THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1426, 23 August 1917, Page 34

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

Lieutenant Keith Duthie, who has been killed in action, was the youngest son of Mr. D. W. Duthie, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand and formerly manager of the Auckland branch. Lieutenant Duthie was educated at King’s College and later he studied law at the Auckland University. He left with the Rifle Brigade and was promoted recently on the field.

Captain Stenhouse, Captain Worsley (ex-captain of the Endurance) and Dr. Cope arrived in England the first week in April and reported for service.

Mr. Charles E. Stichbury, of Wellington, has been appointed manager of the Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay districts of the Government Insurance Department, with headquarters at Napier.

Corporal L. C. L. Averill, son of Bishop Averill, who has been in camp for some time as a n.c o. in the Twenty-ninth Reinforcement draft, has passed his examination, and has received a commiss’on as a second lieutenant.

Major Weston, of New Plymouth, has been promoted to the rank of lieut.-colonel.

Major G. E. Gabites, N.Z.M.C., has been appointed commandant of the military camp at Awapuni. * * * *

Captain W. H. McLean, formerly Ist assistant-master in the Feilding High School, who has been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in the la Basse Ville fighting, is well-known in military and athletic circles throughout the Wellington and Manawatu provinces.

In response to members’ requests, the Defence Minister (Sir James Allen) informed Parliament last week that the number of soldiers who had returned from the front was 10,517. Of these 9265 had received their discharge, 1244 had returned to duty, 48 had died, 119 were awaiting final disposal and 216 were under treatment. Of the 25 remaining 19 were on special leave, four had deserted, and two were in prison.

A young New Zealander who has made good in America is Mr. Will Hope, formerly of Auckland. Mr. Hope has won an acknowledged position as a cartoonist in the United States, working for many of the leading magazines. He was recently selected to fill the place temporarily of Mr. McCutcheon, who is in the front rank of American black and white artists.

Dr. G. J. Adams, late of Patea and Foxton, who was visiting Scotland when war broke out, was appointed regimental doctor to the Royal Scots. He was recalled to England last year as surgeon-specialist to the Ripon Military Hospital and is now in France as a specialist in the 26th General Hospital, one of the largest and most important bases in the northern section of the British line.

Of the several States of Australia, West Australia, it is stated, secured the highest proportion of recruits by the voluntary system. According to Captain Burkett, the organising secretary of the Western Australian State Recruiting Committee, there are now very few single men who are fit and eligible left in the country districts of Western Australia. The mining settlements stood out strikingly. In Kalgoorlie, for in-

stance, with a population of about 30,000, one-fifth, or a total of 6000, had joined the colours. The public co-operated with the recruiting committees and gave strong assistance. Employers helped in every possible way.

Mr. D. G‘. Fraser, borough engineer at Gisborne, is about to retire after 40 years’ service, 17 of which were spent in Poverty Bay.

A humorist, observes the Wellington “Post,” might derive a wealth of fun from all the hypocrisy, conscious or unconscious, to which the war situation has given rise. First and foremost would appear the youthful shirker who calls for the conscription of wealth, and the rich but overage patriot who would like to maintain two New Zealand divisions on starvat on allowances, “always provided that private enterprise is not overtaxed.” These twain must inevitably go hand-in-hand. Then there is the stylish young lady who posts white feathers to unappreciative males, and who walks the Quay of an afternoon with at least £5O worth of clothing on her small self. A place would also be found in the humorists’ gallery for the business person who would tax every business except his own; for the comfortable dame who fails to understand why soldiers’ wives do not go into domestic service; for the tea-house or marble bar

habitue, who laments the money wasted in hotels; and for the hotel patron who returns the compliment. On presenting the report of the Marine Department in the House of Representatives, the Hon. G. W. Russell (Minister for Marine) referred to the great success attending the acclimatisation of quinnat salmon in New Zealand. This Dominion, he said, was, he believed, the only country which had successfully acclimatised this fine fish. Repeated efforts ' had been made in Australia, but without success. A fish of this species has never been seen in Australia. One or two were said to have been seen in the Tasmanian rivers, but they had not been identified. Mr. Russell added that the Rangitata River was now making a record as regards the entrance of fish from the sea. He saw no reason, indeed, why they should not next year start drawing on fish by the ton from the New Zealand market and he ventured to predict that within five years New Zealand would be exporting tens of thousands of pounds of salmon to Australia, probably at Is. a pound.

