TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1529, 14 August 1919, Page 36

TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE. Mr. and Mrs. Theomin, Dunedin, have returned from England. • n • ® Mr. H. Onane, Christchurch, has returned after a visit to San Francisco. Dr. Hugh Steele, of Wellington, returned by the Ruapehu, after an absence of about fifteen months. Mr. H. G. Warren, of Napier, leaves by the Shropshire this month on a business trip to England. » • • • Mr. J. J. Batchelor, Wellington, has been appointed manager of the Christchurch Club. * « • • Lieutenant - Colonel S. S. Allen, D.S.O. and bar, has been made a Companion of St. Michael and St. George. * * ▼ • • The Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association has a membership of 9442. * * • • Mr. and Mrs. Hurst Seager, Wellington, are leaving for England by the Shropshire. 9 • w V Mr. C. Buckland, of Cambridge, is leaving with his family to reside in Canada. « « • • Mr. and Mrs. Wi'fred Stead. Hawke’s Bay, left for Sydney by the Niagara after spending a few days in Auckland at the Grand Hotel. 9 9 • • Dr. H. Dean Bamford and Mrs. Bamford, Auckland, returned last week from a trip to Canada and the United States. Lieutenant Frank Tasker, son of Mr. A. E. Tasker, of Nelson, has returned to New Zealand from active service. He was in the Flying Corps • • • » Mr. Herbert J. Thompson, of Wellington, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Penny, of Dannevirke, will leave for America by the next trip of the Makura. * * * Lieut.-Colonel J. Fisher, who has been on service in Rajputana. India, for some years, intends to settle in New Zealand. » • » . » It was mentioned in the Arbitration Court at Wellington that suiting cloth which in 1914 cost Bs. 6d. per yard now cost 355. sir 9 » » Lieutenant-Colonel W. Marsha 1 ! Macdonald and Mrs. Macdonald have returned to Dunedin from England after arduous work during the war years. * 9 » * Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Warnes, of Tonioana, Hawke’s Bay, left for England by the Shropshire on a short visit. Captain H. Peacock, of the Auckland district staff, has gone to Paeroa to take over the command of No. 2 group. Lord Jellicoe has consented to lay the foundation stone for the new soldiers’ club at Christchurch when he visits that city. Mr. K. S. Pender, of Wellington, returned by the Moana after having spent four months at the aeroplane flying training camp at Deseronto. near Toronto, Canada. Messrs. J. M. Gibson and S. D. Paterson, Wanganui, are making an extensive business dour through the United States and the United Kingdom. 9 e • • Mr. E. E. Luttrell, who has acted as honorary secretary to the Canterbury Cricket Association during the war period, was the recipient of a silver tea and coffee service from the members of the association at a special meeting.

Mr. Arthur Reginald Dyer was recently appointed chief officer of the London Fire Brigade, salary £llOO, rising to £l5OO. 0 9 * • Mr. J. B. Clarkson, the well-known New Zealand motorist, returned by the Niagara after an absence of eight months, in which he travelled extensively in Britain, France, and Italy. 9 9 0 • At the last meeting of the Canterbury Land Board a property owner offered to accept £3OO less for his property than a returned soldier had offered to give for it. 0 0 9 • The death recently occurred at Cardiff, Wales, of Private G. Hutchinson, Royal Defence Corps, electrician in the Lusitania when she was sunk. M 9 • V Mr. E. G. Bates, a retired builder, of Croydon, has given £3OOO to provide small pensions for the deserving blind of the town. Although Dover Council think the Channel Tunnel may not help the town, they have voted in favour of it as a benefit to the nation.

