Tourist and Traveller

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1482, 19 September 1918, Page 36

Tourist and Traveller

HERE AND THERE.

Sir James Carroll has returned to Gisborne after a visit to Rotorua.

Lieutenant Cecil Healy, the Australian champion swimmer, was killed in the fighting at Peronne.

Dr. M. R. Neligan, one-time Anglican Bishop of Auckland, and now rector of Ford, Northumberland, has taken a chaplain’s commission for episcopal duties with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Superintendent- Napier, of the Dunedin City Fire Brigade, has returned from an extended holiday in Australia, where he visited Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Mr. W. J. Polson, of Wanganui, intends- making a health-recruiting trip to Australia.

Mr. D .H. Rundle, Government Fruit Organiser for Tasmania, has resigned that position, having accepted an appointment with the Nelson Co-opera-tive Fruit Company, New Zealand, at a salary of £6OO, rising to £lOOO.

The Rev. Sidney J. Baker, of Melbourne, who has been in New Zealand during the past three months, has returned to Australia.

Members of the Stratford Club entertained Dr. T. L. Paget to bid him farewell on the eve of his departure from Stratford to go into camp as a military medical officer.

Mr. Tom Sullivan, the former sculling champion, was rather badly injured in a thunderstorm in England (writes a London correspondent). Mr. Sullivan recently returned from internment in Ruhleben Camp, Germany, and has taken over the Suffolk Hotel, at Bury St. Edmunds. During a violent thunderstorm he was looking out of an upper storey window trying to discover the cause of an overflow of water, when he was struck violently on the back of the neck by lightning and fell to the ground. He soon recovered consciousness, but suffered from pain and shock.

Captain Kenneth Mackenzie, of Auckland, who has been in the New Zealand Medical Corps for about 18 months, is expected back in the Dominion in October.

Captain J. B. Hine, M.P., who was wounded in Palestine some time ago, and recently returned to the front, left via Sydney in an Australian transport. with about 500 troops on board, consisting of New Zealanders, Australians, and Raratongans. Captain Hine, who is in command of the draft, has the honour of being the first New Zealand officer to be in command of an Australian troopship.

“The Germans destroyed Rheims,” declared Mr. Hurst Seagar at a lecture in Wellington, “not from any military necessity, but because of their jealousy of the great worldfamous Gothic art works of France.” He had read in a German magazine years before the war an article showing how great was that jealousy.

Writing to the Mayor of Waihi (Mr. Dawson Donaldson) from France, ex-Cr. S. H. Walmsley states that the New Zealand Tunnelling Corps holds the record for tunnelling work.

Dr. C. Smith, of Sydney, who has spent two years and a-half on active service with the Australian troops at the front, is on a visit to New Zealand.

Major Bairnsfather’s original coloured drawing of “Old Bill” realised 120 guineas at a Red Cross sale opened in London by Lady Onslow recently.

“In England the dogs are placed on rations, while in Germany they are included in the rations,” observes the Toronto “Mail-Empire.”

Mr. F. Meadowcroft has returned to Wellington after a month’s business trip to Sydney.

A factory for the manufacture of artificial limbs for returned soldiers is being erected in Wellington.

Mr. S. Hurst Seager, architect, in his lecture in Wellington on “Townplanning,” pointed out that while New Zealand occupied a foremost position in regard to the provision of workers’ homes by the State, hitherto such homes had not been arranged on town-planning lines in beautiful groupings. With these he contrasted the fine, well-placed cottages for workers erected at Daceyville, New South Wales, and told how, by offering prizes, the workers were encouraged to beautify their surroundings. Two hundred Belgian artists, he stated, had been employed by the Royal In-

stitute of British architects to prepare plans for the restoration of their country, so that at the end of the war they should be ready at once to rebuild their villages, towns, and cities in accordance with modern ideas of health, comfort, convenience, and beauty.

Mr. M. Rudd, chief clerk in the Union Steamship Company’s Auckland office for the last seven years, has been transferred to Dunedin as acting-secretary in the Company’s head office. As a tribute to his courtesy and assistance extended to the merchants and business community of Auckland, Mr. Rudd was presented at the Chamber of Commerce, before leaving, with a cheque. A silver tea and coffee service was also presented

on behalf of Mrs. Rudd.. Mr. R. Burns, president of the Chamber of Commerce, made the presentation, together with a few enlopstic remarks. Mr. W. Beddoe (Canadian Trade Commissioner), Mr. H. D. Heather and Mr. S. A. Longuet also made pleasing reference to Mr. Rudd’s qualities.

Some two hundred shipping men were present at a gathering tendered Captain James Smith, who has retired from the Union Company’s service. Captain Smith has been with the Union Company for thirty-three years, and during the past twentyseven years he has been in charge of the company’s coal department at Wellington. In presenting Captain

Smith with a cheque for a very substantial amount, Captain J. Dawson (harbourmaster) said that he had never met man who so completely filled his position as did the recipient. He expressed the hope that Captain Smith would be long spared to enjoy his well-earned rest. In recognition of his valuable services, the Union Steam Ship Company has invited Captain Smith to take a three months’ trip.

