TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1505, 27 February 1919, Page 38

TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. and Mrs. Shirtcliff e, Wellington, are leaving for England by the Niagara.

Mr. J. Douglas Perrett, the wellknown Auckland artist, has been on a sketching visit to Lake Waikaremoana.

Surgeon-Major W. C. Hartgill (M.C. with bar) and Flight-Major G. Hartgill, of Dannevirke, are on their way back to New Zealand.

Mr. George Hutchison, ex-M.P., of Wellington, leaves shortly on an extended visit to the Old Country, on professional business.

The Hon. A. L. D. Fraser, who lately returned from a health recruiting trip to Australia, died at Hastings on Monday last.

Captain P. V. Storkey, V.C., of Napier, accompanied by his parents and sister, motored to Auckland last week and stayed at the Grand Hotel. Captain Storkey left on Saturday for Sydney.

Mr. Walter Carter, of Tahuma, Nelson. who is one of the foremost diamond drill experts in Australasia, has gone to Karangahake, Upper Thames, to fulfil an important engagement with the Talisman Gold Mining Company.

Mr. James MacDonald. chief accountant of the New Zealand Railways, has been appointed assistant general manager, in succession to Mr. McVilly, recently appointed general manager on the retirement of Mr. Hiley.

Sergeant F. Matthews, formerly private secretary to the Minister of Defence, arrived in Wellington by the Ruapehu.

Mr. W. E. H. Knowles is revisiting Napier after an absence of 30 years. He has been serving as engineerlieutenant in the Naval Transport Service, and was also engaged on hospital ships and mine-sweepers in the British Channel until his health broke down and he returned to the Dominion.

The Wellington City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton) has arranged to leave New Zea’and for America and England by the Niagara, sailing about March 28.

Mr. James Milne. Inspector under the Wanganui Education Board, is retiring at the end of next month after a service of 52 years in education work, 21 of these being spent in Scotland, and 31 in the Dominion.

Lieutenant William Grace, at ofie time a well-known representative footballer, has returned to Wellington. He is still slightly lame as a result of injuries received last year.

Mr. G. Falla, chief engineer on the Navua, died last week. Mr. Falla joined the Union Steamship Company in 1905, and had since been in several of the company’s vessels, being promoted chief engineer in 1916, and subsequently joining the Navua as chief. He was 36 years of age.

Cable advice has been received by Mr. D. E. Ivory, of Dunedin, that his son. Lieutenant L. J. Ivory, M.A., LL.B., who left with the Third Reinforcements, has obtained a scholarship at the Oxford University.

Mr. P. H. Upton, general manager of the South British Insurance Company, leaves by the Makura next month on a visit to England. During his absence Mr. F. H. Carr, manager of the Dunedin branch, will be acting-general manager of the company.

Mr. H. D. Robertson, honorary secretary to the British Red Cross League, proposes leaving for a trip to Great Britain, accompanied by Mrs. Robertson. They hope also to visit France and Belgium before returning to Auckland.

Lieutenant Charles Gillespie, M.C., of Masterton, is among a list of officers who recently received their decorations from His Majesty the King at Buckingham Palace.

Admiral Lord Jellicoe will probably arrive in New Zealand on August 18, and will leave about October 1.

Mr. H. Oakley Brown, private secretary to Sir Joseph Ward, recently underwent an operation in Wellington. He expects to resume his duties shortly.

Canterbury contained 4000 square miles more than Belgium, declared Mr. J. A. Frostick to the Parliamentary Industries Committee in Christchurch, and yet Belgium contained seven and a-half million inhabitants. Why should we, he asked, hesitate to push our country ahead because we had not the employment to provide? After the war there would be a great exodus from Britain.

The Hon. A. M. Myers (Minister of Customs) states that the importation of coal from Australia this month will be 50,000 tons. He thinks that the difficulty in regard to coal trucks on the railways has been overcome.

