. Studbolme, of Ruanui, have gone to Fiji for the winter.

For military reasons the Army Council has forbidden the sending of blankets to British prisoners in Germany.

Two hundred Chinese seamen, stranded in Liverpool, are to work on the land.

Mr. Findlay., of the Carterton office of the Department of Agriculture, is being transferred to North Auckland.

Ducks are reported to be fa ; rly numerous on the lakes and lagoons in the Wairarapa district.

Six sons of Mr. W. H. Haswell, of Auckland, are serving in His Majesty’s Forces.

Mr. Trevor M. Geddis, sub-editor of the “Napier Daly Telegraph,” has gone into camp.

Mr. Edward Scattergood, the oldest retired Civil Servant in Great Britain, has died at Lascotts Road, Wood Green, aged 102.

Women and children of the British Isles have presented, through the League of Empire, a silk flag and shield to Rhodesian soldiers.

To each of 350 wounded soldiers in Willesden Green hospitals, local tradesmen have presented a safety razor.

Mr. C. S. Young, of Messrs. Young and Collins, Wanganui, is on a tour of • Australia and the United States for the benefit of his health.

Mr. W. Wilson, formerly of Canterbury College and Auckland University, is now in charge of the fuse department of a large munition factory m England.

Mr. Cecil Hill, the well-known Hendon aviation instructor, has arrived in Christchurch to take charge of the Avation School.

Life insurance dates from almost the year 1650, and was the invention of the Chevalier de Mere, a Flemish nobleman, and the Abbe Blaise Pascal, the famous Jesuit priest.

For twice purchasing Service rifles from a private of the Dublin Fusiliers, Peter O’Keefe, a bread van

driver, was by a court martial at Cork sentenced to five years’ penal servitude.

Captain Eric Mackenzie, M.C. (R.A.M.C.), son of Dr. Wallace Mackenzie, of Wellington, has been appointed Staff Captain at Administrative Headquarters of the R.A.M.C., Blackpool, England.

Buffalo Bill, the popular old showman, who died in America a few months back, left £12,000 to his widow. His estate mostly consisted of ranch land which he had acquired in recent years.

Mr. A. G. Melville, sub-manager of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd., has arrived in the Dominion from Australia on a visit of inspection to the various branches in New Zealand.

Captain Humphrey Grace, who is serving with the Indian Army in Mesopotamia, has been awarded the Military Cross. Captain Grace is a son of Archdeacon Grace, of Nelson.

Mr. William F. Whiteing, of Broadstairs, a “whip” popularly known as “Daddy” to visitors from Broadstairs to Canterbury in the old coaching days, has died aged 79.

Sentence of one month’s hard labour was imposed at a London police court on a stoker for having smoking materials in his possession at a mun tion factory. In defence he said he had no locker.

“The soldier likes his beer, and if he does not get it his temper is apt to be affected,” said Lieutenant-Col-onel Gordon Leith at a recent meeting of the Farmers’ Club at Newcastle, England.

Captain Baldwin, who has acted as military representative before the First Wellington Military Service Board since its appointment, has been appointed assistant director of recruiting.

sisters, and nurses in hospitals throughout the country “in recognition of their valuable services in connection with the war” has been published in a supplement to the “London Gazette.” Included in the list is a number of awards to members of the overseas nursing services.

Mr. J. F. Clark, of Wellington, wellknown in business and sporting circles, left last month on a health trip to Australia. Mr. Clark’s medical adviser orders a complete rest and change, and his tour in Australia on this account will be a comprehensive one. We join with his many friends in wishing him a speedy return to busmess activities.

A popular Tasmanian dictor, Colonel W. W. Giblin, lately director of Australan Hospitals in London, has returned from the front to his home in Hobart. Colonel Giblin was invested at Buckingham Palace by the King with the Order of Companion of the Bath, after rendering valuable services at Gallipoli.

Mr. J. B. Harcourt, president of the Navy League in Wellington, stated at the Anzac dinner held in that city, that out of £120,000 raised for the widows and orphans of men killed in the Battle of Jutland, the Dominion gave no less than £97,000.

