THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1412, 17 May 1917, Page 37

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE. Colonel J. R. Purdy, Director of Medical Services., has returned to Wellington from Auckland, where he has been engaged on departmental business in connection with the return of troops. * * * * Miss Myra McKinnon, of Waihua, is the first Wairoa young lady to take up the work of a drover, which she is carrying out with success, says a country exchange. ♦ ♦ * * Lieutenant Mariner Holm, whose name appears in the ballot list, left Wellington eighteen months ago to join the Royal Navy. , He was appointed to one of His Majesty’s ships, and has been on active service ever since. ♦ * * * Major J. L. Sleeman. 1.G.5., Director of Military Training, has returned to Wellington after an inspectional and instructional tour of the South Island.

One thousand submarines a day is the startling offer that Mr. Henry Ford, the motor builder, has made to the United States Government. “I am ready to do my share, if there is to be war,” he says. “I am able and I am willing to build daily 1000 small submarines and 300 motors at my various plants, where 42,000 men are employed. I am a pacifist, but a pacifist is the hardest man to frighten that you have ever seen when he is finally crowded into a corner and has to fight. President Wilson is also a pacifist but if he gets into action he will exhibit the qualities of a roaring lion.” The submarines that Mr. Ford mentions as being able to turn out at the rate of 1000 a day are only 20 feet long, and can be operated by one man or more if required. The Navy Department believes that these will be most useful for coast defence, river and harbour protection, and for carrying on the decks of warships for use at sea.

“I am a New Zealand industrialist out and out.” declared Mr. J. B. Laurenson at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Industrial Association, “and if New Zealand is go ; ng to be anything in the future she has got to develop her industries. If she is going to do anything. with the brains that are born in New Zealand, she has got to develop that brain and develop industriaPy. If she is going to depend on any other country she is going to sink below the level that we as Britishers aim at. Our ultimate success and our ultimate position in the Pacific depend upon our development industrially.”

The acclimatisation of quinnat salmon in New Zealand waters has proved a great success, and answers may look forward to some good snort, says the “Southland Times.” The Hon. G. W. Russell stated to a reporter that the "fish had been coming up various r’vers in the South Island in considerable numbers. “The Chief inspector of Fisheries (Mr. Avson) has supplied a renort which contains a good deal of interesting information ” sa'd the Minister. “He savs that from information given by angJers. some of whom have fished the Waitaki and the Raneritata. all the season, it would seem that about 400 salmon have been taken from the Waitaki and about 200 from the Raneitata. The largest fish taken was and the average is stated to be about 161 b. According to these figures, about three tons of salmon

wer taken from the Waitaki River and about a ton and a-half from the Rangitata, between 21st January and 31st March. Mr. Ayson recommends that next season angling for salmon in certain rivers should be legalised, and that rivers in which the fish have been taken in fair numbers should be declared salmon rivers, and that special licenses should be issued for the taking of salmon in those rivers.”

News has been received that Lieut. J. T. Lang, son of Mr. J. T. Lang late of Palmerston North, has been awarded the Military Cross.

In future no cable containing information about a ship, her cargo, or insurances will be allowed to be despatched until it has been censored by an officer of the Marine Department at Wellington.

At the annual meeting of the executive of the Waikato sub-provincial district of New Zealand Farmers’ Union, the following remit from the Hamilton branch was carried unanimously: “That territorial camps be discontinued dur ng the continuation of the war.” j

The Australian people have contributed to war funds of all kinds with a generosity not excelled anywhere (says the Melbourne “Age”). Not less than £6,619,252 has been raised throughout Australia. This does not take account of the incalculable supplies sent to the soldiers, privately and through committees, and the incessant free work done without ostentation by many men and women since Australia first entered the war.

On the opening day of the shooting season, Sergeant Burrowes, of Invercargill, and Messrs. T. J. Holland and H. Windle, of Gore, visited portion of the Waimea Plains and succeeded in bagging 39 ducks (says the Mataura “Ensign”). They were camped in a tent, and next morning went out for a second day’s sport, leaving the birds securely locked up, as they thought, in their motor car. On reaching the machine again after a few hours’ shooting it was found that the car had been unlocked and 35 out of the 39 ducks had disappeared.

