THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1418, 28 June 1917, Page 34

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE. The Hon. W. F. Massey, Prime Minister, and Sir Joseph Ward arrived in Auckland on Monday after their trip Home, and were given a civic reception at the Town Hall.

Mr. H. B. Farnall, sub-librarian at the Auckland Municipal Library, who is shortly leaving for the front, was presented with farewell gifts by his colleagues.

Mr. J. R. Barr, formerly well known as chief officer of the Mararoa, has arrived back in Wellington, having been placed on the list of invalided. Mr. Barr has been in the Royal Navy for the past two and ahalf years.

Mr. J. A. McLeod, formerly of the New Zealand inspecting staff of the Bank of Australasia at Dunedin, has returned to the Dominion, after having obtained his discharge in England.

Lieutenant -Mariner Holm, of Wellington, formerly second mate of the barque Antiope, according to latest advices, has received his full lieutenancy in the Royal Navy. He is only 24 years of age.

Mr. Emerson Page, manager in Sydney for Messrs. Derbyshire and Co., is at present on a holiday visit to Wellington, and is the guest of his sister, Mrs. E. Middleton, Washington Avenue.

Captain Horace White - Parsons, harbourmaster at Napier, has gone to Christchurch to spend his vacation there.

Mr. E. D. Hoben, well known in journalistic circles in New Zealand, has received an appointment on the editorial staff of the Melbourne “Herald.”

The Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald (Minister in Charge of Tourist and Health Resorts) stated in Wellington last week that in consequence of reports received from the guide as to renewed thermal activities at Waimangu he had arranged for Mr. Hill (the Government officer at Rotorua) to visit Waimangu and report. As a result he had received a telegram from Mr. Hill to the effect that he had visited the locality and had witnessed several medium “shots” in the corner of Frying Pan Flat nearest to Waimangu House, but any attempt to forecast a probable fresh outbreak was mere speculation, as the present activity might mean anything or nothing.

The death has occurred of Mr. James Gray, an old Wanganui identity, at the advance age of 85 years. The late Mr. Gray was connected for 40 years with river navigation, and was associated with Hatr’ck and Co.’s river fleet for a number of years.

Soldiers on the point of leaving for the front are usually embarrassed by the liberality with which friends and relatives shower upon them presents which it is assumed will be of use for them in their military life. It is therefore desirable to make known the fact that any articles beyond the officially issued k’t have to be discarded on arrival in England. As a matter of fact, when a soldier comes to the actual campaigning part of his career he has with him only as much as he can carry on his back.

Mr. A. L. Beattie has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the Napier Licens ng Bench, caused by the absence of Mr. C. D. Kennedy from New Zealand.

A cable message has been received in Nelson stating that Flight-Com-mander Hugh Hamilton is a prisoner in Germany, and is well.

Dr. William Douglas Reid, M. 8., R.A.M.C., formerly of Brunnerton, who has been attached to the Manchester Regiment, has been awarded the Military Cross for bravery in attending wounded under heavy fire.

“There’s one good thing I can say for the cost of living.” “What’s that?” “It’s made it so that there’s no particular disgrace in being broke.”

Peter Bowling, formerly of New Zealand, is now energetically assisting the recruiting campaign in New South Wales. He has sons on active service in France.

For the first six weeks of the oyster season, no fewer than 3647 bags were sold by the Department in Auckland and the adjoining district, equalling the sum of £2342 15s.

Thomas Wilson, the father of nine children, enlisted in Melbourne on May 28, and was enrolled as a private in the A.I.F. The eldest son of the new recruit is a soldier on active service. W.lson is 43 years of age.

Bonus or lottery bonds issued for the purpose of raising war funds are very popular in France. Just before the last mail left a loan of £24,000,000 was launched under this principle at 5£ per 'cent. It was announced that there would be six drawings annually and 400 holders would participate in bonuses amounting to £lOO,OOO, the biggest prize be ng £20,000 and the smallest £2O. The speculative French people were so keen on this “little gamble” that it was subscribed five times over.

