THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1415, 7 June 1917, Page 37

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE. Sir William Hall-Jones, M.L.C., for many years High Commissioner for the Dora nion, is at present on a visit to Auckland.. .f. * * Mr. Arthur Cleave, proprietor of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” and “N.Z. Motor Journal,” is at present on a business visit to Sydney. Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Cowles, of Carterton, who took part in the occupat.on of Samoa, and who subsequently saw service on Gallipoli and in France, has been appointed to command the Twenty-sixth Reinforcements. In his speech at the Returned Soldiers Conference at Dunedin, Sir James Allen said he did not regard as practicable the proposal that men of the Main Body who are still at the front should be brought back to New Zealand on hoi day leave. « « » • Downing Street owes its name to Sir George Downing, an unscrupulous politician, who was Secretary to the Treasury in the days of the Merry Monarch. Mr. Harold Latham, of Napier, has received advice that his nephew, Lieutenant Oswell Latham, of the Royal Fusiliers, who was awarded the Military Cross for gallant conduct in the Somme push, received a fractured skull in recent fighting. Lieutenant Latham is expected to recover from the wound. * * * * Lieutenant J. C. Wright,, the Australian, who was killed in action in France on May 3, was a sculptor, and the w nner of the Wynn prize in 1915. Several examples of his work are in the National Art Gallery and elsewhere in Sydney. At the time of his enlistment he was the principal of the Adelaide College of Arts and Crafts. ♦ * * * The address “Zeaclub” has been registered as a telegraphic code address for the “New Zealand Soldiers’ Club. Russell Square, London, W.C.” ■P Ms * * Mr. W. J. Phillipps, formerly of the biological department, Otago University Museum, has been appointed to the position of ass'stant, Dominion Museum (Department of Internal Affairs), Wellington. • • • * "Reports from various parts of the district go to prove once more that eels, shags, and seagulls destroy large numbers of fish, and again all sportsmen are urged to exterm’nate these pests whenever and wherever possible.” —From the annual report of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. • * V • The Napier Borough Council is considering a scheme to improve its gardens and parks and generally beautify the town. One citizen, whose name has not been disclosed, has, it is stated, offered to pay the entire cost of the necessary work. * ♦ ♦ • In view of the coming reduction in the output of beer, hop-growers ask the Government to prohibit the importation of foreign heps for ten years after the war, or to impose a duty of not less than 9d per lb. Mr. Max H. Wall, of the Motor Boat Patrol, writer to his father, Mr. H. Wall, of Maranui. late of Carterton, to the effect that he has passed his engineer’s examination with flying colours.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Barbour, of Singapore, are on a tour of the Dominion. * * :I: The order prohibiting the use of paper for posters by newspapers and other period cals has been extended to include any kind of material. This means that the use of cotton or linen for contents bills is stopped. * * * * It is officially announced that the London propert es of the three former German banks, the Deutsche Bank, the Dresdner Bank and the DiscontoGesellschaft are to be sold by auct’on on June 19.

Captain C. McLean, who was master of the Maitai when she was wrecked and later resigned from the Union Steamship Company’s service, has gone to Sydney to take charge of a steamer. * * * * "The Beer Question” was discussed by the Eton Society recently, and, according to the “Eton College Chronicle,” the champion of what was described as the “Down Glasses” party was the Marquis of Worcester. He urged a complete cessation of beerdrinking during the war. By 12 votes to 9 the “Down Glasses” proposal was rejected.

Mr. Albert Glover, Member for Auckland Central, has returned to Auckland after a trip to Sydney. Mrs. Mary Ann Wise, who was 100 last November and who was married three times, has died at Watlington, Oxfordshire. * # * * News has been received from the front that Lieutenant C. S. Geddis, of Napier, and formerly of Auckland, has been promoted to the rank of captain on the field, and is now in command of a machine-gun company in France. He was wounded in the Somme battle on September 15.

Dr. H. D. Bedford, Professor of Economics at the Otago University, has been giving lectures in the south on his recent experiences of war work with the Y.M.C.A. at Home. * ♦ * • Mr. John Parkinson, of Kaituna, has received word that his son, Lieutenant Leonard Parkinson, has been awarded the Military Cross. * * * The death is announced of Mr. F. J. Sadler, a well-known resident of New Brighton, Canterbury, aged 79. The deceased was an author ty on matters horticultural. * * * An announcement has been made by the Union Steam Ship Company that an agreement has teen made between the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and the Union Company for a fusion of the'r interests. The arrangement provides that the P. and O. Company will issue to shareholders of the Union Company 10s. of deferred stock and will pay 30s. in cash for each ordinary share of the Union Company. Circulars explaining the proposal will be issued at once to shareholders of the Union Company. The fusion now proposed will give the P. and O. Company a controlling interest in fleets of 305 cargo and passenger steamers, aggregating 1,654,138 tons.