The Governor-General has been informed by cablegram that the King has been graciously pleased to appoint Surgeon-General R. S. F. Henderson, R.A.M.C., Director-General of Medical Services in New Zealand, a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. • • • • The Prime Minister said in the House last week that the necessary legislation for providing for better financial assistance to the dependents of Second Division men would be put through this session. « C S * Speaking in the House of Representatives in regard to a question relating to Mr. Malcolm Ross, the New Zealand Official War Correspondent, the Hon. Sir James Allen stated that Capta'n Ross had only acted as military censor on one occasion, when nobody else was available # « * * The Defence Minister the other day read an extract from a letter received from the High Commissioner in reference to the bur'al in Britain of New Zealand soldiers. The letter stated that all Dominion officers who died at Home were buried in single graves, and that the Imperial authorities especially desired to bear the cost of any land required for our soldiers’ graves. The Minister explained that he and the Minister of Public Health

were now arranging for some uniform design for permanent headstones to be placed over the graves of New Zealand soldiers. • * * • General Castelnau, the famous French leader, whom all France loves, is a heavily-made little man, very quick in thought and speech, as kindly as is possible, with a penetrating and even inquisitorial mind. Castelnau has done much for France in this war. He commanded the army which threw back the Prussians from before Nancy, on the heights of the Grand Couronne, and perhaps by this movement won the Battle of the Marne. He was Joffre’s sturdy and loyal lieutenant as Chief of Staff throughout the tempests of two years, and by his quick decision Verdun was saved. The Chief Command was within his grasp, but he did not get it. With three sons killed in the war, and another missing, as a prisoner, Castelnau might have retired with honour. But he works from six every morning still, as commander of one of the three groups of armies. And his front is a model in organisation.

The experiences of Captain Neville, late of the Union Company, while in command of a New Zealand troopship were publicly related by that gentleman in Palmerston North recently. Immediately on the outbreak of wai- Captain Neville was appointed to the command of a troopship, which conveyed the 2nd Reinforcements to Egypt From that time up to the present he has made seven voyages with New Zealand troops—five to Egypt and two to England—the total number carried by his ship being about 10,000. Captain Neville described the experiences with his living freights in many seas where dangers abounded —in the danger zone surrounding Great Britain, and in other places where the enemy was suspected to be lurking. He disabused the minds of any who were under the impression that oui’ troopships had not sufficient protection at sea. The British Government was giving, by means of the Navy, all possible protection by convoys, and he mentioned that on his last voyage out to New Zealand British warships were within hail from the time of leaving England until almost within sight of Australia.

In his book, “A Surgeon in Belgium,” Dr. H. Souttar, who was formerly surgeon in charge of a Belgian Field Hospital, mentions some of the remarkable achievements of surgery. He describes the effect of a new method of spinal anaesthesia which he used largely for difficult abdominal

cases. “With the injection Gf a minute quantity of fluid into the spine,” he says, “all sensation disappears up to the level of the arms, and, provided he cannot see what is going on, any operation below that level can be carried out without the patient knowing anything about it at all. It is rather uncanny at first to see a patient lying smoking a cigarette and reading a paper, whilst on the other side of the screen a big operation is in progress.” Dr. Souttar says the German bullet is more subtle than the dum-dum. “It is short pointed,” he says, “and when it strikes it turns completely over and goes through backwards. The base of the bullet is not covered, and consequently spreads in a manner precisely similar to that of the dum-dum, with equally deadly results.”

