Tourist AND Traveller

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1532, 4 September 1919, Page 36

Tourist AND Traveller

HERE AND THERE. The Melbourne “Age” reports that the Prince of Wales will visit Australia in May, 1920, and will stay two months. * * » « A Gazette announces that the salmon fishing season will be from October 1 to April 1 next.

Dr. and Mrs. W. Hislop have returned to Wellington from a motor tour of the North Island.

Mr. R. M. Chadwick has been elected president of the Napier Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. and Mrs. Wedderspoon, Oriental Bay. Wellington, have left by the s.s. Shropshire for an extended business visit to Great Britain.

The Canterbury Hockey Association has removed the suspensions imposed previously in order to mark the return of peace.

Second Flight-Lieutenant Rowland H. D. Hall, formerly of the Wellington Customs long-room staff, returned to New Zealand by the Essex.

Mr. M. Henderson, Dunedin city electrical engineer, intends to leave Auckland on September 3 on a visit to America and the United Kingdom.

The Rev. E. E. Malden, formerly chaplain at King’s College, returned to Auckland by the Port Hacking after four years’ service.

Captain Humphrey Clark, M.C., who has been on active service for over four years, returned to Auckland by the Port Lyttelton

Mr. R. N. Jones has been appointed Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, in succession to the late Mr. Jackson Palmer.

Flight-Lieutenant F. J. A. Fulton, son of Mr. W. H. J. Fulton, of Kelburn, returned by the Essex after 18 months’ war service.

Prior to settling in Wellington on his own account, Mr. George A. Ginn (of Messrs. Harrison’s Ramsay Proprietary, Ltd.) will make an extended tour of Eastern countries.

A Wellington school teacher who could not obtain a permit to travel by train walked over the Rimutaka Hill to Masterton. The journey occupied two days.

Mr. C. Holdsworth, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company, accompanied by Mrs. Holdsworth, arrived in Wellington by the Essex from Newcastle.

Mr. Hurst-Seager, of Christchurch, the well-known advocate of townplanning and city beautification, left for England by the Shropshire, accompanied by his wife.

Among the Wellington passengers by the Ruapehu for England are Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Ching, and their chlidren, and Mrs. W. J. Evans.

Sergeant-Major A. C. Champney, who has been undergoing medical treatment at Rotorua for some weeks past, has returned to Palmerston North.

A cable from New York says that Andrew Carnegie’s funeral was simple. There were no pall-bearers and no sermon. He intimated that the family and the household employees only ' should attend the interment, which took place at Sleepy Hollow, near Tarrytown. Dr. Merrell, a New York Presbyterian pastor, officiated.

General Louis Botha, soldier and statesman, died at Capetown on August 28 from influenza, at the age of 57 years.

New South Wales statistics disclose that she is the wealthiest of the States of the Australian union, and that she possesses many wealthy men, but few millionaires.

Trooper M. Donovan, who at one time held the lightweight championship of Invercargill, recently returned from active service, and was accorded a hearty welcome home at a gathering of friends.

Colonel C. C. Choyce, son of Mr. H. C. Choyce, of Auckland, has been created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He was recently created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Mr. G. Brookes, who recently returned to New Zealand, after four years’ active service in France, has arrived in Gisborne to take charge of the surveying branch of the business of Mr. F. C. Hay, civil engineer.

Mr. J. S. Hiddleston, who left for England by the Shropshire, was presented with a sovereign case by the members of the Wellington North Cricket Club. The presentation was made by Mr. M. F. Luckie.

Captain W. Jack, who for the past 25 years has been connected with Messrs. Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., Ltd., has been appointed assistant general manager of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Co., Ltd., Wellington, which position he will assume on his return from active service in November next.

Lieutenant Harold Hamilton, who has recently returned from service with one of the branches of the Navy (the Motor Boat Patrol) was entertained by the staff of the Dominion Museum, of which he had been a member, at a welcoming afternoon tea, held in the Philosophical Society’s hall at the Museum, Wellington. Dr. Thompson, the director, received the guests.

A good deal of comment has been passed on the youthful appearance of many of the crew of H.M.S. New Zealand (says the “Dominion”). There are not many among them who bear the appearance of hard-bitten mariners who have braved the battle and the breeze over a long term of years. A casual enquiry as to the age of the youngest sailor on board the battleship elicited the reply that he was fifteen and a-half years old.