Mr. J. Carlile Wh teman, of Christchurch, has received word from England that his brother, Colonel J. Whiteman, of the 2nd Middlesex Regiment, has been promoted to the rank of major-general, in command of the Hawke Brigade.

It has been decided to erect a memorial stone in the Featherstone military" cemetery in remembrance of the soldiers interred there. The names of the men Will be recorded on the stone, and provision will be made for inscribing any additional names wh’ch may be necessary in the future. Designs are being called for.

A branch of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society has been formed in Te Aroha with the following officers: President, Mr. A. J. Clarke; vicepresidents, Messrs. F. M. Strange and A. Wigg; secretary and delegate, Mr. A. J. Burrows; committee, Messrs. L. Clark, F. W. Wild, J. Harbidge and E. Blundell.

“Germans are champion boasters,” says Zakaree Ermakov, who has just concluded a season at the Auckland Opera House. “One old man in Dusseldorf was continually dinning

into my ears wonderful descriptions of the mighty deeds he himself had performed on the battlefield; how single-handed he had charged the guns, and bayoneted the Frenchmen with such rapidity as to strike his own General dumb with astonishment and admiration. Yet he was a mild and sheepish looking old fellow, and I rather think his deed of daring more imaginary than real.”

Mr. M. McGregor, of Auckland, who qualified as a pilot at the Kohimarama Flying School, and later passed through the Royal Fly ng Corps training school at Home, has now been granted his commission, and has gone to the front.

Alan Woodman, the well-known cyclist has gone into camp at Featherston, where he will be drafted into the Army Service Corps.

Mr. W. J. Stutt, chief pilot of the New South Wales Aviation School, was married the other day to Miss Stella Reddan, of Melbourne. Mr. Stutt is a native of Victoria, and as a youth left for England to study aviation. He had a successful career, and returned to Australia last year at the request of the New South Wales Government.

“My boy,” said the successful merchant, “never let your capital lie idle. Remember that money talks, but it doesn’t talk in its sleep.”—“Boston Post.”

It is officially announced that dependents of capta ns and officers taken prisoners at sea are to have the same allowance as that now paid in the case of men killed on active service. A wife’s allowance will be one-third of her husband’s pre-war wages, with an extra allowance for each child up to four.

The Taihape sheep art union resulted approximately n about £3500 being raised, and the net proceeds are expected to reach £3250. Of this amount the Taihape branch of the Red Cross Society received £2250, while the Wellington and Wanganui branches will benefit by nearly £9OO each.

The death occurred in Auckland recently of Mr. Henry Andrew Gordon, A.M.1.C.E., F.G.S., formerly inspecting Engineer of Mines for New Zealand. He was well known as the author of a “Miners’ Guide and Engineering,” which s used as a standard text book in all the schools of mines in the Dominion.

Major G. R. Blackett. M.C., who left New Zealand as a lieutenant in the Nelson squadron of the Canterbury Mounted Regiment, in the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and who won the Military Cross and promotion on the field at Gallipoli, has been attached to the

staff of the Canterbury Mil tary D trict.

For exhibiting his wife as a “fasting lady” in a glass case at premises in Oldham Street, Manchester, without charging an entertainment tax Archibald Henry Kitley was recently fined £5 at Manchester. Kitley said the exhibition was purely educational. The Magistrate: Do you mean it teaches people how small an amount of food they can live upon and shows the Food Controller what regulations he might make? Yes.

Just at present the post office at Trentham Camp is having a comparatively quiet time, says a Wellington paper, but recently, when there were large numbers of men in the camp, the postal staff were very busy. Next to the post office at Featherston Camp, Trentham Camp post office puts through more business than any town in New Zealand, except the four centres, and in the matter of telegrams it eclipses Featherston Camp’s record. Outward bound from the camp last month went 30,000 letters, 400 registered letters, 2000 packets and 600 parcels, the latter totalling 40001 b in weight. The inward bags were heavier in some respects. Letters numbered 27,000, registered letters 150, packets 4000, and parcels 1000, of 50001 b weight. Over 6000 money orders are handled by the post office in a week, while one day’s telegrams in a recent week totalled 1000 outwards and 650 inwards.