A Press Association message from London states that Sir Ernest Shackleton has returned to England. ♦ * • • The Governor is to be invited to attend the celebration on Bth August of the jubilee of the opening ot the Thames goldfields. * * * * Mr. S. Reid, secretary to the New Zealand Portland Cement Company, has been appointed manager in succession to Mr. F. A. Vickerman, who has gone into camp. * * * * The Hon. W. D. S. Macdonald, Minister of Agriculture, while in Australia, purchased a million bushels of wheat for the New Zealand Government. * :|: * * Captain and Mrs. Poole, who have been on a holiday visit to Auckland, have left on their return to the Solomon Islands, via Australia. * T * * Mr. J. J. Dillon, a prominent member of the Wellington Football Club, who represented Wellington city last season, goes into camp with the 30th Reinforcements, having enlisted on his 20th birthday. Mr. D lion was the recipient of several presentations from the staff of the Native Department, of which he was a member. * W V * The Returned Soldiers’ Conference at Duned n passed a resolution urging that the Government should take over all patriotic funds as nucleus of a fund to be supplemented by moneys raised by taxation for the benefit of returned soldiers and their dependents. * * * * At the recent luncheon tendered by the New Zealand Club, Wellington, Mr. C. J. Parr, M.P., remarked that Britain was “criminally unready for this war,” and it was France who had saved the situation. France, it was also, who had driven back two million Germans at the Marne, and that battle would be written down as the greatest battle in history. Big guns and shells were the dominating factors in the war. and, with the Allies’ present preponderance of munit : ons he would not be surprised to see the Germans driven absolutely out of France before the end of the present summer in Europe. * * * * Napier sportsmen do not speak very enthusiastically about the amount of game in the principal shooting grounds of the province tlrs year, remarks a Hawke’s Bay paner. Several parties wh'ch went to Wairoa earlier in the month found an average number of ducks about, and pheasants were scarce. A couple a day has been the average bag of pheasants in the Wairoa district this year, but quail were fairly plentiful, both Californian and Virginian. * * » ® A fitting finale to the fishing season of 1917, which ended last week, says the Rotorua paper, was the performance of Mr. James Stanley, who landed 17 fine fish in Lake Rotorua, among them one 161 b in weight, of the rainbow species. The landing of this fish will be most encouraging to anglers, proving that there are still big fish in the lake, and that the efforts of the authorities to improve the condition of the trout are meeting with success. MS S 3 * * Arrivals at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru, during' last week included:—Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Jackson. Mr. H. P. Whinam, Mr G. C. Royds, Mrs. G. Jameson. Miss Jameson. Mr. J. Nixon, Mr. E. P. Jerman, Mr. C. E. Jerman, Mr. AV. Ford, Mr. J. G. Longuet, Mr. J. Corbett. Mr. E. Cross, Mr. G. S. James, Mr F. Sherriffs, Mr. S. Phillips. Mr. S. Lucar, Mr. A. J. Daly, Mr. A. Queree, Mr. S. Mirams, Mr. J. F. Browning, Mr. S. Vincent. Mr A. McClatchie, Mr. E. Russell. Mr. S. T. H'ncksman. Christchurch; Mr. H. W. Macdonald. Mr. E. L. Macassey, Mr. J. Shaw. Mr. N. A. Nash, Mr. W. Balkin. Mr. E. E. Cayzer, Mr. J. A. Paterson, Mr. A. A. Fairbairn, Mr. G. R. Simkin, Dunedin; Mr. W. Stone, Mr. J. Gilkison, Invercargill; Mr. W. Baird, iur. H. Blackman, Mr. W. R. Williamson, Wellington; Mr. W. S. Keddell, Pahiatua; Mr. C. W. Low, Claudeboye, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Scanes, Master Scanes, Fairlie; Mr. E. R. Bowler, Gore; Sergeant C. E. Hitchings, Trentham; Mr. A. A. Langley, Mr. E. Smart, Oamaru; Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hamilton, Mrs. Gilliard, Miss K. Hamilton, Ashwick; Mr. and Mrs. H. Joyce, Mr. E. Coxhead, Timaru; Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins, Miss L. Tompkins, Sydney.

The amounts handed over to relief funds from charity performances held at the Stoll theatres throughout Great Britain since the beginning of the war now total £27,415, and Mr. Oswald Stoll has, in addition, given more than £ll,OOO out of his own pocket for charitable purposes.

