HERE AND THERE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1468, 13 June 1918, Page 36

HERE AND THERE.

Sir Robert Anderson, chairman of the Defence Expenditure Commission, and Lady Anderson have arrived in Auckland from the south.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hislop, of Hastings, have been visiting Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rainger, of Epsom, Auckland, are leaving on a two months’ visit to Sydney and Melbourne.

Mr. Farmer Whyte, for some time engaged in New Zealand journalism and in recent years on the “Sydney Morning Herald,” has been appointed editor of the Brisbane “Mail.”

The Victoria Cross was instituted ■on January 29, 1856.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Reid, of Wellington, are on a visit to Te Aroha.

Mr. Nancarrow, of the Union Company’s Dunedin office, has arrived back in New Zealand from Australia.

Mr. Paul Hunter, Porangahau, Hawke’s Bay, has donated £lOOO to the Red Jersey Fund.

Three Lawrence (Otago) settlers were each fined £2 and costs last week for failure to destroy rabbits.

When the last mail left England, Captain T. E. Seddon, M.P., was on the eve of his departure from England for the United States on propaganda work.

Captain W. F. Fowlds, who has been awarded the Military Cross, is the youngest son of the Hon. George Fowlds, of Auckland. He is 24 years of age, and has been fighting for two years in France.

Lieutenant - Colonel Cecil Humphries (awarded a bar to the Military Cross) is a son of Mrs. Rouse, formerly licensee of the Excelsior Hotel, Christchurch, and now living in England.

Mr. R. G. Poulton. Deputy-Reg's-trar of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Wellington, was the recipient of a presentation from the staff prior to going into camp.

Captain White Parsons, harbourmaster at Napier, has been appointed lieutenant - commander of the Royal Naval Reserve, with seniority as from the beginning of this year.

Superintendent N. Kiely, of Auckland, has gone to Wellington to relieve Mr. Donovan, Commissioner of Police, who is about to take extended holiday leave on account of ill-health.

Trappers in the Alexandra (Otago) district are reported to have had a good season, and some large cheques have been paid out. One trapper's cheque last month was in the vicinity of £lOO.

Recent visitors to Auckland stay ing at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, were: Sir James Allen, Acting Prime Minister; Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Beatson, Hastings; Hon. C. Louisson and Mrs. Louisson, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. Enson, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. W. Hume, Wairarapa; Mr. C E. Carr, Tauranga; Mr. J. Bull, Rangitikei; Mr. and Mrs. W. Mcßae Ppacock, Tuakau; Mr. J. D. Williams, Tokomaru Bay; Mr. and Mrs. Leicester Matson, Christchurch; Mr. J. E. Nathan, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. G. Clarkson, Christchurch.

A recent cable states that Captain Amundsen is to sail for the Arctic Ocean in July. He will be absent for three years.

The Rev. J. W. Burton, who, for nine years, has laboured amongst the Hindus in Fiji, and then visited India in order to study the problems of Hindu immigration at its source, is on a visit to New Zealand.

“Men are now more important than farm produce,” remarked Mr. J. W. Poynton S.M., at the Military Appeal Court at Masterton, when a single farmer was appealing for time. “Production is at present a secondary consideration.”

At the Returned Soldiers’ Conference recently held in Auckland, the following officers were elected: — President, Mr. C. W. Batten (Wellington) ; vice-presidents, Dr. Boxer (Napier), Messrs. N. B. McCallum (Christchurch), T. W. Stringer (Hamilton), J. Melling (Auckland); hon. treasurer, Mr. G. Munro (Wellington).

There is tremendous enthusiasm in America, said Mr. A. G. Wise, general manager of the Melbourne “Herald,” after a visit to the United States. The preparations are on such a gigantic scale that at present their aid is not so effective as it might be, but when it does come, in the visitor’s words, “God pity the Hun.”

Dr. F. M. Gellatly, financial editor of the Sydney “Morning Herald,” has been chosen by the Commonwealth Government as Director of Science and Industry, at £1250 a year.

News has been received in Christchurch that Brigadier-General A. W. Andrew, of the 50th Brigade, Mesopotamia Field Force, has had conferred on him the honour of Companion of the Bath.

The number of fives lost in 1917 on Swedish vessels torpedoed or sunk on mines was about 140.

Mr. Ernest Wild, of the Ross Sea party of the Shackleton Expedition, and brother to Mr. Frank Wild, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s second in command, has been killed while serving in a mine-sweeper.

Mr. R. H. Skipwith, the well-known New Zealand sporting writer and starter, when the last mail left England, was training with the Army Service Corps at Sling Camp, with the rank of corporal. He was then expecting to go to the front very shortly.

“We are fighting for our very existence. The men of the Second Division have to decide whether they are prepared to give up their homes for two or three years or whether they will sacrifice them for all time,” said Mr. W. G. K. Kenrick, S.M., speaking of the pressing need for men at the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court.

Mr. Arthur Williams, who has acted as treasurer of the New Zealand War Contingent Association in England for the last nine months, has intimated that he now wishes to give his services free. This generous offer will result in a saving to the association’s funds of £2OO per annum.