At the Patriotic Society’s Anzac dinner in Wellington recently, the chairman (Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P.)

told a good story of a returned Anzac soldier in “civic” clothes who was riding in a crowded Sydney tranicar. A lady got in, and the Anzac, ever courteous, rose and said, “Take my seat, madam.” “I never take the seat of a shirker,” she replied freezingly. The Anzac thereupon opened his shirt, and, showing two wounds, said, “Madam, I have been at Gallipoli. If we had had as much powder at Gallipoli as you have got on your face we would have got Constantinople.” (Laughter.)

Captan C. E. Maguire, N.Z.M.C., superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, has been granted temporary rank of major whilst in charge of the military wards of the Auckland Hospital.

Mr. John Bishop ei.-jcys the unique distinction of having served for thirtysix years without a break on the Highcliff (Hawke’s Bay) School Committee.

A German machine gun captured from the Turks at Gallipoli by a party of soldiers in charge of Lieutenant Gordon Harper, of Christchurch, has been presented to the Canterbury Museum.

Mr. Joseph Chadwick, of Remuera, has received official information, together with hearty congratulations, from the Hon. J. Allen, Minister of Defence, that his eldest son, Sergt. Joseph Chadwick, has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry in the field of action. Sergt. Chadwick also served in the Boer War in South Africa, and has two brothers, Herbert and Ernest, with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, the 'first-named in Egypt and the other in France. Sergt. Chadwick was in the Aotea Convalescent Home, Heliopolis, Cairo, during the latter part of January and until the last week in February, but hoped, when he wrote, to be with his comrades in arms the following week. He left with the sth, but is now with the 9th Mounted Brigade in Egypt, and was in engagements on the borders of the Holyland early in the present year.

Te Aotea Convalescent Home, above referred to, was promoted by Misses M. McDonell and M. MacDonald, both of Wanganui, for members of the N.Z. Expeditionary Forces, who, after a spell in hospital, need rest and comforts prior to rejoining their regiments, and has housed as many as eighty members —its full capacity. Its history furnishes an example of the energy, the self sacrifice and loving thoughts of our women folk, as to women it owes its existence. Established and well managed, and assisted by the N.Z. Government New Zealand soldiers from the North Cape to the Bluff reverence the name of Aotea, and the (ad’es named, with the assistance of Miss M. Duncan, also of Wanganui, and Mrs. P. McLaren, of Home Bush, Wairarapa, caused the project to take practical shape, and energetic ladies’ committees were formed. The patriotic people of Wanganui. Rangitikei and Wairarapa responded well, and the managing

ladies and staff of Aotea will never be forgotten by those who have found it a home away from home. A bright little illustrated 16-page paper, called “The Aotean,” published by the patients, was started in March, 1916, and “Le Journal de Scandale,” “the unofficial organ of the Aotea Home,” is also a humorous production, issued with apologies to the “Aotean,” and is brimful of praise of the Aotea institution.

Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McMillan, who have been at Te Aroha for some time past, have returned to Auckland, and are staying at the Grand Hotel.

It is stated authoritatively that as many as 29 tons of nails of all sizes were used in the construction of hutments and other buildings at the Featherston Camp.

Captain Hector N. McLeod, staff adjutant for the Wellington National Reserve, who is proceeding to England on special service, was met by a number of the Reserve officers, and presented with a suitably inscribed wristlet watch.

During a trip of one of the steamers to Vancouver three men of Shackleton’s party were on board. They were dubbed the “Penguins,” and were so much admired that two of them became engaged before reaching Vancouver! The third, Captain Worsley (“Wuzzey”), who is the hero of the 700-mile trip in an open boat over a sea strewn with ice floes, is already married, or no doubt he would have shared a similar fate. The whole party became most popular, and kept everybody alive, they were so full of vim and good spirits. An enthusiastic admirer has ordered a tiny penguin from the Red Cross Toy Depot as a memento of the “bon voyage,” says a Sydney paper.