Mr. James Jamieson, who has left for Europe, was entertained by the Council of the Canterbury Art Society. Mr. N. L. Macbeth, the president, spoke of the valuable work done for art in Canterbury by Mr. Jamieson, and on behalf of the Council wished him bon voyage and a safe return.

Captain Mervyn R. Reed, a son of Mr. J. R. Reed, K.C., who left Egypt in charge of the draft of soldiers which arrived by the transport Mamari, contracted scarlatina in a mild form prior to reaching Australia, and was left behind in hospital in Melbourne.

On retiring from the Nelson Volunteer Fire Brigade, after 32 years’ service, Captain T. Woodward and Treasurer J. E. Hounsell were each presented by the citizens with a solid silver tea service.

Mr. E. W. Relph, manager of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury, who has been granted extended leave by the directors, has left for England.

Mr. G. W. Hutchison has been appointed to act as lecturer in commerce at the Auckland University College for the ensuing year, in the absence of Mr. W. H. Hemingway, who is on sick leave.

Sir Cecil and Lady Moon, who have been residents of Dunedin for the past two or three years, leave for England by the Ayrshire.

Lance-Corporal George Beaumont Hogan, son of Mr. George Hogan, of Mangawai. has been awarded the Croix de Guerre.

Giving evidence before the Parliamentary Industries Committee, Mr. J. A. Frostick, Efficiency Commissioner for Canterbury, said the statement had been made to the Efficiency Board that if the land of New Zealand were scientifically treated the primary production of this country could be increased three fold.

The death is announced from Ottawa of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, ex-Prime Minister of Canada at the age of 78 years. He had been Premier of Canada for fourteen years consecutively.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie has been reappointed High Commissioner for New Zealand for a further term of four months as from February 22. The periodical reappointments for a term of four months only are due to the fact that the High Commissioner insists upon being able at any time to resign at four months’ notice.

The inmates of Park Island, Napier, were much honoured and delighted by receiving a visit from Captain Storkey, V.C. The captain was introduced by the manager in a few wellchosen words, and was greeted with unstinted applause by the veterans. Captain Storkey was much interested to meet one old gentleman who will celebrate his hundredth birthday on July 31 prox., the veteran being equally pleased to grasp the hand of one who had been so highly honoured.

“Many people hold the view that New Zealand can never be a manufacturing country, but must devote itself to primary industries in the main,” said Mr. G. Mappiebeck at a meeting of the Central Chamber of Commerce in Wellington, but this idea is a fallacious one.” Mr. Mapplebeck said that as a matter of fact over half the population of New Zealand lived by the secondary industries. Up till about 15 years ago the same idea was held in Canada, but at last Canadian business men became wide awake to the possibilities, and Canada became an exporting country for manufactured goods. In 1901 Canadian manufacturers exported were valued at 16,012,208 dollars, whereas in 1915 they had increased in value to 85,539,501 dollars.

France’s war expenditure to the end of January was £7,280,000,000.

A London correspondent describes how 7 Second-Lieutenant Leslie Cecil Lloyd Averill, N.Z.R.8., son of Bishop Averill, of Auckland, won the Military Cross. When all the other officers of his company became casualties, early in the attack, Lieutenant Averill took command and led the men forward to the objective, where, in spite of heavy fire from the enemy, he consolidated with great skill. His personal gallantry and cheerfulness greatly encouraged his men, and his capable handling contributed to our success.

“There is no country in the world where the live stock are so healthy as in New Zealand,” said Mr. D. Cuddy, Director of the Dairy Division, to the Industries Committee in Wellington. Replying to a suggestion that it might be advisable to “house” dairy cattle in the winter, Mr. Cuddy said that New Zealand’s climate, generally, did not require such precautions. It was considered advisable to keep the cattle in the open during winter, provided they had good feeding and shelter, as housing tended to spread disease.

On leaving the Thames Valley Dairy Company, after 17 years’ service as secretary. Mr. E. V. Quick was presented by the suppliers with a cheque for £lOO. while the employees gave him a gold watch and chain and Mrs. Quick a cameo brooch. He is to be the new secretary of the Waikato Dairy Company.

Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., who has returned from the coast, in conversation with a Gisborne reporter, said he was satisfied the hack was the only really satisfactory method of doing the coast trip. When he left Gisborne it had been raining, and a party of three left in a four-horse vehicle for Tolagjt Bay, and it took 10% hours to accomplish the journey. One hill in particular it took two hours to ascend, and by the time the summit was reached the horses were very tired. They struck high water on the beaches, and the party had to walk several miles. For the first 20 miles he began to wish he had taken a car, but the latter stages of the journey opened his eyes.

Mr. Richard Mitchelson, one of the oldest settlers of the Northern Wairoa district, died on February 17 at his residence at Aoroa, near Dargaville. He was a director of several mining companies and took a keen interest in all matters relating to the welfare of the Northern Wairoa district. Mr. Mitchelson, who was a brother of the Hon. E. Mitchelson, leaves a widow and a daughter, the latter being Mrs. John Mackenzie,, of Hamilton.

King-fishing enthusiasts from Auckland and the south are reported to be having excellent sport at the Bay of Islands.

A Reuter message from Paris, dated December 17, stated that at a general meeting of the General Union of Hotelkeepers it was unanimously decided that for 10 years no person of enemy origin should be admitted either as employee or as guest. The decision will be forwarded to all hotelkeepers’ unions in Allied countries.

Cabinet’s proposals for peace celebrations will be sent to all local governing bodies throughout the Dominion, states the Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs. The medal that is to be presented will be on the same lines as a medal issued in commemoration of the part taken by New Zealand in the Boei’ War. Approximately, there are 225,100 children attending the schools of the Dominion —namely, public schools, 190,000; registered private schools 18,500; secondary, including technical and day schools, 11,000; Native schools, 5000; industrial schools, 600. It is intended to give the medal to all these children, and in addition to the 225,100 there will be another 15,000 medals for children who have not yet attained school age, so that they may retain a memento of the great event. A design for the medal will be prepared immediately.

To show their appreciation of the sacrifices made by the merchant seamen and sailors in the great war, Mr. Edward Holt, of Cape Runaway, one of the owners of the Blue Funnel Line of steamships trading out of Liverpool, and Mr. W. Kinross White, of Napier, have jointly presented a motor car to the Wellington Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association, to be raffled in aid of the funds for the widows and orphans of seamen who have lost their breadwinners as a result of war circumstances. The car, which arrived in Wellington from Napier by the s.s. Ripple’ at the beginning of this week, is one of the very latest models- and was especially built to the order of the great actress Pauline Chase, the chassis and engine being by the White Co., of America, and the body by Cann,* the leading bodymakers of London. The art union promises to be a great success, and the travellers are working hard with a view to collecting a huge sum in aid of the funds.

Under the will of Mr. Batty, late of the Lodge, Longlands, Dawlish, Devon, a marble bust of Napoleon the Great is to be placed in the Auckland Museum. The bust was originally from the studio of the celebrated Italian sculptor Canova, but it is not supposed that it was executed by Canova himself, but by one of his students. It will be some months before it is received in Auckland.

A creditable achievement is that of Mr. L. Willis, of the staff of Kennedy, Lusk, and Morling, solicitors, Napier. Though only 16 years of age, Mr. Willis has passed his final section in the law professional examinations.

A large catch of trevalli was made at Port Chalmers in a very simple manner. When the trawler Express was being taken into the dock she was followed in by many hundred trevalli, and as the water was pumped out a very animated scene was witnessed, a large number of men and boys scooping the fish out with their hands, or any suitable article they could get hold of.

Speaking at the Science Congress in Christchurch, the president of the New Zealand Institute (Dr. L. Cockayne), said New Zealand was above all a farming community. Many of Nature’s secrets of 100 years ago were now the priceless possessions of man. Those, when more generally applied than at present, would make our fields yield a much greater return. That would be a great advance, but without the discovery of further fundamental principles, now unknown, agriculture would only reach a stage far from perfection. Our scientific duty as a nation was not only to apply to the best of our ability our present knowledge, but, by means of purely academic investigations, to discover further fundamental principles on which the great-ly-improved farming of the future would depend.