There are in Stornaway 75,000 barrels of herrings pickled in brine. These fish are not usually eaten in Britain, says Captain Bathurst, but in the present circumstances steps are being taken to retain them for home consumption.

At the instance of Mr. G. P. Donnelly, the member for Hawke’s Bay, Sir John Findlay, on his recent visit to the district, visited settlement areas between Napier and Hastings, which had been most seriously damaged by the floods. Sir John, in conversation with a “Times” reporter,” said that the plight of some of the small settlers is pitiable. These men had taken up sections under the Land for Settlement Act, and had been striving to get on their feet for some five years, and now' the flood has levelled and destroyed their fences, covered their pastures with silt, and done damage to the ; r buildings. No feed is available, but the generosity of the neighbours has thrown open their available pastures to the unfortunate settlers, who are small dairy farmers.

The settlement with Germany for the sinking of merchant ships will have to be on the basis of value for value, and not ton for ton. Ten thousand tons in a tramp steamer cannot be set against 10,000 tons in a liner like the Lusitania. —Mr. W. F. Massey.

Dr. S. Beck and Dr. Christian Hessle, two representatives of tfhe University of Upsala, in Sweden, have arrived in Apia, Samoa, with the object of investigating marine animal life in the Pacific. They propose to visit the Ellice, Gilbert and Phoenix Islands, also the Great Barrier Reef.

As the outcome of an appeal by Mr. G. B. Smith-Rewse (British Consul in Tonga), a sum of nearly £3OOO has been collected from the Tongans as a donation towards the Lord Kitchener Memorial Fund. This appeal is still before the community, and it is

certain that well over £3OOO will be handed in.

The statement made by the Hon. A. L. Herdman, Minister in Charge of the Discharged Soldiers’ Information Department, regarding the measures to be taken by the Government to deal with the problem of demobilisation at the conclusion of hostilities, has been reprinted by the Department for issue in pamphlet form.

Mr. A. W. Bennett, Dominion general manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, stated recently to a Christchurch “Sun” representative that this month would be a very poor one as far as freight-carrying w T as concerned. He understood that future shipments were very indefinite. To clear away the congestion of frozen meat, wool, hemp, tow, dairy produce, etc., would involve the use of 40 steamers of average capacity, so that it was possible to draw one’s own conclusion as to the extent of the congestion.

A Palmerston North youth, who is a pupil of the High School there, set a fine example of how to make the best use of his holidays (says an exchange). During the last summer vacation he spent nearly the whole of the time in the harvest fields of farms near Palmerston, and by the time the school resumed his earnings had reached quite a substantial sum. The present term holidays he is spending in the potato fields, where, with a school chum, he is potato-picking at Is. 3d. per bag, and the wages to be made at this work in fairly good crops may be judged when the lad in question earned 13s. on one day and 16s. the day before.

The electrical department of the Wellington City Council has imported a life-saving device called a lung motor machine for pumping oxygen into the lungs of anyone suffering from suspended animation through electric shock. Experts state that death is not always instantaneous as the result of shock, and that the early

use of this machine may save the life of anyone who comes into contact with a live wire.

A longer period of training without full equipment and very gradually increased route marches were the instructions issued at Home recently, to prevent over-strain among men of sedentary occupation joining the Army when over 38, states Mr. Macpherson in parliamentary papers.

“Anybody can plough,” was the rather unusual admission of a young farmer before the Military Service Board at Palmerston North. The Board looked incredulous, not, as it explained collectively, that it did not believe the statement, but it had been told so often by farmers seeking exemption that ploughing was something of a fine art, requiring long experience, and impossible of accomplishment by a novice. “I quite agree with you,” said Mr. Perry, himself an expert in agricultural farming, “but you are the first to admit it before this Board.” The young man who had made the admission qualified it by saying that anybody could plough, but, the trouble was that they would not learn.