Mr. Joseph lorns, the oldest auctioneer in the Wairarapa, who is rearing from active work, was entertained by the staffs of the combined auctioneering firms on a recent Saturday, and presented with a motor coat.

Mr. Selwyn Joyce, son of the late Mr. John Joyce, for many years member of Parliament for Lyttelton, arrived in Auckland last week, after 14 years residence in America, where he was engaged in journaPstic and theatrical work. Mr. Joyce served in the first, seventh and eighth New Zealand Contingents in the Boer War, hold ng commissions in the latter two, and his purpose in returning is to join the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Anglers in the Manawatu district state that the past season has been a very unsatisfactory one, small baskets being the invariable experience andpractically no large fish were taken. Some give as a reason for the poor sport that the fish have not been “on the take,” and others that the Manawatu is not well stocked, but whatever the cause anglers are agreed that the past season is one of the worst in the r experience.

Mr. Broome Smith, F.R.G.S., whose missionary travels in Africa have covered a vast area of territory, is touring Australia and New Zealand on deputation work. Mr. Smith has translated the Bible into five languages, and has done much medical and pioneering work bes des, and in recognition of his travels has had the honour of being elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He returns to Africa later to take up m ssion work in South Niger a.

In 1912 Mr. Ermakov, who is appearing on the Fuller Circuit, wrote to several leading m litary men in Britain and France, stat ing that towards the end of 1914 Germany would seize Belgium and Northern France, while Turkey attacked the Suez Canal. Among several replies he exhibits with some pride was an autograph letter from Lord Roberts, dated November 18, 1912, in wh ch he wrote: “Dear Sir, —I am much obliged for your letter of the 11th instant, which conforms with what I have heard from other sour es. I trust that before it ! s 100 late I may be able to rouse the British nation to a sense of the danger it is in on account of the unpreparedness of the country and its want of patriotism.—Yours very truly, Roberts, F.M.”

Mr. S. George Nathan, of Wellington, is on a motor tour of the Wairarapa and Manawatu districts.

Sheep farming, declared Mr. W. F. Massey, Premier of New Zealand, during a recent lecture in London, was the pleasantest of all kinds of farm ng. Constant attention and looking after the sheep were necessary. Practically the whole of the New Zealand sheep were shorn by machinery, which had been greatly improved, and was now nearly as perfect as was possible. Women had not yet taken part in shearing, but he knew one lady of a well-known family who during the last two shear'ng seasons had looked after the sheep shearing machinery and had classified the wool. This last operation required a certain amount of experience, and a very great deal of skill. The lady did ft satisfactorily, and she did the work because her husband was at the front. (Applause.) She was the descendant of a former representative of New Zealand in London, when the official title was that of Agent-Gen-eral.

The New York “Morning Telegraph” of February forecasts: “With only one untoward act on the part of Germany waiting to throw this country of peace-lovers into the holocaust which has been wagng in Europe for nearly three years, and with the authorities of the nation lining up their resources in the event of war, the motion picture industry has been preparing itself from a patriotic viewpoint. Only the magic word “war” is awaited by the ndustry to throw its entire resources into the hands of the Government. Motion picture plants cannot turn out munitions; but their directors can do almost as much —they can turn out films which, in hundreds of ways, could influence public sentiment on behalf of the Government, if such influence was needed. They can aid recruiting; they have a’ded in the fight for preparedness, and are still in the midst of the struggle to put this country on a better foundation in the event that it becomes necessary for Uncle Sam to again bare his knuckles in national defence.”

