Tourist AND Traveller

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1522, 26 June 1919, Page 36

Tourist AND Traveller

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. and Mrs. Cornfoot, Feilding, are leaving on a visit to Vancouver. Mr. and Mrs. John Hessev, Masterton, are making a trip to England Commander J. T. Rolls, who has been ashore at Sydney on holiday leave, rejoined the Niagara at Auckland. • • ft • Captain Victor Gallie, Croix de Guerre, M.C., R.F.A., of Wellington, is returning by the transport Kigoma, due about July 12. a * ft • Mr. J. B. Henry, who has been 12 years manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Masterton. has been promoted to the position of inspector. * ft s ft Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson, Remuera, and their two children leave by the Niagara for California, where they intend settling. Colonel C. M. Gibbon, C.M.G., 1.G.5., who is vacating the post of chief of the general staff, left for England by the Remuera last Friday.

Mr. W. H. Barton has been appointed secretary of the Napier Returned Soldiers’ Association and the Soldiers’ Club conjointly.

Speaking in Hastings, General Russell stated he had got marching orders from the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces and was now “just a Hawke’s Bay man.”

“If the price of clothing advances much more we will have to wear a suit of blue paint,” said Mr. F. V. Frazer. S.M., during the hearing of a case in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington.

An Australian Club has been formed in Wellington to foster the spirit of good fellowship between Australians and New Zealanders.

Mr. Charles Hill, senr., of Wellington, president of Te Hiwi Bowling Club, celebrated his 87th birthday last week, and was the recipient of many congratulations. Mr. Hill is still a keen bowler, and enjoys a game on the green.

Mr. N. T.- Gray, a visitor from the Straits Settlement, who has been engaged in trout-fishing and other sport in New Zealand foi' some months past, left for England, via Panama, on Tuesday.

Commander Hooper, of the training ship Amokura, left by the Arawa for England, where he will undertake the selection of a training ship to replace the Amokura. ft ft * A two-year-old stag, a cross between the Warnham Park and Scottish deer, is being obtained by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society from the Dunedin Acclimatisation Society. The stag will be placed on the game farm at Paraparaumu. « ft ft « “Your directors record with deep regret,” states the annual report of the Wellington Bowling Club, “the death of six members of the club during the year: Messrs. W. Simm, senr., J. Russell, J. Malcolm, H. A. McKenzie, A. Barron and A. Lindsay. Included amongst these are three of the oldest members of the club, who have rendered valuable services in past years.”

Captain F. W. Moor, D.C.M., New Zealand Medical Corps, who left with the Main Body and recently returned by the s.s. Paparoa, has been appointed quartermaster to the Military Hospital at Auckland.

The Government has purchased from the estate of the late Mr. D. Buick, Palmerston North, 274 acres at £BB per acre. This will be cut up into five-acre sections for soldiers who work in town. The Govern ment has also bought 391 acres at the same price. This land will be divided into 30-acre farms.

A presentation was made by the staff of the Queen’s Theatre, Christchurch, to Mr. J. A. Frost, who is severing his connection with the theatre. Mr. Quinn, his successor as manager, presented Mr. Frost with a silver entree set on behalf of the staff. Mr. Frost has been manager of the Queen’s since it was opened, about seven years ago, and during that time his dealings with the staff were always of the most cordial nature.

Surgeon-Major W. C. Hartgill, M.C., left by the Devon on his return to England, where he rejoins the British Army. During the past three months he has been spending a we'.learned furlough at Dannevirke.

Mr. S. Hurst Seager, organising director of town-planning in New Zealand, intends to leave Christchurch about July 22 for a 12 months’ visit to England and, if possible, America to study developments in town-planning since his last visit to to those countries. At the head office of John’ Mill and Co., Ltd., Port Chalmers, Mr. John Mill, governing director of the company, was presented by the directors of the company with a travelling bag on the eve of his departure for England on an extended trip with Mrs. Mill and his two daughters. Mr. T. Rimmer, who has been one of the foremost members of the Foxton Bowling Club, was entertained at a social gathering and presented with a case of pipes. Mr. Rimmer intends leaving the district to take up farming at Tauranga.

Mr. William Roy McKean has been appointed a stipendiary magistrate and a warden, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. E. Rawson, S.M. Mr. McKean has been for the last 12 years in practice at Clyde, Central Otago, and is an expert in mining laws.

A presentation was made at Taumarunui to Mr. Patrick Gavin, who, after nearly 20 years’ residence in the district, is going to Te Arolia. The Mayor (Mr. G. S. Steadman), who presided at the gathering, presented Mr. Gavin with a gold watch as a token of esteem.

Captain H. Clayden, master of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s liner Arawa, has been appointee! Marine Superintendent for the South Island for that company, in succession to the late Captain McDougall. Captain Clayden, who has had command of the Arawa for some time, will be succeeded by Captain R. S. Lewis, of the Pakeha, and Mr. Hartman, chief officer of the Arawa, will take command of the Pakeha.