Advice received in Wellington shows that body shields are in use by some of the New Zealanders in active warfare. One of the shields was ordered by Mr. J. O. Shorland in order to obtain information as to its efficiency, and is now on view at the Buckle Street Barracks. The “Wellington Post” states that a strange feature is that the shield is non-metallic, and it is claimed that it is more effective by reason of this fact. It affords ample freedom of movement, and is proof against bayonet thrusts. It is claimed for it that it will resist bursting shrapnel at a velocity of 750 feet per second and ordinary service rifle fire at six paces. These claims are backed up by the report of the British Ministry of Munitions, which has subjected the shield to military tests.

The Government cable repair steamer Tutanekai, which has re turned to Wellington, after having laid a new section of sub marine cable in Cook Strait, had to wait some time on account of the weather during her absence, but she managed eventually to lay eight miles of new cable and join it up successfully with the buoyed end of the main cable. The Tutanekai is now laying up until her services are required again for cable work.

An unique method of raising money for the Red Triangle Day effort on behalf of the Y.M.C.A., for the Red Cross Convalescent Home at Moree (New South Wales) is being tried at that centre, in the form of sheep route marches. The idea was suggested by Mr. George Smith, grazier, of Budgeree, Garah. It is anticipated that well over 1000 sheep will be procured, which, valued at a low estimate of 255. per head, will realise a useful sum. Four routes have been mapped out, extending as far distant out as 60 miles. They commence respectively at Bunarba, Boomi Garah, Dolgelly, Moppin, and the Pallamallawa district, and converge on Moree. The method followed is to notify each grazier on the route of the name of the grazier who will deliver the flock to him, also the name of the grazier to whom, after adding his donation, he is requested to deliver the flock, which, by this means, will eventually reach Moree.

“Things in this country at the present time” (says Mr. G. O. Luthy, of Oakhurst Farm, Illinois, U.S.A., in a letter to Mr. T. G. Sargeant, Wellington) “are rather unsettled, due to the fact that we are entering this world war, and we have got to go through a period of adjustment. Dairy products here are br nging high prices. For example, last month on my farm, where I separate cream, I received 45 to 47 cents a pound for cream based on butter-fat contents. The price is now (May 10) down to 40 cents. Hogs have been bringing 16 cents live weight. Potatoes have been about four dollars a bushel. Wheat is three dollars a bushel, and corn has reached the unheard of price of 1 dollar 50 cents a bushel. The wheat crop this summer is not going to be as large as last year. The acreage planted to other grains will be larger than ever before.”

In describing at the Wellington Garrison Hall how the New Zealand soldiers paint their faces black and arm themselves with a “waddy” made with an entrenching tool and a big nut, just prior to engaging in a raid, Major Andrews said that one night a German officer was brought a prisoner into his dug-out in charge of two stalwart New Zealanders, and he noticed that the man looked behind him once or twice, as if he feared something was after him; and as soon as the officer saw him he said to him in French: “You are an officer; I claim your protection.” “My protection! — against what?” asked Major Andrews. “Against these New Zealand savages,” was the reply. “But I am a New Zealander,” said the Major. “You, a New Zealander! Impossible!” exclaimed the officer, “impossible!” “He had seen them, you know,” remarked Major Andrews, amid laughter.

In recognition of the Navy’s work in the war the people of Canada have subscribed £50,000 for naval charities, orphanages and hospitals. Another sum of £50,000 has been collected for mercantile marine institutions.