It has been found that the Government regulation limiting luncheons in restaurants in England to two courses and dinners to three courses has increased the consumption of meat in restaurants instead of diminishing it. The cause of this is that everyone now takes meat as one of the courses, and many patrons take a “follow,” or second helping, in order to dine well and yet keep within the limit of courses. A “follow” does not count as a course. The “Daily Mail” has been conducting on its own account a campaign against the “follow,” and has succeeded in abolishing it at several restaurants where it was an oldestablished custom.

It has been decided that veterans in possession of British war medals may be awarded military funerals, provided that no expense to the public is incurred.

An ex-membei' of the Christchurch “Press” Co.’s literary staff, writing from Sling Camp, Salisbury Plain, under date of March 17th, says: — “We had had. a very cold winter here, fogs and snow and bitter easterly winds that blow for days. Your Christchurch easterly is mild compared with it. It comes straight off the ice from somewhere, and will freeze water inside the hut, not to speak of the ice it makes around the wash-house. We are all well housed, however, and with a stove in the hut and plenty of blankets (I have eight) one keeps tolerably warm even on the chilliest night. They look after you very well here.”

Dr. Buchanan, of the Old Bank House, Coleford, in the Forest of Dean. England, has received a communication from the War Office announcing that his son. Captain Angus Buchanan, V.C.. M.C., who was severely wounded in Mesopotamia some t’me ago. is bPnd in both eyes. The gallant young officer, whose splendid military career has thus been cut short, is only 22 years of age. He was head boy of Monmouth Grammar School, and when war broke out was a scholar at Jesus College, Oxford. He obtained a commission in the South Wales Borderers. It was in April, 1916, that he gained the V.C. for bringing in to cover a wounded officer and a wounded soldier, one after the other, under heavy machine-gun fire. He had previously been awarded the

Military Cross for gallant conduct at Helles, Gallipoli. This is the third time Captain Buchanan has been wounded.

Hitherto, says the ’’Paris Daily Mail,” all inhabitants of the British Isles, including even the Irish, have generally been described in French as “Anglais.” General Verraux, who writes in the “CEuvre,” .is trying to rectify this. He tells his readers that Miraumont was taken not by “les Anglais,” but by “les Britannlques.” The “Journal des Debats” heartily endorses the use of the new word, and suggests that Frenchmen m future should say “Britannie” instead of “Angleterre” when referring to Britain in general.

Louis Raemakers, the Dutch cartoonist, whose drawings have been one of the sensations of the war, said at a luncheon given in his honour recently in London, that he had seen the war coming for years and years, as his cartoons of ten years ago would show. It was impossible for him to keep silent; if he could not express himself he must explode. When he started h’s campaign, Mr. Raemakers said, there was great

astonishment at his daring. It was said that he would bring Holland into the war. But nothing could stop him, not even five prosecutions, each one of which resulted in his acquittal, nor did the pleadings of his wife for herself and the’r children. The dream was then a nightmare, Mr. Raemakers cont nued, but when the Dutch people saw that he was still alive and at liberty their courage came back, and they said: “He is right; why should we keep silent?”

The Y.M.C.A. in Australia has received word that a healthful farm in Dorset, England, has been purchased by the association and fitted up as a sanatorium, to be placed at the service of men who have been invalided out of the army suffering from tubercular trouble and who cannot afford the ordinary sanatorium treatment. -■ Some of the cinema shows of the Y.M.C.A. in the fighting area have become so popular and crowded that a nominal charge is made for admittance, and the whole of these profits are devoted to the cost of the consumptive sanatorium work.

“Germany has fixed greedy eyes upon South America and after the war will try to make good the loss of her colonies by extending her trade in every d’rection,” said Mr. Travis Clegg, speaking at a recent meeting of the Lancashire County Council. Ignorance of languages had been our weakest point in the past. By teaching Spanish in the secondary schools the Lancashire Education Committee, he said, had done well. It was the language for trade with South America.

Two thousand women at Glasgow on March 15, protesting against the withholding of potato supplies, marched to the municipal buildings. The Corporation by a majority refused to receive a deputation. Sir Thomas Dunlop, the Lord Provost, delivered a strong appeal to the city to trust the Government on the conduct of the war and food control. He was loudly cheered. Socialist members interrupted, and, after a noisy scene, four members were suspended.

The Soldiers’ Club at Masterton is to cost about £4OOO. The erection of the building will be commenced shortly. Mr. A. P. Whatman has guaranteed the upkeep of the institution for a period of ten years.