Reference to the college’s fine reford of war service was made at the capping ceremony of the Victoria College, Wellington, by General Richardson. He said the college had sent 637 students on service, and of these 108 had lost their lives. The soldiers from the college had gained one C.M.G., one D.C.M., five D.S.O.’s, 19 M.C.’s, three M.M.’s, and one foreign decoration.

The death occurred at Levin of Major John Liddle, aged 86, one of the few remaining Crimean veterans. He served 'with the Royal Scots Greys in the charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava, also at Inkerman and the Siege of Sebastopol. He was decorated in the field for distinguished conduct, and also held the Crimean Medal with three clasps, and the Turkish Medal. At last meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, Mr. D. G. Braik’s resignation as draughtsman was accepted. Mr. Braik leaves shortly for the United States to take a course of study in architecture. The board expressed appreciation of his services and wished him a successful sojourn in America.

Sergeant Charles Kelly, who lias been promoted senior sergeant and transferred to the Mt. Cook Police Station, Wellington, was farewelled in the Blenheim Courthouse by a gathering representative of the magistracy, the course officers and the police force. Mr. P. L. Rollings, S.M., tendered to Sergeant Kelly hearty congratulations on his promotion, and handed him a presentation (a brief bag, set of military hairbrushes and a fountain pen) as a mark of esteem.

Mr. Joseph John Hutcheson Everitt, one of the oldest compositors in New Zealand, died in Wellington recently at the age of 82 years. Over 40 years ago he came from Queensland to Wellington,and obtained employment in the “New Zealand Times” office. He then entered the newsroom of the “Evening Argus” (Wellington), and afterwards he secured a berth in the Government Printing Office, remaining in the service of the State until his retirement some years ago.

The Prince of Wales has been appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the 12th (Prince of Wales’ Royal) Lancers and the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and Honorary Colonel of the sth (Prince of Wales’) Battalion (Territorial) Devon Regiment, and 15th (County of London) Battalion the London Regiment.

When in Wellington, Mr. Albert Goldie, after discanting on the beauties and up-to-dateness of Los Angeles, was asked how the cost of living there compared with what it is in New Zealand. Mr. Goldie said as a family man he was interested in the question, and as far as he could judge home living in Los Angeles was about a third cheaper than in New Zealand. The hotel life in America was expensive, but the home life not at all so. The only thing that was dearer in Los Angeles was meat.

The Wellington citizens’ memorial to the late Lieutenant F. B. Crouch, formerly of Kilbirnie, who was killed in action on the western front in March, 1918, is, on the suggestion of the Mayor, to take the form of “a scholarship for the education of some young men, who, like Lieutenant Crouch, did not begin life in favourable circumstances.” On the outbreak of war the late Lieutenant Crouch was employed in the Railway Department, and early in 1915 he went Home to settle certain private business affairs. He afterwards enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, and soon proceeded to France. He was killed in action on March 23, 1918, during the opening days of the German offensive. He bequeathed the whole of his estate, valued at about £lOOO, to the Wellington War Relief Association, for the benefit of soldiers and their dependents.

The returned soldier, Mr. Reginald William Dancey, who was found dead in his house, St. Clair, Dunedin, came to the Dominion some seven years ago from London, where his father, a doctor of music, is the organist in one of the leading churches. At the outbreak of war deceased was employed by Messrs.

Sargood, Son, and Ewen, and left New Zealand with the Main Body as a gunner. He was gassed in France, where he gained his lieutenancy. He returned to New Zealand about seven months ago, and joined the staff of Messrs. Butterworth Bros. From the time of his arrival in New Zealand he was a member of St. Matthew’s choir, Dunedin, and he was also secretary of the Choral Society.

Several hundred people who had bought tickets for a matinee at the Holborn Empire, London, in aid of “Limbless Soldiers and Sailors of the Great War” were hoaxed. The tickets were stated to be available for one of four performances, and prices ranged from Is. to 2s. 6d. The first intimation the management had was the assembling of a crowd with tickets for one of the performances. The victims accepted the situation philosophically and with a good deal of humour. Some had bought tickets on April 1 and were not forgetful of the fact.

The pheasants which have been hand-reared at Waikanae are slowly increasing, and are so quiet that sportsmen find no sport in shooting them (remarks the Otaki correspondent of the “Manawatu Standard”). There are a few, however, who would shoot anything, and in • view of this it was hoped to form a sanctuary. If left alone for a couple of years there is no doubt the pheasants would quickly increase, and with a view of having them in numbers Mr. Field, who has taken great interest in the birds, desires their protection for the time being. Mr. Field’s lake sanctuary for water-fowl has been a great success, and no doubt it would be a good thing to have a protected breeding place in the district for game generally. It is on the tapis that a breeding place for pheasants will be located either at Waikanae, Otaki, or Levin, the old game farm behind the hills at Paraparamu being quite unsuitable for the purpose.