Amongst those staying at the Central Hotel, Auckland, last week were:— Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Evans, Whannrarei; Mr. A. Bell, Morrinsville; Mr. H. B. Boys, Melbourne; Mr. H. Elpenbriu, Westport: Captain Bell, Mr. H. W. Clark, Trentham; Miss G. Hogwood, Raglan; Mrs. Foote, Mrs. Price, Mr. C. Judd, Thames; Mr. and Mrs. E. H. McJnnes, Mr. H. Hale, Mr. L. V. Kulling, Mr. W. Morton. Mr. H Edwards, Mr. M. Johnston, Wellington; Mr. G. McDonald, Mr. A. McDonald, Mr. R. McMillan, Hamilton; Mr. C. Baine. Mr. D. L. Summers, Te Aroha; M-. and Mrs. Harcourt, Suva; Mr. M. Callan, Honolulu; Mr J. B. Sellars, Hawera; Mr. J. M. Collins, Mr. E. Collins. Palmerston North; Mr. E. Hargrave, Mr. W. Lamb, Mr. E. Purke Mr. J. Reid, Dunedin; Mr. W. Wardrop, Timaru; Mr. R. Screaton, Mr. R. Carruth, Okoroire; Mr. H. Thomson, Mr J. Knight. New Plymouth; Mr. E. R. Hastie, Mr. A. Hastie, Manaia; Mr. R. Roberts, Miss S. Wynne, Christchurch; Mr. S. Corbert, Blenheim; Mr. W. Saunders, Nelson; Misses Green, Hastings; Mrs. Grey, Wanganui; Mr. S. Henton, Mr. S. J. Smith. Otago.

Among the guests at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru, during the past week were:—Mrs. F Riddiford, Mrs. H. F. Arkwright, Marton; Mr. F. W. King. Mr. N. Stephenson, Wellington; Mr. G. B. Cumming, Mr. A. Mr. H. P. Dalwood Mr. G. H. Williams, M’ - . S. Watkins, Mr. C H. Croxton. Mr. C. S. Young, Mr. H. Andersen. Mr. L. Prebble, Mr. and Mrs. A. Duncan, Mr. S. T. Hincksman, Mr. A. J. Daly, Mr. S. Lucas. Mr. P. Gill, Mr A. Tuner. Mr. R. King, Mr. A. Queree, Mr. E. H. Rogers Mr. F. Hobbs, Mr. J. F. Grierson, Mr. F. Whitehead, Mr. D. Ronayne, Mr. J A. Philp, Mr. C. W. Anderson. Christchurch; Mr. W. F. Hamilton. Ashwick Flat; Mr. E. Stronach, Mr. J. Bottle, Oamaru; Mr. P. Horspool. Mr. H. W. Airey, Auckland; Mr.- H. Clark, Mr. H. Upton, Mr. J. Show, Mr. and Mrs. Ralston, Mr. G. H. Trott, Mr. E. Nicol, Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. F. Merrill, Perth; Mr. R. A. Dixon, Geraldine; Mr. and Mrs. P. Thompson, Miss Thompson, Mr. C. E. Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Graham, Master Graham, Sydney; Mr. W. Keddell, Mr. W. T. Boyd, Pahiatua.