Mr. Duncan Allen, of Lawson, New South Wales, has been welcomed back from the front by his fellow citizens. Mr. Allen is 65 years of age, and is a former well-known resident of Lithgow. He had 12 years’ service with the Imperial Forces, and says he has always regarded himself as a soldier from early youth, and it was that sn’Ht that impelled him to offer himself for active service some two years ago. After a couple of futile attempts to enlist he hit upon the idea of dyeing his hair and moustache, and otherwise fixing himself up. This he did, and putting his age back to 45, he made his final and successful application. After a short period of training he was sent to Egypt, thence to France, where he s,aw considerable trench fighting, during which he was twice wounded. While in hospital the veteran’s real age leaked out, and while the colonel of the regiment congratulated him upon his loyalty and courage, he thought Private Allen should go home, which he did. The old soldier has a grandson in the fighting line, and his greatest regret was that he had to leave him behind. Private Allen is Scottish, and of sturdy physique. c « e • Arrivals at the Central Hotel, Auckland, last week included the following:—Mr. and Mrs. Boston Couper, Cambridge; Mr. H. J. Hills, Waimarino; Mr. and Mrs. Warner Knight. Palmerston North; Mr. J. Strang. Taumarunui; Mr. J. Wilson, Hamilton; Mr. A. E. Putt, Mr. H. L. Lysaght, Tauranga: Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Wells, Cambridge; Miss G. G. Stone, Miss

Wnter, Mr. Tapper, Rotorua; Mrs. H. Fortune, Mr. W. Woodruff, Whakatane; Mr. N. McGuren, Whangarei; Mr. S. Allan, Orere; Mr. W. M. Bell, Trentham; Mr. J. E. Wells, Mrs. Boreham. Hamilton; Mr. A. Mason, Wanganui; Dr. and Mrs. Walsh, Thames; Mr. and Mrs. D. Rodgers, Mr., Mrs. and Miss E. E. Stark, Mr. L. W. Balkind, Mr. Goodhard, Mr. J. C. Lord, Mrs. C. Louisson, Christchurch; Mrs. Ehrenfried, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Montgomery, Te Kuiti; Mr. F. Fooks, Taumarunui; Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Bell, Kaitaia; Mr. H. Condry, Mr. and Mrs. Bolwell, Mr. R. Jones, Mr. W. Burt, Dunedin; Mr. H. Norman, Hastings; Mr. R. Clark, Nelson; Mr. R. Johnston, Sydney; Mr. J. Payne, Mr. J. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Silver, Wellington; Mr. R. W’lson, Mr. Mander, New Plymouth; Mr. H. Smith, Napier; Mr. H. Sands, Mr. R. Simons, Otago; Mr. King, Waikato.

Sir James Allen says that the number of Hansards printed next session will have to be reduced owing to the shortage of paper.

A committee set up by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society for the subject of pheasant-rearing recommends that the rearing of the birds be carried on at Masterton, on a moderate scale, also that twelve hen pheasants and two cock birds be procured, that sufficient pens be erected, and that all material suitable at the game farm be utilised.

The King has been pleased to ap prove of a miniature replica of the Victoria Cross being worn on the riband in undress and service dress uniform by all recipients of this distinction. The award of a bar to the original decoration will be marked by the addition of a second miniature cross on the riband, an additional cross being added for each bar awarded.

A “send-off” dinner was tendered to Corporal R. K. Lyon and Mr. D. S. Ferguson by the Wellington Patriotic Society. During the evening, which was rendered enjoyable by musical selections, a presentation was made to Mr. Lyon by Lieut-Com-mander Keily, R.N.R., on behalf of the Patriotic Society. Glowing testimony was made by him and other speakers to the whole-hearted work Mr. Lyon had rendered to patriotic efforts. Lieut-Commander Keily also made a presentation to Mr. Ferguson. * * * *

The report of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society on trout breeding reveals some interesting figures. Owing to bad weather and the failure of delivery of 100,000 brown trout ova, only 360,000 brown and 60,000 rainbow trout were available for hatching operations. These passed off smoothly, and 322,750 brown trout fry and 57,000 rainbow trout fry were distributed. The society has ordered from Rotorua 150,000 rainbow trout ova, and 850,000 brown trout ova, and from Hakataramea, and some other purchases may be made. The hatchery at Masterton can deal with about 1,000,000 ova.

The question of whether Japanese doctors will be allowed to practice in New Zealand has been raised by the Japanese Consul-General in Sydney and it is under the consideration of the Government. In a communication to the Minister for Public Health (the Hon. G. W. Russell) the Consul-General asks the terms and conditions under which graduates in medical science of the University of Japan will be allowed to practise in New Zealand. The Medical Practitioners Act, 1914, contains the following provision (section 8, subsection d): “Every person shall be entitled to be registered under the Act who satisfies the board that he is the holder of a diploma (hereinafter referred to as a foreign diploma) approved by the board and granted by any university or institution other than the University of of New Zealand or a university or institution situated in the United Kingdom, after a course of not less than five years’ study of the subject pertaining to a medical and surgical degree or license.”