THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1414, 31 May 1917, Page 37

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE. Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., has resigned his position as president of the Wellington Patriotic Society. * * * * Mr. T. G. Culling, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Culling, of Victoria Avenue, Remuera, has been promoted to Flight-Lieutenant, and has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. # # * * News has . been received that Mr. Norman Brookes, the tennis player, has been apointed one of the British Red Cross Commissioners in Mesopotamia. * * * ♦ At Masterton, a bullock, presented by Sir W. Buchanan, in aid of the New Zealand Nurses’ Memorial Fund, was submitted to auction by Messrs. Dalgety and Co. and realised the sum of £13 A

Mr. Geoffrey Mulgan, the well-known Christchurch solicitor, has joined ?n O.T.C. in England. -! * * * Lieutenant L. S. Carmichael, of Wellington, has received the Military Cross for gallantry on the field in France. Lieut. Carmichael has now joined the Royal Flying Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. R. Mackesy, officer commanding the Auckland Mounted Rifles, is expected in New Zealand shortly on leave. • * * * Les Darcy, the Australian boxer, is reported to be in a critical condition. His physicians say that only his wonderful vitality will save him. * * * * Dr. G. H. Mirams, of Lower Hutt, has joined the medical staff at Trentliam camp. He has been granted the rank of captain. * * * * Mr. E. W. Relph, general manager of the New Zealand Farmers’ Cooperative Association, Limited, of Christchurch, is staying at the Grand Hotel. * * * * Mr. S. E. Fraser, of Auckland, who has been visiting Canada and the Un ted States for the past five months, is now in London.

Captain A. B. (“Banjo”) Patterson, of the Australian Forces, has been promoted to the rank of major. ♦ * * • Mr. G. Rudd, assistant manager of the Union Steamship Company, has returned from Fiji, where he has been for some months temporary manager at Suva.

Mr. E. J. Righton, secretary of the New Zealand Picture Supplies Ltd., is leaving shortly on a visit to Australia. S: * * Private Edmund Aitkenhead, who was wounded at Armentieres and invalided home, received a hearty welcome '.rom the residents of Halcombe, Wellington, who presented him with a gold medal. Private Aitkenhead also received a substantial cheque from an anonymous donor. Lieutenant H. White - Parsons, R.N.R., at one time harbourmaster at Napier, has been appointed to one of His Majesty’s warships. ® :i: * * Mr. W. Quirke, the well - known South Canterbury sportsman and mine host of the Excelsior Hotel, Timaru, is gradually recovering from his recent incapacitation. His many friends will be glad tc see him about again, and full of his usual energy.

Professor J. Macmillan Brown, who is on a visit to the Pacific Islands, is expected to return to the Dominion early in September. ♦ * * « Mr. R. H. W. Bligh, lecturer to the Australasian White Cross League, is on a visit to New Zealand. Mr. Bligh has recently conducted a lengthy campaign throughout the Commonwealth of Australia. * * * • The well-known mining expert, Mr. H. H. Adams, of Auckland, has developed a device which he thinks will successfully combat torpedo attacks. The invention has been forwarded to the Minister of Defence, who, it is understood, has sent the details on to the British Naval authorities. * * » * Mr. J. C. Prudhoe, district manager of the Government Life Insurance Department for Canterbury and West land, has retired from the Public Service on superannuation after 43 years’ service.

Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward, who reached Halifax, Nova Scotia, a few days ago, on their way to the Dominion, probably will be back in Wellington in time to attend the opening of Parliament. Ministers who have spoken recently in the Dornin ion have expressed an intention of making the session as short as possible by confining it to war legislation only. « His Excellency the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool, who have been staying in Rotorua for the past fortnight, have returned to Wellington, and will remain at Government House dur ng the period of the session. » $ 3: $ Sir James Allen, interviewed in Christchurch, dwelt on the great necessity for economy in the consumption of coal. “It is no use,” he said, “one city economising and oth-

ers not doing so. There ought to be universal economy exercised throughout the Dominion.” « * • v The following were among the guests at the Central Hotel, Auckland, last week:—Mr. E. Day, Mr. G. Runciman, Tamahere; Mr. AV. Stevens, Mr. W. B. Smith, Mr. J. Collier, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Dove, Wellington; Mr F. H. Selby, Miss Meyers, Sydney; Mrs. and Master Haldane. Mr. H. Douglas, Hastings; Mr. P. Welsh, Kati Kati; E. O. Amooir, Tirau; Mr. and Mrs. D. Balie. Westport; Mr. H. J. Mahoney, Miss F. Mahoney, Taneatua; Mr. J. W. Vercoe, Miss E. Miller, Mr. Messana, Mr. Miller, Mr. A. Sorby, Hamilton; Mr. G. C. Hyde, Mrs. Rowe, Mr. and Mrs. Greenslades, Nelson; Major and Mrs. F. Hurst, Whan - garei; Mrs. M. Mill, Mr. F. D. 'Mill Mr. D. Bernstein, Dunedin; Mr. R. G. Fear, Mr. F. J. Brown, Pukekohe; Mrs. Austen, Wanganui; Mrs. Palmer, Tauranga; Mr. G. Dysnar, Mr. D. G. Clare, Gisborne; Mr. D. Bridle, Rotorua; Mr. S. Mitchon, Mr. A. D. Bell, Mr. C. Munro, Mr. W. Duder, Clevedon; Mr. G. Brown, San Francisco; Mr J. Jacombs, Palmerston North; Mr. S'. J. Bennett, Waerenga; Mr. G. D. Sole, Mr. W. G. Douglas, New Plymouth; Mr. A. W. Snodgrass, Te Puna; Mr. R. F. Dewis, Okoroire; Mr. C. A. Knowles, Maharau; Mr. and Mrs. D. Rodgers, Christchurch.

The death has occurred in action of Lieut. Edwin Ballard Dalby, R.N.R., who was for some time in the service of the New Zealand Shipping Company, and also in the cable steamer Iris. He was the son of Mr. J. S. Dalby, of Hawke’s Bay. With regard to uniforms and clothing issued to soldiers employed on home service, the following regulation has been made: —“Cloth ng issued to a home-service soldier will be taken care of and kept in repair by h m. When the Quartermaster-General is satisfied that the loss or damage is due to circumstances beyond a sol dier’s control and not to theft, or to wear-and-tear consequent on inclement weather attendance at manoeuvres, camps, barracks, and forts, or other contingencies that come within the duty of a soldier, he may order repair or replacement at the public expense.” * * ♦ • Mr. J. C. N. Grigg, of Longbeach Canterbury, is returning to New Zealand, and expects to reach home in the first week of July. For some months past Mr. Grigg has been chairman of the Clubs Committee of the New Zealand War Contingent Association, which during that time has established three or four new clubs, making eight altogether. » • * • An admirer of the women ’bus conductors writes to the “Daily Mirror”: “She is an unqualified success. The companies seem to have the knack of finding the right sort of woman. . . . By her competency and cour tesy she has endeared herself to the travelling public, and it is not exclusively on the male passengers that she lavishes her attention. The aged and the poor are the objects of her solicitude rather than the smartlyapparelled and the young; but to all she is pleasant, helpful, and gentle. That the London ’bus companies appreciate the woman conductor is shown by the fact that they are constantly calf ng for more girls to join the ranks and learn the duties. . . One of the great companies at present employs about 1200 women and would engage more if they were available. Most of the women are of opinion that the advantages of the work outweigh the disadvantages. Without exception, they admit that the work is fatiguing, but not unbearably so.” « * * • Mr. Stuart Henrys, son of Mr. J. E. Henrys, who left with the Main Body, attached to No. 2 Battery, N.Z.F.A., has received a commiss : on. He has been on active service for two years and nine months, and after the battle of the Somme was selected to go to the officers' training college at Exeter. Mr. F. E. Hunt, stationmaster at Carterton, who has been transferred further south, was presented with a bank draft for 50 guineas and an enlarged framed photograph of the Carterton railway station by the residents and settlers of the Carterton district as a token of esteem. A picturesque Maori war veteran in the person of Mr. G'eorge David Thomas, of Wanganu 1 , is dead. The deceased soldier served through the Indian Mutiny, and arrived in New Zealand with his regiment in the early sixties. He enlisted with the 2nd Wa’kato Regiment in 1866, and afterwards joined the Armed Constabulary Field Force. Mr. Thomas, whose wife survives him, had two sons at the front. The other son was killed at Gallipoli. “Extraordinary defensive preparations have been made to guard the Panama Canal against aggression by land or sea,” said a New Zealander who has been resident in America, in conversation with a Wellington “Post” reporter. “Troops are every where along the banks of the Canal, and aeroplanes circle over every vessel that passes through.” ■ r * s - At Dunedin recently Sir James Allen (Minister of Defence) presented Mrs. A. W. Porteous with the Military Cross won by her husband. Company - Sergeant - Major Porteous went away with the Main Body in the North Otago Company of the Otago Infantry Battalion, and was killed at Gallipoli in May of 1915. :|s :S * * The funeral of the late Allen Haig, of Cobden,’ one of the pioneers of the West Coast and an Ind an Mutiny and Maori War veteran, took place in the south last week. The funeral was a military one, there being a good muster of Territorials and Senior Cadets. A number of country residents were among the large number of civilians who attended to pay their last tributes to the gallant old soldier.