Speaking recently at an anti-prohi-bition meeting at Newport, England, Mr. Ben Tillett, M.P., said when all rich men emptied their cellars he would honour them. Ninety-five per cent, of our fighting men were nonabstainers, whereas 95 per cent, of our conscientious objectors and. pacifists were teetotallers.

In four days’ coaching from Gisborne to Wairoa, via Tinoroto, and .from Wairoa on to Napier, going through from 150 to 160 miles of clear but sparsely populated country, the Second Wellington Military Service Board, a N.Z. “Times” representative was informed last week, saw not a single rabbit or hare. They saw plenty of ducks (paradise, grey, teal, and grebe,) pheasants, quail, pigeons, tuis, and black swans, but not one rabbit or hare. Comment was freely made on the absence of these fourlegged pests, which are so generally met with in a similar class of country elsewhere, as an eloquent testimonial to the efficiency of the rabbit inspector in the district. The roads, by-the-bye, were reported as in excellent coaching condition.

The famous motor lifeboat Henry Vernon is to be moved to Sundeiland. This boat holds the record for life saving in the United Kingdom, and should prove a great acquisition to the Wear port. It was at the memorable wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, now over three years ago. that the Henry Vernon saved 55 lives after unsuccessful attempts had been made by four other lifeboats.

The Londoner does not know how to use hot weather to the best advantage (says a writer in a recent issue of the “Daily Mail”). Ours is an indoor city. We are not accustomed to sit in the open. The Australians at their buffet in Victoria Street have put seats in the open air in front of the building, and a certain number of the men sit there enjoying the fresh air. Passing Londoners gaze at them in surprise. At the Shakespeare Hut in Gower Street, where the New Zealanders have their headquarters, they ha.ve taken the windows and the partitions out and the men dine as though on a great verandah in open view. Possibly our comrades from the Southern Seas will teach us how to quit our houses and enjoy the open in June days. * # * *

Baseball figures largely, in the training of the American soldiers who are leaving no stone unturned to . get themselves in the best possible fighting fettle for their encounters with the Huns. An innovation in training recently adopted back of the lines is to have the men while playing baseball in their recreation periods wear their gas masks, in order to get them accustomed to breathing properly in these protective devices under all conditions.

In the course of an address given while touring the Western States, Mr. Harry Lauder, while speaking of his visits to the camps in France and Great Britain, said: “There is no organisation in Europe doing more for the troops than the Salvation Army, and the devotion of its officers has caused it to be revered by the men.”

Mr. J. G. McKenzie, at present curator at the Oamaru Botanical Gardens, has received the appointment of Director of Parks and Reserves at Wellington at a salary of £4OO a year, with residence. Mr. McKenzie’s career as a horticulturist has been a varied one, covering experience at Dunedin, Gisborne, and Oamaru. At the latter town he has carried out street improvements to the extent of thousands of pounds, and in the thirty-five acres of public gar.dens he has done excellent work in the shape of rockeries, rose plantations, and aquatic plant areas. He has made a specialty of native flora, and his laying out of the Waitaki Boys’ High School grounds has been a distinct success.

Probate of the will of the late Mr. Robert Heaton Rhodes, of Bluecliffs, was granted by the Supreme Court in Christchurch to the executors, Messrs. F. J. Rolleston, H. Elworthy, A. E. G. Rhodes, and M. H. Godby. Among other bequests is one of £2OOO to the Timaru Borough Council, who are to apply the interest from the money to improvements in Caroline Bay. Mr. Rhodes also left £lOOO, the income from which is to be applied for the benefit of the Otaio and Bluecliffs. Anglican parish.

An English-built vessel of 6430 tons has been completed, and will shortly sail on her maiden voyage. She is propelled by what is known as the Ljungstrom turbo-electric system, in which steam turbines drive electric motors, which operate again on the propeller. The mechanism is controlled from a switchboard similar to that in an electric power station. The advantages claimed for this system are economy in coal consumption and increase of cargo space, which is said to be from 8 to 10 per cent, greater than with a steamer of the same size fitted with the usual type of machinery. which is of the greatest importance at the present time owing to the shortage of shipping.

Lieutenan: Harold Marshall, 3rd. Batt. N.Z.R.B. (son of the late Mr. Raymond W. Marshall, of Wellington), was recommended for a decoration in March last for bravery on the 'field at the same time that his cousin, 2nd Lieutenant Henry T. Marshall, of Wellington, was awarded the Military Cross. The first-named has been promoted to a lieutenancy as a reward. Before enlisting he was in the office of the Ocean Guarantee Association in Wellington.

A New Zealand factory manager who returned last week from a visit to Australia, stated to a “‘New Zealand Times” reporter that Australia is leaving New Zealand far behind as an industrial nation. The reason was that industries in the Commonwealth are receiving encouragement and protection from the Government, and on the other hand the New Zealand Government is giving anything but encouragement to Dominion industries —in cases even placing obstacles in the way of development. What would be the result? After the war New Zealand would be the dumping ground for Australian manufacturers. If the present attitude of the Government towards industries did not change the Dominion must remain purely a pastoral country. New Zealand people would not credit the giant strides being made in Australia in every department of production. It was an eye opener.