Air. David Manson, inspector for the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, has returned from a business trip to Japan, the United States, and Great Britain. ♦ • 0 0 The shooting season which closed on July 31 has been a very successful one in the Te Kuiti portion of the King Country. Quail were very plentiful. « • • • Air. W. G. de Gruchy has arrived from New York to take up the position as assistant manager of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line’s head office at Wellington. He is accompanied by his wife and family. 9 * Ci 9 Lieutenant G. W. Brandon, son of Mr. A. de B. Brandon, of Wellington, was among those who returned to New Zealand by the Briton. He belonged to the Royal Air Force. * 0 ♦ ♦ Mr. S. J. Parsonson, who returned by the Ruahine after three years’ service as a Y.M.C.A. field secretary with the New Zealand Forces, is to resume charge of the work of the association at Masterton.

Messrs. R. G. and A. Hudson, of Hudsons, Ltd., who have been on a six months’ business visit to America and England, are returning by the Athenic, due at Wellington about August 23. Five sons of Airs. Madgwick, Haslemere, Surrey, Eng., have the Mons Ribbon and 1914 Star, two others have the 1914 Star, and the eighth was in the Navy. Mr. George Fenwick, managing director of the “Otago Daily Times” and “Witness” Company, has received a cable message from Mr. Lloyd George informing him that the King has conferred a knighthood on him. 9 9.9 • William James Carroll, a native of Canada, an inmate of the Old People’s Home, Napier, recently celebrated his hundredth birthday. He has been a moderate drinker and a smoker all his life. ♦ * * * Mrs. Botha launched at Greenock, Scotland, the 29-knots light cruiser Durban. The Malcolm, a 40-knot flotilla leader, was launched at Birkenhead (Eng.).

The number of German civil prisoners repatriated up to May 22 last was 23,073, states Sir Hamar Greenwood, and the number interned on May 23 was 3634. * • * * The residents of Coutts Island, Kaiapoi, have erected a handsome stone pillar as a memorial to the five soldiers from the island who made the supreme sacrifice in the great war. oa* » • Captain A. Sullivan, of the Australian Infantry Forces, who saw service on Gallipoli and in Egypt and France, is visiting New Zealand, and intends proceeding to Rotorua, where he will undergo treatment for ailments contracted during the war. Captain Alex. Taylor, formerly lecturer in veterinary science at Lincoln College, who left for the front soon after the outbreak of war, has just completed a three months’ course at the Veterinary College, Edinburgh, and has been successful in obtaining the Fellowship and the advanced degree of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

Air. H. Buckleton, the newly-ap-pointed general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, was entertained at a dinner by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Al. M. AlcCallum, who presided, paid a glowing tribute to Mr. Buckleton’s worth as a banker and a citizen, and highly eulogistic speeches were also made by the Hon. George Fowlds and Mr. C. F. Thomas. Mr. A. P. Green, Mr. Buckleton’s successor to the Auckland branch, who was present, received a very cordial welcome. A pleasant ceremony took place at the head office of the Alarine and Inspection Department in Wellington, when Mr. William Douglas, senior surveyor of ships, was presented by the engineer and deck surveyors with a suitably inscribed silver entree dish on the occasion of his marriage. * » « Free passes on the tramway-cars are to be given to all crippled or blind soldiers and sailors by Nottingham City Corporation (Eng.). The passes will be granted annually and will bear the photograph of the holder.

A movement is on foot to suitably recognise the war services of Mr. H. Alpe, who, during the war period, walked 1000 miles in aid of patriotic funds and realised £lOOO for them. Mr. Alpe is an old soldier, and the fact that the pedestrian record mentioned was done by a man over fifty years of age, is noteworthy. 0 0 0 0 Mr. H. Barclay, formerly of Temuka, is on a visit to the Dominion after several years’ absence in Africa. Air. Barclay, who served with the New Zealand forces in the South African campaign, is now farming near Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State. « O 9 9 Referring to the coming session the Prime Minister, during his short stay in Auckland, said he intended to meet Parliament as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made. The session was not likely to be a long one. but some imporant business would require to be done. Parliament would be given an opportunity of expressing its approval of the peace treaty.