Trooper Clutha Mackenzie, in the course of a chat at the Soldiers’ Club, Wellington, had a special word to say to the sold’ers who had yet to leave for the front. “One of the great bugbears present in the minds of soldiers leaving for the front,” he said “is the thought that they may lose their sight. It is not the terrible thing that you may think, not by any means. There is so much that : s done for one now that one need never feel cut off from life, even if they are blinded. Sighted people do not realise how quickly one can readjust onself to different conditions.” * * * * The cost of living in the United States, according to Mr. George Gray, the well-known billiardist. has bounded up enormously. Clothing has gone up a hundred per cent, and food is very expensive. American boots can be obtained cheaper out here than in the States, strange to say. At the present time a good pair of boots cannot be purchased in the States under £2. There is, however, plenty of work obtainable, war work for the Allies employing thousands of hands. The increase in shipbuilding also is remarkable. * 4* * * Messrs. J. Davidson and Co., Ltd., carrying contractors, Customs and shipping agents, of Timaru, fully deserve the popularity they enjoy among the travelling public and business people throughout the Dominion. The firm is a progress ve one, and is under the capable management of Mr. H. G. Keith, to whom no small measure of praise is due for the wide expansion of the business during the past few years. Visitors to Timaru can safely leave their orders with Messrs. Davidson and Co. and rest assured that their wants will be carefully and correctly carried out. T. * * * Mr. Ray L. Price, of Auckland, who is work ng under the British Red Cross, spent 10 months in Salonika as storekeeper. Returning to London last September he was then sent to Roumania as secretary of a special medical mission. He journeyed via Norway, Sweden and Russia, and was two months in Russia. He is now in London. Two Bluff fishermen had an exciting experience one day last week while fishing off Dog Island. They had been troubled for some time by a shark clearing their baits and driving fish away, and when the monster again approached they baited a hook with a 401 b groper and successfully hooked the shark. An exciting fight followed, the shark towing the launch for over an hour before tiring and rising to the surface, when the fishermen killed it. The shark took two hours to tow to Bluff, and when landed tipped the scale at 1 ton 2 cwt., measuring 14ft. lin. from tip to tip and 9ft. 6in. around the girth. « * * * Major Rawdon Beere, of Wellington, writing from somewhere in France, says:—“The Maoris are great boys over here, and are easily the most cheerful people in Europe. Wherever there is a Maori there is laughter. Soldiering is worse than the law in its never-ending changes. There is always cropping up some ‘leading case’ to alter one’s former ideas of how this or that should be done, and a soldier must ever be on the alert to avoid some act which would have been all right yesterday, but is all wrong to-day. The line is wonderfully interesting, and playing with ‘Fritz’ is better than tennis or hockey.” *** * . It is reported that the thar and chamois which were liberated on Mt. Cook are doing well.

