Tourist And Traveller

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1512, 17 April 1919, Page 38

Tourist And Traveller

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. J. B. Reid, of Elderslie, leaves this month on a visit to England. Mr. and Mrs. George Gould and Miss Gould, Christchurch, are visiting Rotorua. * * * * Altogether 347 Victoria Crosses were awarded during the war period. Mr. C. L. Mackersey is to replace the late Hon. A. L. D. Fraser as a member of the Hawke’s Bay Licensing Committee. • * • • Mr. E. Parry, late Chief Electrical Engineer to the Government, left last week by the Moana for England. Mr. Thomas Forlong, a Crimean veteran, of the 57th Regiment, has died at New Plymouth at the age of 86. The Tourist Department has pre sented the Wellington Zoo with four red deer and one kea. * * ♦ • Mr. J. Robison, who ’has been acting as tourist agent in Christchurch for about twelve months, has arrived in Dunedin to take charge of the local tourist office, in succession to Mr. T. Quin, who leaves for Wellington. • • • Mrs. R. J. Seddon and Miss Seddon will leave for England at an early date. They will be accompanied by Mrs. Woods, the youngest daughter of Mrs. Seddon, whose home is in Great Britain. Mr. A. M. Adams, Chief Executive Officer of the Munitions and Supplies Department, is proceeding to Australia on Government business with Mr. J. W. Collins, secretary to the Board of Trade. Captain E. J. Harvey, formerly in command of the Queen of the South, who has retired after 40 years’ service, was recently presented in Wellington with a gold watch by the older members of the staff of Messrs. Levin and Co. * * I ♦ » Mr. T. S. Brash, of the National Dairy Association, Wellington, and W. Dempster, Dairy Instructor, leave for the United States and Canada at the end of May. * * * * Mr. E. A. Reid, Government Fruit Inspector at Rarotonga, has returned to the Islands after a visit to New Zealand. « * * * Mr. J. Jamieson has been appointed the Canterbury Education Board’s delegate to the Dominion Town-plan-ning Conference. ♦ ♦ * • The Mayor of Auckland (Mr. J. H. Gunson) proposes to extend a civic reception to Brigadier-General Richardson, who is due in the northern city on April 29th. Mr. J. C. Andersen, Turnbull Librarian, Mr. Edson Best, Ethnologist, Museum, and Mr. J. W. McDonald are at Gisborne, attending a great Maori hui there and collecting phonographic and photographic records of song, speech, haka and poi dances. * « * « Mr. George Scott, who is about to leave for England, has been granted six months’ leave of absence by the Lyttelton Harbour Board. • ♦ * * Mr. V. M. Beebe has resigned his position of managing director of Crystal Palace, Limited, Christchurch, and severed all connection with that company. He proposes to take a trip to America and England shortly. • • « • Mr. H. D. M. Haszard, F.R.G.S. (well-known in the Thames district), succeeds Mr. Skinner as Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury, and has taken up residence in Christchurch. 4r At the Mount Cook (Wellington) police station a handsome presentation was made to ex Sergeant and Mrs. Woodley on the occasion of the former’s retirement from the force after 15 years’ service in order to take up farming.

Mr. Harold Beauchamp has been re-elected chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand. At Oamaru the sum of £lOOO was raised by means of a reveille for the Returned Soldiers’ Association. • * * * Mr. G. W. Hean, of Wanganui (proprietor of Heenzo), is leaving shortly on a business trip to Australia. « • * ' Sergeant-Major W. A. P. Levick, son of Mr. A. W. Levick, of Wellington, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government. He is returning to New Zealand in the course of a few months. ♦ * ♦ ♦ A Koparanga (Wairarapa) settler was fined £5 in the Magistrate’s Court at Masterton for failing to destroy rabbits on her property. * * * * During the war period, the Wellington Savage Club was responsible for contributing £1214 14s. lOd. to patriotic funds. * 5 • * A donation of £2OO from Maoris throughout New Zealand has been handed by Mrs. Pomare, on behalf of the Maori Women’s Committee, to the Auckland Patriotic Association as a contribution towards the welcome to the Pioneer Battalion. * * » Mr. Leslie Myers, eldest son of Mr J. Myers, Wellington, who left as a Cadet to join the Royal Air Force, is now on his way home again on the liner Remuera, which is expected here early in May.

Mr. Harold Moore, of Masterton, who recently returned to New Zealand after a lengthy period of active service, has left for America. * • • • Mr. P. Herbert, who for many years was chief of the Detective Department in Dunedin, is leaving on an extended tour of Australia. « • • • It is notified in the “Gazette” that the protection on rooks- has been removed in the Hawke’s Bay acclimatisation district until September 30, 1919. « « * « Several days before he died Mr. Roosevelt requested the Red Cross to give £l3BO of its share of his Nobel Peace prize to the French village near which his son Quentin is buried. * « * * At a big church service held on the Park racecourse, Gisborne, in connection with the reception to the Maori Battalion. Bishop Sedgwick paid a tribute to the Maori soldiers. At an interval in the proceedings, Sir James Allen presented Private Toi Karini with the Croix de Guerre for an act of gallantry at Ypres.