Arrangements have been made for the pecuniary grants payable under Royal Warrant to holders of the Victoria Cross, Military Cross or the Distinguished Conduct Medal to be paid to those members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who received these decorations. Recovery will be made from the Imperial Government through the Treasury. To those soldiers who have received the Victoria Cross a special pension of £lO per annum is payable from the date of the act of bravery for which the decoration was gained. An additional pension of £5 is granted for each bar added in consequence of further acts of bravery, and in the event of an annuitant, being unable to earn a livelihood as the result of old age or infirmity occasioned by causes beyond his control the annuity may be increased at the discretion of the Army Council. A soldier awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal or the Military Cross is paid, a gratuity of £2O on promotion to a commission, transfer to the Army Reserve or on discharge without pension. If discharged with a pension he is eligible for an addit’onal 6d. a day. Gratuities will be paid by the Defence Department (War Accounts) on application and pensions by the Treasury.

A very high-class non-mercurial plate powder has been placed on the market by the Talmard Manufacturing Co., of Auckland. It is prepared with very great care, and is especially recommended for the cleaning of silver and electro-plated goods. Before the powder is packed into the tin boxes it is sold in, it has to pass through a very fine gauze screen, so fine that there are over half a million holes to the square foot in it, so that it is impossible for the plate powder to scratch the article if the directions are followed. Talmard “N.M.” plate powder will make silver very bright, and this lustre will last longer than if paste or liquid is used. The same firm brought out a first-class slug and snail killer and plant fertiliser called “2 in 1” last season, which has had a large sale, and bids fair to be much larger this coming season, as it is now so widely known.

Possibly the youngest pensioner from the British Army is a boy at present engaged at a Portsmouth brewery works. Although not yet 16 years of age, he has served a year as a band boy in the Dorset Regiment, and was discharged with a ruptured lung and a pension of ss. a week.

Among the arrivals at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru, last week were:—Mr. and Mrs. W. Irving Carney, Miss Pat. Carney, Mr. E. Fear, Mr. M. J. Russell, Mr. S. Lucas, Mr. E. C. Armitage, Mr. Clarke, Mr. F. Sladen, Mr. S. F. Hincksman, Frank H. Irving, Mr. A. L. Tucker, Mr. C. R. Beadel, Mr. A. W. Cramp, Mr. D. Ronayne, Mr. H. Ellis, Mr. F. H. E. Chester, Major and Mrs. Leeming, Mr. C. F. Edgar, Mr. B. B. Grange, Mr. E. A. Christie, Mr. L. W. Balkind, Mr. R. Carrick, Mr. W. H. Skinner, Mr. F. W. Hunt, Mr. H. Hargreaves Mr. G. W. Hargreaves, Mr. T. H. Baker, Mr. F. R. W. Kirk, Mr. N. Andrews, Mr. R. Nettleton, Mr. G. W. Haverfleld, Mr. J. Saunders, Mr. A. C. Horniman, Mr. A. J. Inkson, Mr. C. W. Anderson, Mr. James Amess, Christchurch; Mr. S'. C. Hancock, Mr. J. Gruar, Mr. D. A. Fay, Captain K. Gilmer, Wellington; Mi’. E. Horneman, LieutenantColonel P. A. Lindsay, Mr. E. W. Gabites, Auckland; Mr. E. Nicol, Mr. W. Best, Mr. A. C. Alcock, Mr. D. V. Gain, Mr. D. G. Macpherson, Mr. F. Leitch, Mr. J. Shaw, Mr. W. S. Bellamy, Mr. W. Thomson, Mr. H. Clark, Mr. W. G. Hurley, Dunedin; Mr. W. F. Hamilton, Mrs. Gillard, Miss K. Hamilton, Mr. W. Hamilton, Junr., Ashwick Flat; Mr. F. J. Wallace, Mr. M. C. Middleton, Wainiate; Mr. C. J. Talbot. Fairlie; Mr. and Mrs. Cannie, Misses Kirkland (2), Middle March; Mr. J. D. McGruer, Invercargill; Dr. J. A. Will, Rangiora.

SPLENDID REMEDY FOR CHILDREN’S COUGHS.

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From all chemists or stores, or direct from Hean’s Pharmacy, Wanganui, on receipt of price, 2s. Wherever you buy be sure you get the genuine and original Hean’s Essence. No other will do. H-E-A-N-’S. 10