Mr. D. A. Butler, acting sub-man-ager at Rarotonga for the Union Steamship Company, is at present on a visit to Wellington. • * « • Lieutenant Allen O. Knight, Somerset Light Infantry, a son of Dr. A. O. Knight, of Auckland, has relinqu'shed his commission in order to continue his medical studies. * * * * The following guests have been at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, during the past week: —Mr. C. E. Mathews, Mr. M. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Doughty, Mr. W. E Jackson, Mr. C. R. C. Robieson, Mr. C. N. Baeyertz, Mr. C. B. Norwood, Justice and Mrs. Stringer, Mr. A. C. Gillies, Mr. F. W. V. Greville, Mr. E. V. Hall, Mr. G Duncan, Miss M. Kane Mr. V. M. Meredith, Mr. W. R. Moore, Mr. C. W. Jones, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. D. Christie, Shanghai-; Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Studholme. Waiouru; Mr. D S. Evans, Mr. A. R. Milliard, Mr. W. H Locke, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Lee, Mrs. Griffiths, Mr. T. F. Massie, Mr. J. A. Latimer, Mr. and Mrs. J. Chambers, Miss Chambers, nurse and secretary, Mr and Mrs. Saxton, Misses Halcombe. Mr. H. Ludowici, Mr. Lavenstein, Mr. H. E. Robinson, Sydney; Mr. A. K. Oakrhind, Mr. G. P. Melville, Mr. C. A. Goble, Melbourne; Mr. and Mrs. Davidson, Adelaide; Hon. H. M. Scott, Suva; Mr. and Mrs Farquhar, Fiji; Mr. Mcßae Peacock, Tuakau; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Johnson, Te Kuiti; Mr. and Mrs. W. Murray, Colonel C. J. Cooper, Mr. E. W Relph, Christchurch; Hon. Joseph Duffell, Perth; Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Bankart, Auckland; Mr. A. R Watson and son, Gisborne; Mr. Newton King, New Plymouth; Captain and Mrs. Barnett. H.S. Maheno; Captain and Mrs. Carter, Eltham; Mrs. Marshall and daughter, Mr. F. L. Peck, Wanganui; Mr. and Mrs. R. Heron, Mr. E. D. Giles, Timaru; Mr. and Miss D. Macßae, Mackenzie; Mr. and Mrs H. J. Rhodes, Glasgow; Mr. and Mrs. F. Moyridge, Blenheim; Dr. and Mrs. P. H. Mules. Woodville; Mr. and Mrs. King Reed, Te Araroa; Captain and Mrs. W. E. Faulkner, Miss A. McHarrie, Devon, England: Mr. E. J. Davis, Portland; Mr. C. N Saxton, Titohi: Mrs. W. A. and Miss Moore, Second-Lieutenant A. B. Moore, N.Z.M.R.. Dunedin. * * * ■■ Among tile arrivals at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru, last week were: — Mr. Justice Sim, Mr. J. A. Sim, Mr. J. Shaw, Mr. W. H Middleton, Mr. J. Cleghorn, Mr. D. R. Robinson, Mr. A. A. Fairbairn, Mr. J. R. Barclay Mr. J. A. Paterson, Mr. E. C. Cayzer, Mr. Geo. Johnson, Mr. H W. Macdonald, Dunedin; Hon. G. W. Russell, Dr. Valentine, Mr. A. C. Perrin, Captain K. Gilmer, Mr D A. Fay, Mr. W. A. Brodie, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. G. Brodie, Mr R. Pasney, Mr. J. Durham, L’eutenant-Colonel T. Hope Lewis, Mr. A. Hutchinson, Wellington; Mr. A. H. Sewell, London; Mr. H S. Hobbs, Mr. S. Lucas, Mr. E. Ellyett.. Mr. R Nettleton, Mr. A. C. Horn . man, Mr. E. Cross, Mr. F. H. Suckling, Mr. J. O’Neill, Mr. E. Armitage, Lieutenant-Colonel Boyd, Mr. C. Boyes, Miss L. Moloney, Mr. W. E. Hurley, Mr. J. A. Roberts. Mr. D Cox, Mr D. Redpath, Mr. J. F. Grierson, Mr. F. Hanson, Mr. S. T. Hincksman, Mr. H P. Whinam, Mr. J. Nixon, Mr. E P. .Ferman. Mr. E. E. Jerman, Mr. W. Ford. Mr !•'. Russell, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Clark, Mt. V. M. Beebe, Christchurch; Mr. R Macdonald, Waikuku; Mr. H. L. Fem Mr. J. Little, Cave; Mrs. W. F. Smndeier. Cemn.ru; Mr. J. Cuppies, Mr. D. Mcßeath, Mr. W. Stone Invercargill.

