Tourist And Traveller

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1530, 21 August 1919, Page 36

Tourist And Traveller

HERE AND THERE. Captain and Mrs. Hall-Thompson and their son and daughter left for England by the Ruahine last week. * «■ ’ • Mr. and Mrs. Lindo Levien, Wellington, and family have left on a trip to England. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the great steelmaster and philanthropist, died at Lenox, Massachusetts, from bronchial pneumonia on August 11, after a brief illness. The King has conferred on Mr. Lloyd George the Order of Merit, the most restricted an exclusive of all modern orders. * ♦ ♦ ♦ Mr. T. S. Young, Dunedin manager of the New Zealand Express Company, has been transferred to the position of Christchurch manager of the company. Dr. D. L. Freeman, of the staff of the Christchurch Technical College, has been appointed an instructor of agriculture under the Auckland Education Board. Dr. Rusk, an English international bowler, is on a health recruiting visit to New Zealand aftet seeing service at the front. * * * * Lieutenant Harold Astwell, of Kalgoorlie, who has just been demobilised after four years of service with the Australian Infantry Forces, is making a tour of New Zealand. Mr. Jackson Palmer, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, died in Wellington last Wednesday of lethargic encephalitis. Mr. Palmer was born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1867. Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, chief health officer, who has received six months’ leave of absence, left for Sydney by the Prinzessin. Mr. J. Neale, traffic manager at Wellington for the Union Company, left by the Talune for a trip around the Islands, accompanied by Mrs. Neale. Lieutenant S. Frickleton, V.C., has been appointed to the charge of the Defence Office at Westport. * • • • Mr. David Manson, inspector for. the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, has returned from a business trip to Japan, the United States, and Great Britain. Mr. P. J. Vugler, who has been acting as assistant clerk of court at Gisborne, is leaving the public service to take up farming at Waihi. The New Plymouth Borough Council has decided to take steps to raise a loan of £lO,OOO for the erection of houses for employees. Owing to the serious fires on the North Yorkshire moors, thousands of young grouse have been destroyed, and the outlook for the coming shooting season is very black. » • • • It is announced that LieutenantColonel (temporary colonel) J. E. Hume, R.N.Z.A., who has been in illhealth recently and who lately commanded the Wellington military district, has retired. • * • • References to the death of one of its former members, Sergeant W. McLean, who was killed in a railway accident in America, were made at the last meeting of the Linwood Orchestra, and a vote of condolence with his bereaved parents was passed in silence. At the time of his death Sergeant McLean, who was a brilliant clarinetist, was deputy conductor of one of the largest artillery bands in America, and he had just returned from the war.

At a social gathering in Wellington at the Civil Service Club, Mr. F. Hiddlestone, the well-known cricket player, was made a presentation of an attache case prior to his departure for England. Mr. C. G. Wilson occupied the chair, and made eulogistic references to the interest Mr. Hiddlestone had displayed in the game. a • * A pleasing function took place on the return trip of the Wanganui rep. hockey team from the Waikato, where the Norden Cup was contested. On behalf of the team, Mr. Boyd, the captain, presented Mr. K. Mullins with a handsome silver-mounted pipe as a token of appreciation for the work he had done as manager of the team. » • ■ • A recent message from Tokyo states that construction of three fast passenger steamers to be placed on the American run has been decided upon by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ships will have a speed of 20 knots and a gross tonnage of 20,000. The first of the boats will probably be built in England, the remaining two, 'ater, in Japan.

A pair of Evantail jardinieres at Christie’s, London, realised £2047 10s.; an Adam satin-wood commode and a pair of vases painted with pastoral scenes £682 10s. * * « * The King has awarded the silver,., medal for gallantry in saving life at sea to Lieut. Ross P. Whitemarsh, U.S. Navy. A boat in which he and 20 others had left a torpedoed ship ran into a cyclone, and he remained at the tiller all night through the storm. The others lay in the bottom of the boat and took turns in holding on to his legs to prevent him from being carried away. They were picked up after 10 days of terrible privation. M • • Speaking at the civic welcome in Wellington, the Prime Minister . (the Hon. W. F. Massey) emphasised that the name of New Zealand stood high among all the nations of the world. Of that he had had plenty of proof. He would refer to one incident. When the conference was waiting for the signature of the Treaty, knowing that he would have to leave hurriedly as soon as the signing was over, he took the opportunity of bidding goodbye to friends he had made, among them the president of the conference, M. Clemenceau, Premier of France. M. Clemenceau said as he was taking leave: “I want to thank you on behalf