There are few songs with a more romantic “life story” than the “StarSpangled Banner.” It came into existence during the English and American war of 1814. Francis Scott Key, a young American lawyer, wishing to obtain the release of a friend, who was a prisoner on board an English vessel, rowed out to the ship, and received the necessary assurance that freedom would be restored to him. But Key and his friend were not allowed to go ashore immediately, as the English were about to attack Fort McHenry. During the bombardment Key fixed his eyes on the be-starred and be-striped flag which floated over the fort, and it was still flying at nightfall. When dawn came and Key saw the old flag still flying his joy gave rise to the sentiments expressed in the first verse of the song, and on reaching shore with his friend he finished the poem. The tune to which it is sung, however, is not American, but that of an old English song composed by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society. It was sung at the meetings of this old English club, which usually held its revelries at the Crown and Anchor, in the Strand. That would be about 1780.

Mr. A. McCosh Clark, who has been accepted for active service, has resigned h’s seat on the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.

Capt. D. R. Hardie of Palmerston North, who left New Zealand as a lieutenant in the 2nd Reinforcements, has been promoted to the rank of major.

Second-Lieut. Harold W. Shackelford, of the Machine-gun Corps, who is on the western front, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant.

News has been received st Hastings of the drowning at sea of Private R. C. S. Fitzroy. only remaining son of Mr. C. A. F’tzroy, of Havelock Nortn.

Mr. Allan Sanell, 8.A., of Dunedin, has received notice of his appointment to the staff of the Wellington Boys’ College.

Shackleton’s gallant little ship, the Aurora, is lying in Sydney Harbour, looking none the worse for her perilous voyage to the South Pole. She is to be used as a collier.

The secretary of the Southland War Funds AssociaPon has received a communication from the High Commissioner, which states that through the courtesy of the people of Southland in subscribing £25 to the Union Jack Club, London, all members of the New Zealand Forces have been made regular members of the club for the year 1917.

The wholesale slaughter of pigeons in the Motu distr’ct, Poverty Bay, was referred to at a northern accl ? - matisation society’s annual meeting The slaughter, one member stated, had been greater than ever, though it was a closed season, and an instance was given of over 40 having been killed in one day, and this, it was said, had been going on right through the season.

Mr. R. G. Henderson, representative of Messrs. J. and R. Morley, London, is leaving New Zealand for Austral a to represent Messrs. J. and R. Morley in Melbourne.

Major G. R. Blackett, M.C., who left New Zealand as a lieutenant in the Nelson squadron of the Canter bury Mounted Regiment, in the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionarv Force, and who won the Militarv Cross and promot’on on the field at

Gallipoli, has been attached to the staff of the Canterbury military district.

As an indication of the shortage of labour on farms in South Canterbury, a letter written by Mr. R. J. McKeown, of “Kinnoull,” to the Farmers’ Union, may be quoted. Mr. McKeown, in apologising for his absence from the meeting, wrote: “I am obliged to stop at home and do the most necessary work, as I have no ploughmen, no cowboys, and no shepherd on ray farm of 3000 acres, and 1 have 4000 sheep to look after.” :|: * *

Dr. J. Allen Thomson, Curator of the Dominion Museum, has gone to South Canterbury to look at some of the rock drawings there, which are supposed to belong to a period an terlor to the coming of the Maori. He will also prospect some limestone deposits, 'n a search for phosphates.

Captain F. S. Goldingham, of the Sixth Manawatu Mounted Rifles, has been appointed A.Q.M.G. on the Auckland district staff, in place of Captain H. de F. Garland, who is. shortly proceeding on active service.

Mr. John M. Barr, a prominent business man in Palmerston North, before leaving to take up farming pursuits in the Northern Wairoa, was presented by the directors of Manson and Barr with a gold watch and by the staff of the firm with a gold albert.

The detah occurred in Dunedin recently of Mr. E. L. Palmer, a son of the late Mr. J. Palmer, inspector of the Union Bank. The deceased was a sheep farmer in Poverty Bay and a member of the Gisborne Harbour Board.

The death occurred in Dunedin reMr. Thos. Shaw, one of the oldest residents of the Hauraki goldfields, and a former chairman of the Ohinemuri County Council. He was manager of several mines, and was afterwards an inspector under the Public Works Department when Thames Valley and Waihi railway lines were being constructed.

The South African rifleman is the best paid in the world. A recruit on passing out of the depot receives no less than ss. per diem, free uniform, rations, etc. This pay is increased annually and, if after completing five years’ service, he is of good character, iie receives 7s. 6d. per diem, with everything found. Formerly it was poss’ble for a rifleman to draw as much as 9s.