The census of the United States ’ shows that there are 10,000,000 men of military age (21 to 30). # * Miss Ruth Law, the American aviator who flew around the Liberty Statue on the occasion of its illum'nation, and who recently broke transcontinental records in her flight from Chicago to New York, has sailed for France, where she hopes to enlist for three months in the French Aero Corps, to “bomb” the Germans, as she ■explained it. Plans for what is expected to be, the tallest building in the world—s 7 stories —to cost 15,000,000d01. and capaleb of accommodating 10,000 people, Lave just been prepared by an architect for the Exhedra Corporation of Detroit. Options have been obtained on a 5,000,000d01. site, and tentative tenders have been called for. The building, as planned, will be a city in itself, with a post office, police star tion, arena seating 16,000 people, and a quarter-mile track, end an auditorium with 30,000 capacity. The plans call for a twenty-seven storey hotel and 57 stories of offices, running up into a tower 808 ft. high, as compared with 789 ft. of the Woolworth Building, New York. Two aeroplane landings, 50ft. wide and 620 ft. long, will be located on the roof. According to the plans, there will be 4312 rooms. The foundations of the building, sayst the architect, will be carried to bed Tock. In the basement will be located 504 display rooms. There will be seven banquet halls, two small ■convention halls, one seive-self, one dining-room, two ballrooms, and a hospital on the second floor of the biulding. V « * An instance of how harshly the new passport regulations press on people who wish to visit Australia was brought home to certain Dunedin residents recently, states the Dunedin •“Star.” The husband has recently retired from business, and he and his wife had made arrangements to go to Sydney for twelve ■months, with the ultimate object of settling there If the climate proved suitable. The man, who is well over 60 years of .age, was disagreeably surprised when, on applying for a passport, he was informed that the only conditions -upon which it was issued would be that he entered into a bond to the extent of £lOO that he would return to the Dominion within a period of two months. In the event of his failure to do so the bond would be •estreated. St * * * The use of New Zealand beech timber fpr butter boxes is advocated by £l Southland sawmiller. Beech, he told an Invercargill reporter, had been , tested in Melbourne by an expert butter packer, and found absolutely free •from taint, while it was also light and easily nailed. The timber would now be used by Australia for butter , boxes if shipping space could be ob- I tained, and he suggested that it should j be tested officially. There was suifi- ■ cient beech in Southland to supply the whole of the Dominion for many years, the timber available amounting to hundreds of millions of feet. It , bad lately come into extensive use ; for cheese and other cases, and there was no reason, in his opinion, way it should not make excellent butter boxes. ■