A well known figure in New Zealand football circles, Mr. H. S. Turtill, was killed in .France recently. Mr. Hurtill was a Canterbury fullback, representing the Canterbury province on 18 occasions, and was also a New Zealand representative in 1905. When the professional All Black team left here to tour England, Turtill joined it, and afterwards settled down in Lancashire.

At the annual meeting of the Otago Acclimatisation Society, the president (Mr. G. W. Mclntosh) said it had been decided to cull out 500 of the red deer in the Hawea district at 3s. 6d. a head, but he thought at least 1000 should be killed off in the immediate future. The red deer at Pomahaka were not too thick, but new blood was required to bring them up to quality. Despite the fact that an open season had been declared for deer in the Lindis and Morven Hills districts, no one had taken any advantage of the chance to shoot at the proper time for procuring venison. Owing to the fact that the Government was fully occupied with urgent war measures, the society had still to defer its purpose of getting

control over opossums, which were being rapidly killed off in several districts. The new pond at the Clinton hatcheries was not yet in use, but it would enable a larger number of yearlings and two-year-olds to be turned out.

Mr. C. A. Schauer, long and favourably known in sporting circles in Wellington, has entered into possession of the Grand Hotel at Wellington, where his popularity should make the Grand a home away from home. Travellers and tourists will always be assured of a hearty welcome at this leading Wellington hotel. :I: “I heard a chap say the other day,” remarked Major-Chaplain Taylor in an address at the Town Hall, Wellington, “that New Zealand has sent enough men away. I say we have not sent enough men away until we have won. (Applause.) We are up against the biggest thing in the world, and we can only overcome it by all of us becoming soldiers — whether you are in camp, or whether you are fortunately out of it.”

The death took place at Wellington last week of Mrs. Beatrice Adams, wife of Mr. J. S. Adams, of Otaki, the well-known sportsman and owner, at the early age of 30 years. Mrs. Adams had only been ill a few days, the immediate cause of death being acute inflammation following on a chill. The funeral, which took place at Karori Cemetery on Tuesday last, was largely attended, while many beautiful wreaths were sent. The last rites were carried out by the Rev. Mr. Hunt, of the Congregational Church. Mr. Adams has the sympathy of a wide circle of friends in his sad bereavement.

“New Zealand is the most prosperous country in the world,” said the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald in the course of a speech at the Farmers’ Union smoke concert in Masterton recently. “This is not due to the Government, but it is due to the loyalty and the industry of the people.”

A cable from Chicago announces that Jess Willard, champion heavyweight boxer of the world, has definitely retired from the roped arena, and that it is unlikely he will ever fight again. Willard won the championship from Jack Johnson over two years ago, and since coming into possession of the title has not engaged in a combat of any importance, though several persistent claimants have clamoured without success for a meeting with the champion.

Mr. W. H. Field, M.P., at a meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society stated that in former years tuis used to be very plentiful in the Waikanae district, but some time ago these beautiful native birds were shot out. He had recently seen a number of tuis at Waikanae, and it was pleasing to know that they were making their appearance there again in numbers.

The season of 1917, taken as a whole (states the report of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society), gave better sport than for several previous years, but it is still far from satisfactory. It is evident, however, that the policy of liberating pheasants in protected areas and on private properties (where they are unmolested by their natural enemies), which has been carried out by the council, is slowly improving the chances of license holders. The systematic liberation of birds in those parts of the district which offer food and cover is the only method by which the standard can be raised.

A recent issue of the Dunedin “Star” contained the following: An example of military officiousness was experienced by our reporter who was on duty at the send-off to the 42nd Reinforcements. Though he was perfectly well known to the officers in charge, and his bona tides vouched for by his Worship the Mayor and a City Councillor, the staff officer said that the reporter must leave unless he was in possession of a pass. The military policemen who escorted our representative off the station were merely doing their duty, doubtless, but it seems a pity that a little common sense could not have been exercised by those in authority.

A very candid opinion of the man who sees in the war a means for personal profit was expressed by

Colonel Chaffey, O.C. Canterbury Military District, at the Empire Day celebrations at Christchurch. Any man, he said, who made money during the war, who would have more when it ended than when it began, was not doing his duty. New Zealand was safe because of the Navy. There was no real provision made for those boys in blue who were keeping ceaseless vigil in the North Sea, and it was up to New Zealand to help them.

The following press delegates have been selected to represent New Zealand in response to the invitation from the British Ministry of Information to visit England and the western front, subject to their acceptance: —Mr. C. Earle, editor, “Dominion,” Wellington; Mr. G. Fenwick, managing director, “Otago Daily Times,” Dunedin; Mr. W. J. Geddis, editor, “New Zealand Times,” Wellington; Mr. R. M. Hacket, editor, “New Zealand Herald,” Auckland; Mr. F. Plrani, chairman of the provincial section of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, Feilding; Mr. M. L. Reading, editor, “Lyttelton Times,” Christchurch.