The total number of soldiers of the N.Z.E.F. returned to New Zealand to date now amounts to 41,722. « • • • Mr. W. Barrington Miller, well known in the moving picture .business in Australia, is waiting in Auckland to sail by the Niagara. ♦ * * c Captain and Mrs. Colin Gilray and Lieutenant and Mrs. Russell Standish are returning to New Zealand by the Bhamo, which is due at Auckland this month. ♦ * * * As instancing the demand for houses in Wellington, a five-roomed house at Berhampore was recently advertised as vacant. The owner received just on 200 applications from would-be tenants. Mr. W. R. Haig, for 37 years fitter in the New Zealand Railways, and 15 years in charge of the finishing bench at Addington Workshops, has been appointed instructor for the engineering classes at Wanganui Technical College. Mr. Haig retired on superannuation about a year ago. * * * * Major J. B. Hine, M.P.. is en route for New Zealand by the Devon, which left Suez on April sth. Major Hine has been lecturing to troops stationed at various towns between Suez and Damascus, in Syria and Palestine. The chief subject dealt with was the land and labour laws of New Zealand, The British soldiers were especially interested in the lectures, and large numbers expressed their intention of coming to New Zealand later on.

Captain T. M. Wilkes, M.C., has been appointed D.A.Q.M.G. for the N.Z.E.F. in France, and is attached to G.H.Q. as Liason officer for demobilisation. a • • • • Taranaki’s total annual output of butter and cheese was roughly estimated by the chairman of a meeting recently held at Hawera, to be 3000 tons to 3500 tons of butter, and from 20,000 tons to 22,000 tons of cheese. There are between 70 and 80 dairy factories in the province. • • * • Lieutenant W. H. Munn, of the United States Forces, and formerly of Dalmore, Dunedin, has received his discharge, and has accepted a position in the Westinghouse Co., Pittsburg. Mr. Munn left New Zealand some seven years ago to further his studies in electrical engineering. • * >K » Among those who are waiting in Auckland to get away by the Niagara is Mr. H. E. Troutbeck, the Hawke’s Bay sportsman. Mr. Troutbeck intends paying an extended visit to England and may be away for nearly a year.

Mr. Hurst Seager, honorary organising director of the Town-planning Conference and Exhibition, has received a cablegram from Adelaide stating that nine cases of exhibits Lave been shipped to Wellington for the Town planning Exhibition which is to be held in May. * • • • Major E. B. Gunson, R.A.M.C., brother of the Mayor of Auckland, was a passenger by the Niagara. Major Gunson has been absent from the Dominion for 15 years, and was on active service at Salonika for four years. He intends to settle in Auckland. ♦ * ♦ * British Columbia’s “salmon pack” for this year, it is reported from Ottawa, is calculated at 1,616,000,000 tins, an increase of 586,000 tins over last year’s total output. Most of the Pacific Coast production has been bought by the British Government. * * * A Visitors to Rotorua who desire to participate in the glofious sport of fishing also to partake of the healthgiving properties of the thermal waters naturally during their vacation will be pleased to learn that all the comforts of a first-class private hotel are to •be enjoyed at the Waverley Private Hotel. This hotel has been thoroughly renovated, and is now under the proprietorship of Mr. and Mrs. E. Cory. The 'Waverley is conveniently situated just outside the main railway entrance, to the right, so that visitors will experience no unnecessary delay in locating their hotel. This up-to-date establishment

possesses all the comforts of a firstclass hotel, and Mr. and Mrs. Cory are well-known for their hospitality. They are exceedingly kind and courteous to visitors, sparing no pains to make the stay of their guests a pleasant one. The furnishings of the Waverley are very cosy and inviting, electric light being fitted up, while the appointments of the diningroom are excellent. This department is under the personal supervision of Mrs. Cory, assisted by a well-trained staff. The bedrooms are exceedingly comfortable, and no effort has been spared to cater thoroughly for the requirements of guests. The Waverley is conveniently situated to the various baths, while porters meet all trains. Cook’s coupons are accepted, and accommodation should be secured by correspondence or telegrams. There is no doubt that the Waverley Hotel affords all the comforts of a real home away from home,' and ranks as one of the most comfortable and attractive private hotels in Rotorua. On the opposite page appears a reproduction of the Waverley Private Hotel, which affords a good idea of the ideal nature of this popular house.

Mr. P. J. Richards, chief officer of the steamer Toromeo, which arrived at Wellington the other day from New York, underwent a terrible ordeal in the Atlantic last December when the British auxiliary steamer Scotia Queen, of which he was master, opened up in heavy weather. The vessel was gutted by heavy seas, and the boats were smashed. The captain and crew hung on to the main gaff, which had broken adrift, but was held to the sinking schooner by the running gear. The crew were in the water practically for eighteen hours in midwinter until rescued by the cargo steamer Gulfland. The master of the latter vessel had to pump oil into the sea all round the schooner before he risked lowering a life-boat. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal for. his action in saving the crew of the schooner.