of France for the assistance of your brave men. France will never forget.” 9 » • “If statistics are referred to it will be found that the risks of a miner’s life are not to be compared with those of the ordinary merchant seaman,” said Admiral Fremantle, speaking in London recently. “High fares are not only injuring the health of the nation, but also handicapping its commerce,” declared Mr. H. Bottomley, M.P., at a meeting of the National Association of Railway Travellers in London. They must say once for all they would not stand any more inefficiency and unfair treatment. Mr. C. F. Higham, M.P., who presided, said that 120 members of Parliament were to demand that the 50 per cent, war tax on fares should be taken off at once. * * • • Considerable publicity was given, to the thorough organisation and quick despatch of over two million American troops to France following America’s entry into the war, but little is heard of the efficient arrangements which were made for their

speedy return home after the termination of hostilities. Some idea of the rapid despatch homeward of the Americans is gained when it is mentioned that during one week fifty-six ships carrying 98,449 American troops reached home ports. Of this number 54,789 men were disembarked at New York, the balance going to Newport News, Philadelphia, Boston, Charleston and Baltimore. • 9 V * Speaking at the Millions Club in Sydney, Sir Harry Lauder asked if it did not tingle every nerve in their bodies to know that they were sons of the British Empire. (Applause.) They did not fight for glory, but for victory, and they got it. The British Army was the greatest among the Allies. They had 8% million men, yet they gave up their command to Foch. They followed Foch, fought with him, and shared the victory with him. (Applause.) Now they must think about clearing off their debts. If Scotland was half as big as New South Wales they would clear off their debts in a couple of years. (Laughter.) Yes, they would; and they would do it by work! That was the only way Australia could clear off her burden. He hoped if his fellowScotsmen came in numbers to Australia they would not join the strikers. A Voice: That is our national pastime!

Mr. W. McCullough, proprietor of the Thames “Star,” has retired from the position of Grand Master of Scottish Freemasonry in the North Island, after over half a century’s service. In appreciation of his long and valuable services, he was presented at Auckland with a salver and a silver tea and coffee service by the members of the craft. His successor is Mr. W. Handley. » • • • “I am quite satisfied that in New Zealand conscription is not necessary and should not be continued,” said Sir Joseph Ward to a “Dominion” reporter. “There could be no justification for its continuance except for the purpose of enabling us to fight for the freedom of the Empire of which we are a part. In saying that I am quite satisfied that it is necessary to train the youth of the country and pass them on to a defence reserve, without anything in the nature of a standing army or the nucleus of a standing army. I. have not had an opportunity of reading or examining what has been proposed in this country, but my own view is that we do not require to continue a system of anything approaching the nucleus of

a standing army. The training of youths in order to enable them to be 'fit for the defence of their hearths and homes is quite a different matter from the maintenance of anything In the nature of a trained army.” ♦ • 9 « “We have our troubles here,” said Sir Joseph Ward at the civic reception in Wellington. “Supposing, for a moment, that it were possible for any huge river you may know to be blocked at the mouth for a period of four years, or four and a-half years. If such a thing were possible, would it be unnatural in the meantime for new tributaries to have broken out? In this country we have had all our peace conditions blocked up for four and a-half years. Does anyone believe that in these circumstances it was to be expected that tributaries of the river—industrially, commercially, and socially—would not have broken out in parts?” Our duty, he urged, was clearly to exercise our free and independent rights and our judgment to the full, and see that no section rule against the laws of this country interfered with the on-ward movement of the people to the new era. The Peace Conference was really the beginning of the new era, in which New Zealand would not only take its part, but in which, if it lived up to its past, it would be in the forefront.

“We here at home,” said Sir Ronald Ferguson, Governor-General of Australia, speaking at the great Peace banquet in Sydney last month, “have passed through dark days and trying times of uncertainty; but suspense, grief, and trial have been borne throughout with splendid composure, and it was not until the announcement of the Armistice broke down the nation’s reserve that we saw by the wild enthusiasm, the laughter, the tears, and the crowding of our churches, how great had been the strain, how intense the anxiety. The French soldiers used to say during the darkest moments of the war, ‘All is well so long, as the civilian holds out.’ There never was any doubt that the civil population of Australia would hold out, and I have been proud to represent His Majesty at such a time and among such a steady, undaunted people.”

At a meeting of the International Council of Women at Piccadilly, London, Miss E. C. van Dorp, a Netherlands representative, herself a solicitor and barrister, said she had been happier since giving up practice. Further, although many people went to a woman solicitor for advice, her experience showed that they all liked a man barrister to 'fight their case.