BLIND HERO’S PAPER. INVALIDED ANZAC, WHO IS AT PRESENT IN NEW ZEALAND, WORKS FOR HIS COMRADES. Every New Zealander is conversant with the heroic sacrifice made by Clutha Mackenzie, son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissoner for New Zealand, who, when only 19 years of age, had his sight totally destroyed in Gallipoli whilst fighting with the Dominion troops. Young Mackenzie is in the Dominion at the present moment with the object of establishing the “Chron’cles of the N.Z.E.F.” (New Zealand Expeditionary Force), a journal which he commenced on his return to London and has edited with very scanty and entirely amateur assistance, in an altered form, as a permanent weekly New Zealand newspaper. The production is a most creditable one in every respect, and chronicles the doings of the New Zealand soldiers in a bright and courageous manner, testify ng to the manly and courageous spirit of this young soldier, upon whom a terrible blow has fallen. The publication has met with universal appreciation throughout Great Britain and among his brave comrades in France, and that his praiseworthy efforts w ll attract whole-hearted admiral on and support in this country can be safely predicted. The journal is certain to be extended the widest patronage from those who have the welfare at heart of those brave lads who have ventured forth from the Dominion to assist the Old Country in upholding the righteous cause of the Allies in the great war against German oppression and barbarism. The “Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F.” has been published fortn’ghtly in England, and we are in receipt of a booklet containing press notices of this interesting magazine, all of which speak in glowing terms of what is regarded as “the most wonderfully produced paper in the world.” A decidedly interesting feature of the paper, which is published at 11, Southampton Row, London, and sold at 6d-. (troops 3d.), ’s “Peregrinations of a Trooper,” in which Mr. Mackenzie details his own experiences on active service in a series of articles. A brief history of this remarkable paper will be of interest to our readers. It was started by two young heroes. One. the editor (Mr. Clutha Mackenzie), is blind. The other, the ass stant editor, is minus a leg. The editor sits down at a typewriting machine at a comfortable lounge for soldiers in Southampton Row and taps out editor'al articles and racy sketches of life as he has seen it. On his return from Gallipoli, where he was blinded, young Mackenzie, instead of grieving and do'ng nothing, he smiled, learned typing, began work with a wounded comrade, planned out the paper, and made a success of it. “Two of us started it,” he said when recently questioned regarding the commencement of the magazine. “Neither of us knew anything about journalism. We were a pretty couple. At the beginning we had no secretary to help us, but we got on jolly well. I do the ‘making up’ on the pages of the previous number. I can feel,” he said with a snrle. “Practically all the contributions are voluntary, and are from officers and men in the New Zealand forces. The ‘Chronicles’ is liked and looked for. It goes to the camps and hospitals where our New Zealanders are, and to the front and over to New Zealand itself. One of our officers, Lieutenant J. H. Gilmour, drew the cartoon on the front page, and he has done some real Bairnsfathery pictures for our inside pages.”

Mr. Raynor C. Bell, of Masterton, has been appointed the honorary Wairarapa representative of the Associated Board, R.A.M., and R.C.M. (London), in place of Mr. A. B. Wallaco, who has resigned.

The death is announced from Sydney of Mr. Henry Carey Dangar, Legislative Councillor, and a prominent pastoralist and horse-breeder.

“There are no less than 9000 total boats guarding the coast of Britain at present,” declared Mr C. J. Parr in an address at Te Aroha recently. He described the wonderful work of the minesweepers and longshoremen in the present war. “I take off my hat in admiration to the longshoremen of Great Britain,” declared the speaker amid applause.

Gunner R. J. Ballantyne, the wellknown Wellington athlete, ran second in a seven mile cross-country team race at Harrowby recently.,A field of 185 starters, composed of New Zealanders, Australians, and British soldiers faced the pistol, and of this total the Scottish harrier was second, for which he received a gold medal. Ballantyne was blocked for the first three miles, and only lost by fifteen seconds. The winner’s time was 43 minutes.

A most ingenious form of the Morse signalling lamp has been perfected for use in connection with the present war. The apparatus consists of a small fitting placed inside the barrel of a rifle, signalling being efiected by means of a switch attached to the trigger. When tfie signaller wishes to communicate with some point he aims the rifle containing the lamp at the point at which the corresponding s'gnal is situated. The great advantage of this arrangement is that the enemy cannot possibly intercept the signal, for the dispersion of light, even at considerable distances, is very small, and the flashes can be seen only directly along the line on which the barrel is aimed. Signals from this rifle Morse lamp have been read with the naked .eye up to 800 yards at night, and with a telescope from twice this distance. At three-quarters of a mile tests have shown the lateral d’spersion to be but four yards.

Dr. A. K. Newman, lecturing in Wellington on his recent experiences in England, dwelt largely on the war work women were doing. He mentioned the work of the V.A.D.’s and others in hospitals. In many all the orderly work was done by women, and whereas it had been said that women could not do many things, such as stretcher-carrying, it was found they were doing these things and so releasing men for active service. Dr. Newman spoke of several New Zealand women who were doing their bit in the Old Country. He touched also on the scarcity of food in England, saying it was necessary for such places as New Zealand to make sacrifices, and send as much as possible of our produce Home.