On his retirement from the Department after 42 years’ continuous service, the officers of the Lands and Survey Department made a presentation of a Morris chair and artist’s requisites to Mr. A. L. Haylock in order to show the esteem in which he has been held by all. » * * » “To carry out a vigorous policy of reconstruction and development in a time like the present, there must be a strong Government,” said the Hon. W. F. Massey in Auckland. “There must be a Government that will place the interests of the country before party and every other consideration.” •.• * ■ “The work of the Peace Conference,” said Sir Joseph Ward in Auckland, “was a task of unprecedented magnitude, the decisions arrived at affecting directly or indirectly every part of the globe, and the effect of the final decisions will last, so far as the main principles are concerned, for ages, unless in the unknown future they are upset or reversed by another Armageddon.” A rather shabby, dilapidated-look-ing yacht, flying the Armistice flag, recently arrived at Tilbury Dock, England, having been towed up the river by three tugs. She was none other than the ex-Kaiser’s yacht Meteor. Glasgow Corporation Tramways has had a record year. The revenue from fares totalled fully £1,500,000, an increase of £123,000 over that of 191718, while the number of passengers increased by over 33,000,000; 60 per cent, of the total came from halfpenny fares. The San Fernando, 18,000 tons, the largest oil tank steamship, was recently launched at Newcastle by Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. * * * » Benny Leonard, the lightweight champion boxer of the world, has decided to retire from the ring next year. He is reputed to be worth £50,000, mostly made out of a motor tyre business. A tank has been presented to Birmingham, in recognition of the generous spirit in which the citizens have responded to the appeal for war funds. More than 16 million pounds were raised during three weeks. a e • • The fastest vessel in existence is the British destroyer Turquoise, which, according to her trial figures, published by the “Engineer,” reached in deep water the astonishing speed of 39.6 knots, or miles. e * «• • A surrendered German submarine testing dock recently arrived at Harwich, England, towed by 7 tugs, 5 of them German. The dock is over 300 ft. long and is fitted with a huge cylinder and caisson designed for testing new U-boats. It was moored in U-boat Avenue, in the Stour.

Aidershot recently entertained over 700 men of the town who have served in the war, and presented each of them with a souvenir thanking him for his services. A similar number of men will be entertained when they are demobilised. The death has occurred at Folkestone, England, at the age of 87, of Captain William Alexander Kerr, an Indian Mutiny veteran, who won the V.C. on July 10, 1857, for a particularly gallant attack on a position taken up by a band of mutineers of the 27th Bombay Infantry in a fort near the town of Kholapore. Mr. ‘R. L. (“Snowy”) Baker’s flat, “Cromley,” Woolcott Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, was last month entered by- burglars early in the morning. Articles valued at £lOO were stolen. They included gold souvenirs given to Mr. Baker by moving picture stars when he was in America, and a valuable fur coat belonging to Mrs.. Baker. Speaking at the Lord Mayor’s Peace banquet at the Town Hall, Sydney, the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson), in proposing the toast of “The Day,” said we may well spare one moment to do homage to the foresight and statesmanship of the founders of the Commonwealth. That historic landing began an epoch in Australian history, and that other and more famous landing on Anzac Beach began another. The courage and initiative of the early navigator and pioneer has been capped and surpassed by that • of their Anzac descendants. True, the Turk and his German guns barred the way more effectively than the aboriginal with his native weapon, but the Turk in his iron vastness became the anvil on which the raw troops of Australia were hammered into the fine, disciplined army which swept the enemy before it at Pozieres, Arras, and Peronne. (Applause.) That original little boatful of adventurers showed our people how to go in and possess the land of promise. The men of Anzac have shown how that land can be defended. Especially do we honour the fallen, those who tasted the bitterness of war and never heard of victory. And for our consolation let. us remember that though the war has bereft the Empire of hundreds of thousands of her sons, it has given her immortal heroes in their stead.