TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1520, 12 June 1919, Page 38

TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

The Governor-General the Bari of Liverpool and the Countess of Liverpool, who are to pay a visit to Samoa and the Cook group, left Wellington by the Moana, and will make their first landing at Rarotonga. The Tutanekai (Captain Post) will await them there, and take them round the islands. Their Excellencies, who are accompanied by the Hon. Dr. Pomare (Minister for the Cook Group) and Mrs. Pomare, Lieutenant Garland, M.C.. and Lieutenant Milton, A.D.C.’s, and Mr. G. F. Dixon, official reporter, expect to be absent from Wellington for about six weeks. * » • • The Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, M.P. for Ellesmere, is expected to leave England in the course of a few days for New Zealand. • » « • Major J. B. Hine, M.P. for Stratford, returned to New Zealand last week. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar-Jones and Miss M. Edgar-Jones, Timaru, are leaving for Los Angeles. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. D. Blyth. of Wanganui, have left on a four months’ tour of Canada and the United States. * » * Mrs. W. Turnbull, Wellington, left by the lonic last week on a visit to England. « • • • Major David Gibbs. D. 5.0., of the engineer’s department of the Wellington Harbour Board, returned to New Zealand last week after over four years’ war experience. Dr. Thacker is the first graduate of Canterbury College to become Mayor of Christchurch, and also the first “old boy” of Christchurch Boys’ High School to attain that position. M * * * Mr. B. L. Salmon has been elected secretary of the New Zealand Football Association for the fourteenth year in succession. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest H. Davis, Auckland, leave this week by the Niagara on a two months visit to Honolulu. » » - » Mr. H. D. Forsyth, managing director of the Eltham Dairy Company, left by the Moana en route for America and Europe. He was accompanied by Mrs. Forsyth. Mr. W. Thomas, of the Dominion Laboratory staff, has been granted six months’ leave of absence, and left for London by the lonic on a business and pleasure trip. * • * « Lieutenant R. Liddlelow, a returned soldier, was appointed secretary to the Victorian Electrical Commissioners, out of 109 applications. The position carries a salary of £450 per annum. Lieutenant Liddlelow was for some time in the employ of the Consolidated Goldfields, Reefton, before leaving for the front.

Mr. and Mrs. Studholme (Ruanui) are leaving very shortly on a visit to England. They intend returning before the end of the year.

The senior assistant at the Christchurch Technical College, Mr. W. G. Aldridge, has been appointed director of the Southland Technical College, out of 20 applicants.

Brigadier-General H. W. Grimwade, who has seen active service with the Australian Forces, was a through passenger by the Niagara, accompanied by his wife and family.

Mr. F. G. Matthews, private secretary to the Minister for Defence, has been granted the honorary rank of captain while so employed. Captain Matthews recently returned from active service.

Capping ceremonies at Canterbury College will be resumed this year, the the students have been given permission to have their procession through the streets of the city on June 20.

A deputation from the Franklin Agricultural Society is to wait on the Prime Minister on his return to New Zealand with a request that, an experimental farm be established in the Lower Waikato district.

Mr. F. Pirani, in the course of an address at Hastings, referred to the excellent work of the Shakespeare Hut in England. In this connection the highest possible praise was due to Miss Ballantyne, of Hawera, and Mrs. Mac Hugh, of Auckland, who parolled the streets of London last thing at night and raked in all “diggers” to the hut. During all their work these ladies had never been made the butt of abuse of any description from any of the New Zealanders.

The official return of casualties in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force for the whole period of the war shows a total of 16,661 dead and 41,317 wounded.

Free passes for six months on the Wellington trams are to be given to returned, soldiers who have lost legs during the war. The City Council gave this concession on the application of the 'Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association.

Corporal Dick Harris, formerly well known in press circles in Wellington and Christchurch, returned from England by the transport Rimutaka. He was with the N.Z.E.F. in France from Messines up till just before the retaking of Bapaume (when he was on leave), and was slightly wounded as the result of a shell explosion.

Second-Lieutenant Gordon T. Dawson, who has been absent on active service for the past four years and a-half, has now returned to Dunedin, and is resuming his old position on the local staff of the South British Insurance Company, Limited.

Mr. C. H. Howarth, consulting engineer, of Wellington, and an artist of repute, left for England and America by the lonic, accompanied by Mrs. Howarth. It is his intention to give exhibitions of his paintings of New Zealand scenery (chiefly scenes of the Mt. Cook district, the Wanganui River and the thermal regions) in London and New York.

“Remember, a good boxer makes a good soldier. I have never known a good boxer who has not been a good soldier.” —Major Sweetzer at the presentation of prizes after the boxing tournament at Trentham Camp. j ® ;

Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Le Lievre, “Oinako,” Akaroa, and their four daughters leave by the Paparoa on June 16th on an extended tour of England and the Continent. They expect to be away about two years.

Mr. William Cable, a member of the Wellington Harbour Board, Mrs. and Miss Cable and Miss Hunter left on a trip to America and England by the Moana. Mr. Cable is proceeding abroad on business, and is likely to be away over six months.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Manson, Palmerston North, accompanied by Miss Manson and Miss A. Palliser, joined the Niagara at Auckland. Mrs. and Miss Manson and Miss Palliser will spend the winter at Honolulu, while Mr. Manson makes a business visit to the United States and England.

“The membership of the association is only 25,000 to 30,000,” said Mr. W. B. McCallum, at a sitting of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association in Christchurch. “Those figures may not appear large, but there are large numbers of men coming back to New Zealand and there is a leakage somewhere. The returned men should be made fully cognisant of the workings of the association.”

Having found that there was a necessity to define the term “returned soldier,” the Dominion Conference of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association decided, on the recommendation of Its Legal Committee, to adopt the following definition: “‘Returned soldier’ shall mean those persons who have served in or with His Majesty’s Forces oversea during war, and have been honourably discharged or are awaiting honourable discharge.”

The two gold medals presented by Messrs. A. and G. Price., Ltd., engineers, Thames, for the best essays on “How New Zealand Manufacturers Can Best Help Our Returned Soldiers,” from any boy or girl attending any college or school in New Zealand have been awarded to the following:—Girls: Winnie Catherwood, Featherston; boys: Ralph Wilson. Taupaki. ft * ft • Amongst prominent guests staying at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, last week were Sir Timothy and Lady Coghlan, Brigadier-General H. W. Grimwade (Australia), Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sargood (Melbourne), Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Stead, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hewitt (Hastings). Mr. and Mrs. J W. Woodhouse, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. C. Rutherford, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Rutherford, Mr. and Mrs. E. Rutherford (Canterbury), Major A. De B. Brandon, D. 5.0.. (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. Justice Hosking (Wellington), Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Riddell (Hawke’s Bay), Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. de Latour, Mr and Mrs. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Sherratt, (Gisborne).

The rearing of pheasants on Quail Island (Lyttelton) was attempted last season. There are no natural enemies of the birds on the island, and food and cover are plentiful. Ten pheasants were hatched out, but all except one cock were poisoned. The blame, it was stated at the meeting of the Acclimatisation Society, rested upon the German prisoners. The society is taking steps to obtain five hen pheasants, and will support another effort to raise pheasants on Quail Island.