The struggle between the Government and the Trades Hall for possession of the State transport services brought about results ranging from the ludicrous to the tragic, writes a Sydney correspondent. During the period the railways and the tramways have been practically •paralysed. Sydney has disinterred the ancient, half-forgotten ’bus, and at a single step has gone back to the conditions of the long ago. Instead of an almost continuous stream of cars through the city and along the suburban highways, occasional cars have only been detected at long intervals. Instead of hundreds of trains running in and out of the central station daily, a dozen or so have been provided. People living in the outer suburbs have journeyed to town in drays and lorries, or been compelled to walk. Those living nearer have nearly all had to depend on their feet. During the first day or so of the stoppage there were fearful and wonderful scenes at the railway stations —trains rushed by thousands of citizens anxious to either get to work or home, girls and women passed in through carriage windows, steps and plat-

forms crowded to the last available inch of space. In the mornings and evenings the main approaches to the city along which people have been transported in car loads are crowded with a pedestrian humanity. Little is heard of the powerful nature and complete organisation of the Italian forces, which is an immense army, far larger than Sir Douglas Haig’s force in France. Italy has mobilised several millions of men, and these men are fighting with valour, tenacity and enthusiasm, and are, moreover, the freshest army in Western Europe. Perhaps because they are simple in mind, like children, and endure the fortunes of war when they come, without asking why. The man behind the whole organism is Cadorna. He is typical of the Italian army, and the army is typical of him. He belongs to his soldiers, and his soldiers are truly called “Cadorna’s men.” Cadorna does not like display. His ideal is the quiet dutifulness of the .-plain, scientific soldier. He asks for results with a minimum of excitement. It is said that when Peppino Garibaldi, who is noted for his reckless courage, sought a commission in the Italian army after having served as a volunteer in France, he was recommended by the poet D’Annunzio as “one of the bravest.” “That is bad,” said Cadorna. “He sings and laughs amid a ha'l of enemy explosives,” said D’Annunzio.

“Bad, bad,” said Cadorna. “At the mere sight of him his men become seized with an enthusiasm that leads them to rush joyfully to death in an intoxication of holy ardour,” said D’Annunzio. “Worse and worse,” replied Cadorna. “What qualities, then, are required?” asked D’Annunzio. “I am of the opinion,” answered the General, “that he should be taught first of all not to get killed himself, and not to expose his men without need. An officer who is worthy of his position does not fear death, but he does not despise life. He must be cool, methodical and serious.”

Last week’s arrivals at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru, included:—Mr. and Mi’s. R. M. Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Baird, Arrowtown: Mr. W. Paterson, Nelson; Mr. J. D. McGruer, Invercargill: Mr. W. J. Trusttum, Mr. G. M. Hall, Mi 1 . H. K. Foley, Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Grierson, Mr. and Mrs. .Smith, Mrs. R. Allan, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Carney, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. King, Mrs. E. Narbey, Mr. C. Wigglesworth, Mr. B. Armitage, Mr. >S. Jacobs, Mr. W. Smythe,

Mr. G. B. Cumming, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hamilton, Ashwick Flat; Mr. W. M. Jacks, Mr. F. H Matthews, Auckland; Mr. W. L. Hooson, Mr. A. E. Freear, Mr. P. Lock, Mr. C. F. Brown, Wellington; Mr. W. E. Ludlow, United States; Mr. Wales, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Clayton, Miss Pat Clayton. Mr. D. V. Gain, Mr. A. M. Hendy, Mr. E. Bingham, Mr. W. Thomson, Mr. J. Shaw, Mr. E. H. Lough, Mr. Fred. Archer. Dunedin; Mr. J. Spinley, Hamilton: Mr. W. J. Moore, Timaru; Mr. T. J. Gaffaney, Melbourne; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Smith, Wanganui; Mr. C. Davie, Springburn; Mr. W. P. Fleming, Mr. J. Perry, Gore; Mr. J. Faulks, Pembroke; Mr. George Henry, Oamaru.

The Prime Minister (Hon. W. F. Massey) does not think it will be feasible to adopt the suggestion of the member for Auckland West (Mr. Poole), that a gift of a tin of butter be sent to every New Zealand soldier. The difficulties of transport and distribution are too great. A Press Association cable message from Sydney announces the death of Mr. J. Haines, an ex-M.L.C. and one of the founders of the “Bulletin.” An inmate of Newington Workhouse, Southwark, Thomas Handcock, aged 74, claims to be heir to about £BOOO, left by an uncle,, Wiliam Handcock, who died in Australia a month or two ago. The Southwark guardians think so wel! of the old man’s claim that they have instructed a firm of solicitors to act on his behalf.