Mr. Vincent Ward, second son of Sir Joseph Ward, has obtained a commlss'on in the R.N.V.R. Mr. Ward was in Canada when war broke out, and about that time had a nervous breakdown, due to overwork. He has endeavoured on several occasions to get a commission in the Army, and was for some time in an officers’ training corps, but was again put on the sick l ; st. He is now an assistant paymaster in the R.N.V.R.

Castlepoint station, on the east coast from Masterton, has, reports the “Wairarapa Age,” been offered to the Government for the purpose of settlement by returned soldiers. The estate cons sts of 16,000 acres, but 2000 acres are being reserved. Should the Government not take the property, it is the intention of the owners to privately subdivide and dispose of it. '

Mr. A. N. Polson, of the Ministerial Secretarial Staff, has recently reenlisted for service.

Lieutenant Gladstone Ward, A.S.C., Sir Joseph Ward’s Hi rd son, has left London for the Eastern front. Mr. Vincent Ward, Sir Joseph’s second son, is an assistant paymaster in the R.N.V.R.

Sergeant L. M. Isitt, N.Z.R.8.. has obtained a commission in the Royal Flying Corps.

Captain G. B. Banks (formerly of Invercargill), N.Z.S.C., has been granted the temporary rank of major while employed as camp quartermaster, Featherston, with effect from April 4th, 1917.

Mr. A. E. Cheal, assistant tramways engineer to the Wanganui borough, has qualified for his aero pilot’s certificate. Mr. Chea 1 ., who is at present on leave from mil'tary service, has been in camp at the New Zealand Flying School for the past four months.

It is reported from Rotorua that a new blowhole has formed about •in eighth of a mile from the original geyser at WaimangL. Visitors are able to approach the spot to within a few feet, although a great volume of steam is still being belched.

Among the guests at the Royal Hotel, Auckland, last week were the following:—Mr. and Miss Rutherford, Alfreston; Mr C. Ludbrook, Ohaeawai, Mr R A. Wiggins, Tuohia; Mr. A. Barry, Mr. F. Worsfold, Feilding; Mr. F Steadman, Dr. and Mrs. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. W. Mackesy. Whangarei; Mr. and Mrs. N. Jacobs, Mr. D. Bohan, Mr. and Mrs. Whittle, Mr. J. Samuel, Mr. and Mrs. H. Musker and sons, Wellington; Mr. M. J. Hargreaves, Bay of Islands; Mr. A. Allen, Mr. H. White. Sydney; Mr. F. J Cotter, Miss E. Pascoe Mr. R. W. Humphrey, Timaru; Mr.. Mrs and Misses Green, Tokomaru Bay; Miss L. MacDonald, Gisborne; Mr. B. Coleman, Dargaville; Mr. and Mrs. S. Oldfield, Waiuku; Mr. J. Whiteman, Christchurch; Mr. and Mis. P. Frederic, New Plymouth; Mr. H. R Atkinson. Tauranga; Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Rudman, Thames.

Arrivals at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru. during last week included:Mr S. Nettleback. Sydney; Mr. A. W. Whately, Mr. B. N. Jacobs Mr Whittaker, Mr. A. Jacobs, Mr. F. Eller, Mr. JED. Norwood, Mr. M. Halley. Wellington; Mr. C. Louisson, Mr. A McCreedin, Mr. C. H. E. Chester, Mr. A. Macfarlane, Mr. A P. Hopkins, Mr. J. G. Longuet. Mr. L. P. Symes, Mr. H. Ellis, Mr. E. C. Armitage, Mr. R. Graham, Mr. R. King, Mr. S. Jacobs, Mr. M. Dalziel, Mr. G. H Mason Mr. G. D. Cumming, Christchurch; Mr. L. Sanderson, Mr. J. Shaw, Mr. D. Stewart Mr F. J. Jones. Mr. J. Moody, Mr. D Cameron, Mr. E L. Macassey, Mr. and Mrs. R. Acton Adams, Mr. H. Walklv, Mr. W. Kain and two children, Mrs and Miss McGill, Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. H.- E. Newman, Misses Newman (2). Mr. R. A. Newman, Mr. and Mrs. Allport, Mrs. Strachan, Mr. W Dee Mr. A. Gould, Nelson; Mr. and Mrs’ J. Ford, Foxdown; Mr. and Mrs. A Reid, New Plymouth; Mr. J. MacFarlane, Rangiora; Mrs. P. Ballantyne, Pareora; Mr. H. MacFarlane, North Canterbury.

