THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER 1 HERE AND THERE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1439, 22 November 1917, Page 36

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER 1

HERE AND THERE.

Dr. F. W. Gordon, of Auckland, went down to Wellington last week to farewell his son, who is leaving to join the Royal Flying Corps. He was accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Gordon.

It is stated that there is sufficient wire behind the switchboard alone at the Wellington Telephone Exchange to reach from Wellington to Sydney and back —a d : stance of 2500 miles — or more than one-sixth of the distance between Wellington and London.

Mr. W, Willcox, for the past eleven years superintendent of the Tourist Department’s Domain at Queenstown, has received notice of his transfer to Te Aroha, where he will have charge of the Government Hot Springs Domain. His successor is Mr. J. Dalton, of Te Aroha.

Mr. A. E. Brockett, M.A., of Nelson College, has been appointed to the staff of Christchurch Technical College as ass'stant-master of the day school and assistant-superintendent of the evening classes.

Last week Sir James Allen presented the Military Medal to Corporal C. Lewin and Private A. R. Johnson, both members of the Main Body Auckland Infantry. Corporal Lewin won his decoration by conspicuous good work on Gall poll, and Private Johnson for gallant conduct at Somme. The Colonial Auxiliary Forces long service medal was pre' sented to Major John Grant, who assisted in the formation of the Thames Rifle Rangers in 1868.

Second-lieutenant Edward Henry Roche, only son of Mr. H. Roche, of Cambridge, has been awarded the Military Cross for volunteer work as a forward observer in a recent advance.

The annual report of the Wellington Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association expresses regret at the large number of swimmers who have lost their lives on active service.

Sergeant-Major Holmes, who jumped from a fast-mov ng train on June 26 to rescue Private Labee, who had fallen from the platform, was presented in Wellington with the Royal Humane Society’s bronze medallion and certificate.

Lieutenant Samuel Hanna, younger son of Mr. A. Hanna, solicitor, is in Auckland on furlough. He enlisted in the Royal Army Ar Service, served for some time in Roumania, the Caucasus, and other portions of the eastern theatre of war. Subsequently he went to Russ’a with the armoured motor car portion of the Royal Naval Air Corps. Lieutenant Hanna was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

Mr. G. W. Heaxx (proprietor of Heenzo) intends making an extended torn* through Great Br’tain and America. * * * What is—to put the mildest phrase upon it—something of a stir has been caused throughout Australia by the arrival of the first ship-load of English wives of Austral axx soldiers (writes the Sydney correspondent to the “Otago Daily Times”). A transport, carrying wounded men and sold’ers’ wives, has arrived in Australia, and Sydney’s quota (30) o; the wives —there are 100 altogether—has just landed. Sydney does not appear to know whether to be amused, angry, ox- just critical. There have been many rumours of thousands of Australian soldiers be'ng captured by English girls, but Australia did not worry, each Australian girl had faith in hex’ owxx man. But now that the Australian Government representatives in London are beginning to ship the young wives out here, the Aus-

land. And the real pity of it is that this country already possesses more marriageable girls than there are men available. What with the wastage of war, and the depredations of the English misses, things look bad for the Australian spinster. * * * * The library of Dr. G. Ernest Morrison, of Pek'n, who was appointed political adviser to the Chinese Republic in 1912, was purchased by Baron Iwasaki, the Japanese millionaire shipbuilder, banker, nine and dockyard owner, for £35.000. It conbooks on China in every language. The Ibrary will be transferred complete to Tokio, and will retain Dr. Morrison’s name. Dr. Morrison had begun this collection before the Boxer rising of 1900, and it was during a sortie from the Brit’sh Legation at Pekin to cause a diversion, and incidentally to see if his house and I brary had been damaged, that

he got a bullet in the thigh. He naturally claimed compensation for the damage done by the Boxers. Dr. Morr son is a New Zealander. Mr. A. E. Reynolds, secretary of the Otago Military Service Board, was the recipient of a handsome case of cutlery, suitably inscribed, from the members of the Board on the occasion of his marriage. * * # * Mr. Daniel Low. father of Mr. D. Low, a cartoonist of the Sydney “Bulletin,” has arrived in Wellington from Australia. # * * * Mr. A. H. Lindo, examiner to the Associated Board of the R.A.M. am) R.C.M., London, is at present on the West Coast. He will then go to Christchurch, returning to Wellington for Christmas, and probably staying at Rotorua until March, when he will complete the exam nation in Dunedin and Invercargill.

The Prime Minister, the Hon. W. F. Massey, spent the week end in Auckland, and received a number of deputat : ons at the Grand Hotel. * * * * The death has occurred in Dunedin, at the age of 91, of Mr. J. R. Hooper, who had had an adventurous career. The late Mr. Hooper was born in London in 1826, and lived during five re gns. He received his first business training n the office of his father, who was at that time senior partner in the ‘firm of Messrs. Willis, Gann and Co., which ran the first ships out to New Zealand, and which was really the nucleus -of the present Shaw, Savill and Albion Company. In 1848 he went to Mexico with h’s elder brother, and after being connected w’th mining operations there for about a yedr he returned to England. He arrived at Lyttelton by the ship Duke of Portland in 1851. After being in Japan for some time, he returned

to New Zealand in 1874, the voyage occupying nine months, and he rema’ned in Dunedin until his death. A Government order has now been issued to the effect that every alien is required to make application for registration in the prescribed form not later than Decembei’ 1, 1917. “Alien” means a person of either sex not less than fifteen years of age who is not a British subject either by birth or by naturalisation in New Zealand. The penalty for failing to register is £5O. Further particulars regarding the Registration of Aliens will be found in an announcement appearing elsewhere in this issue. ♦ * * * Mr. T. M. Wilford has received upwards of 400 telegrams of congratulation upon his appointment to the position of Minister for Justice in the Coalition Ministry. Among the number received, which came from all parts of the Dominion, were telegrams

sent by nearly every member of Parliament. Mr. Wilford was born in Wellington in 1870, and is consequently forty-seven years of age. He is the son of the late Dr. J. G. F. Wilford, of Lower Hutt. He was educated at Canterbury College, Christchurch. and was admtted to the Bar in 1891. He has represented the Hutt district since 1903.

Visitor (brightly, to wounded Tommy with head swathed in bandages and mouth almost hidden): “Now, chatter away, and tell me all about it.”