Mr. H. D. Robertson, secretary of the Auckland Joint Committee of the British Red Cross and Order of bt. John, intends to leave by the Makura next month on a visit to America and England. Mrs. Robertson accompanies him, and they expect to be away about eight months. * * * *

Mr. and Mrs. W. Kellie Smith (With their children and nurse), of Penang, Straits Settlement, motored through to Wellington from Auckland, taking in the thermal districts, and are now making a tour of the' South Island.

Captain Bollons, of the Government steamer Hinemoa, who for some time had been ashore on account of illness, has resumed command of his vessel. Captain Hooper, who had been temporarily in command, will return to the Amokura.

The official returns of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 191 4 ; 18 show that New Zealand, in addition to 100 444 men, sent no less than 10,117 horses to the front. These were shipped during the period October,’l9l4, to October, 1916 when it was found that no more horses were required from the Dominion In excess of this number New Zealand also sent 121 horses to Samoa, and on the signing of the armistice had 498 horses in the training camps and remount depot. It is understood that few, if any, of the horses New Zealand despatched abroad will be returned to the Dominion.

Long-tailed cuckoos, moki moki (or bell bird), kawakawas, and pigeons are now fairly plentiful on the ranges at the back of Otaki. Wild pigs are also numerous, while fine specimens of goats have recently been seen. Deer, however, appear scarce.

“I do not know the name of the mountain country I have travelled over between Opotiki and Motu, but if you are wanting a name I would advise you to call it ‘Mount Magnificent’,” said the Hon. T. M. Wilford during a visit to Gisborne. “I have been in almost every country in the world, and I have seen many of the famous sights of the world, and I have seen those wonderful mountains in Spain. But in all my travels over the world I have seen nothing to equal the mountain trip between Opotiki and Motu. I have seen nothing like it. I cannot describe it. The road is not a good one, and we came through in the rain, and there were a couple of slips —rocks that had come down — that we had to move. But to compare the Buller Gorge with a view like that is like comparing the muddy banks of the Rhine with the Wanganui River. I have certainly never seen anything to equal it, and I think the view is absolutely unique.”

Though peace may be signed within the next, two or three months, it is certain (says the Melbourne “Age”) that Australia will have to raise yet another “war” or “repatriation” loan at least, in order to meet the expense of settling soldiers and restoring them to civil life. War expenditure out of loan has, of course, been reduced, and with the gradual demobilisation of men and the cessation in the use of certain sorts of munitions, the reduction is progressive. But the expense on medical services, and on the maintenance and pay of men abroad, is still heavy, and will be succeeded by expenditure on repatriation. The last war loan was a brilliant success, producing more than £40,000,000 for the exchequer. Nothing has yet been decided in regard to a further loan, but it seems probable that this will be needed by June, or thereabouts.

The widow of the late Sergeant Mervyn H. E. Gorringe, of Levin, has donated a sum of £5OO to cover the cost of a new wing for the Y.M.C.A. Institute at Rotorua. This is the outcome of a letter written to his wife by the late Sergeant Gorringe from Ypres, stating that if the worst happened and there was something to spare she might remember the Y.M.C.A. The wing is now being erected. Within will be placed an enlarged portrait of the late Sergeant Gorringe (who was a singularly handsome man, 6ft. 4in. in height), and beneath it will be placed a brass tablet on which the following lines will be engraved:—“This wing is erected as a memorial to the late Sergeant Mervyn H. E. Gorringe, of Levin, New Zealand, F. Company, of Fifth Reinforcements, son of the Rev. P. R. Gorringe, Manston Rectory, Dorset. Born Manston, Dorset, England, 14th August, 1877; killed in action, Flanders, 12th December, 1917.”