Guests at the Central Hotel. Auckland, last week included the following: Mr. R. W Fear, Pukekohe; Mrs. F J A Fear t Mr. H. Saunders, Mr. S. C.’ Hancock, Mr. L. B. Stokes, Mr. J. Hay Wellington: Mrs. S. Newbourne, Mr.’ and Mrs. W. E Silvester. Mr. H. C. Holland. Sydney; Mr. G. Duncalf, Mr Cecil Pea-son, Mrs. Couling, Hamilton; Mr. V. J. Smith, Mr. H. Hinton, Mr and Dlrs. Burt, Miss Burt, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Bartlett, Mr. W. Peterson, Dunedin; Mr. J Watts, Hastings; Mr. S. Newton, Westport; Mr. R. Wyns, Napier; Mr. S. Green, Mr. Fraser, New Plymouth; Mr. H. Harding, Nelson; Mr. H L. Warner, Mr. J. Knight, Otago; Mr. S. Young, Thames; Mr. H. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. H C. Taylor, Wanganui; Mr. Sballcrass, Melbourne; Mr. H. Churtis, Waikua; Mr. A. D. Campbell, Scotland; Mr. London, Mr. J. Ballantyne, Waiuku; Mr. F. F. Hockly, Te Awamutu; Miss Violet Trevenyon. Christchurch; Captain and Mrs. Chaytor, Messrs. Chaytor, Marlborough; Mr. R. P. Lemm, Cambridge.

Mr. T. Bloodworth, organising secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, is at present in the South Is. land.

The name of a New Zealand prisoner of war, serving with the Australian Forces, has (says a London correspondent) recently come to the knowledge of the New Zealand Prisoners of War Department. He is 3513 Private Frank Herbert Wood, 12th Battery, Machine Gun Corps, Australian Forces. He is a prisoner at Dulmen. He was captured at Pozieres in' August last, and the next-of-kin is his sister, Mrs. W. Williams, Stratford, New Zealand.

* * * * “ Rear-Admiral Sir William Pakenham, C. 8., who was second in command of the battle cruiser fleet under Admiral Beatty., has been promoted to command the battle cruisers. Admiral Pakenham hitherto carried his flag in the Australia, but was in the New Zealand at the Battle of Jutland. He was for many years naval attache at Tokio, and was on board Admiral Togo’s flagship during the RussoJapanese war. He commanded armoured cruisers early in this war, and was previously Fourth Sea Lord.

The Balkan “News,” the organ of the Eastern Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, gives a breezy account of the recent New Zealand dinner at Salonika. There was an attendance of 35, and owing to the “exigencies of the campaign” many other New Zealanders in and around Salonika were unable to be present. Major Harper, from the chair, proposed the toast “Prosperity to New Zealand,” and said that there were two kinds of New Zealanders. There was the “pukka” sort, born and bred there, and the other people who. having once visited New Zealand, were so proud of the country that they took its name for ever after. The health of Captain A. E. W. Salt was duly honoured. Captain Sale remarked that the dinner disproved the statement that there were no New Zealanders in the Salonika force. He knew of 60 at least.

Soldiers who have lately returned from France give definite details of the desertion of the North Island soldier Nlmot. On the morning after Nimot’s disappearance a German soldier was discovered hiding in a shell hole, and was brought into the New Zealand lines. He stated that he had been reconnoitring on the previous night with an officer, who told him to get into the shell hole and wait his return. The officer, however, did not return. The New Zealanders knew that the opposing Germans were very anxious to find out their numbers and all details concerning the disposition of the troops, and they drew the conclusion that the German officer had come across Nimot, who had been escaping over No Man’s Land to join the enemy, and was so delighted at meeting him that he left his soldier comrade to get along as best he could and returned with Nimot to the German lines. A day or two later the New Zealanders captured another German soldier, and after he had been examined it was placed beyond doubt that the deductions of the New Zealanders were absolutely correct. Moreover, the fact that Nimot had given the enemy full information regarding the disposition of the lines of the New Zealanders was fully demonstrated by the manner in which the German gunners commenced to shell important positions.