Explaining the word “Digger,” Brigadier-General Brand, the Victorian Commandant, stated recently that it was the password used by the Australian scouts or patrols in “No Man’s Land,” and eventually the term was applied to fighting troops. At one time, he said, the greatest compliment that could be paid to a man in France was to refer to him as a digger. Since the armistice every man wearing the uniform of the Australian Imperial Force was dubbed a “digger.” The word should be protected, said General Brand, and should not be applied to men who did not know the sound of a “5.9.”

“In Palestine,” said Major Hine, at Stratford, “the women are looked upon merely as chattels, and it is a common thing to see a man riding on a donkey, followed by his wife on foot, bearing, perhaps, many parcels and a number of children.” It was a great joke to the soldiers, said Major Hine, to pull a man off the donkey and set his wife thereon, though, no doubt, when the soldiers were out of sight the man would get back on the 'donkey.

Mr. T. P. B. Ching, who has been appointed London manager for the South British Insurance Company, Ltd, was farewelled in Wellington by a large gathering of insurance representatives. Mr. Gordon J. Reid, chairman of the Wellington Fire Underwriters’ Association, in presenting a solid silver salver and cigarette-box, on behalf of the members, referred to the very high esteem in which Mr. Ching is held in insurance circles, and wished him every success in the future.

Mr. Albert Russell, an old Napier boy, was met in Wellington by a number of Napier Savages, including Messrs. P. N. Harris, M. Burt, R. Magill, H. O. Macfarlane, and W. L. Prime, and presented with a gold tiki in appreciation of the valued services freely given towards the formation of the Napier Savage Club. A letter of appreciation from the chairman of the Napier Soldiers’ Club Committee, Mr. B. Tweedie, for the general assistance given at the Anzac concerts, was also handed to Mr. Russell.

Mr. A. F. Meldrum, LL.B, (son of Brigadier-G'eneral Meldrum), and the Rhodes scholar for New Zealand for 1917, left for England by the Shropshire He was a student at Victoria College, and immediately enlisted on the outbreak of war. Returning from service at Samoa, he went into camp at Trentham, and left as a sergeant with the Thirteenth Reinforcements. He took part in the Somme offensive, and was slightly wounded. He intends to take an extra course of law at New College, Oxford, in terms of the Rhodes Scholarship.

“We all know how deep an interest New Zealand has always taken in matters naval,” said Lord Jellicoe in Wellington. “We don’t wonder at it, because New Zealand has always appreciated the vital necessity of sea power for the Empire. But if we ever had any doubt on the matter it would have been disabused during our voyage out here from England by a gallant soldier, Clutha Mackenzie, whom, I am glad to say, proud to say, we had the pleasure of bringing out as far as Australia. He was a representative of that gallant band, that glorious band, of nearly 100,000 officers and men who came from this land to fight for the British Empire, whose deeds have won glory that will never die, that will go down to history, and will last for ever.” (Applause.)

The steamer Lady Charlotte, of Cardiff, 7000 tons dead weight, recently changed hands for £165,000, and the Cardiff steamer Stellina, of 5800 tons, has fetched £120,000, more than double the price paid for her in 1915.

“New Zealand wants a publicity bureau very badly in America,” said a returned traveller the other day, “as only about one in every ten Americans knows that such a country exists, and their ideas about New Zealand are very hazy. If more prominence were given to New Zealand it would result in a great amount of tourist traffic coming this way from the States, and there would also be a considerable number of American workmen emigrating if they knew more about the conditions under which the New Zealand workman lives.” * V * « Admiral Jellicoe, speaking at the luncheon tendered him in Wellington by the Government, said the troubles suffered during the submarine campaign were due' to the inadequate number of our destroyers. It developed that their only hope of saving our merchant ships was by the convoy system, “and I hadn’t the vessels to do it. If I had withdrawn the few destroyers from the trade routes they occupied to endeavour, inadequately, to protect the convoys, our losses would have been far greater than they were. The only thing that enabled us to establish a convoy system was the entry of the United States, and with the whole of its destroyer force.” The American Ad-

miral asked him what they wanted, and he replied: “Every ship you have got”; and it was those vessels which enabled us to start the convoy system, which went a long way towards saving our merchant ships in the later stages of the Avar. (Applause.) • • * • In the newsroom of the Christchurch “Press” a presentation was made to Mr. E. Hardcastle, who is retiring from the position of agricultural editor of the “Press” and “Weekly Press” after having been connected with the Christchurch Press Company for over thirty-three years. Mr. P. Selig, the manager of the company, presented Mr. Hardcastle with a handsome entree dish, suitably inscribed, as a slight testimony of the esteem in which he was held by his fellow-workers, and further presented him with a substantial cheque from the directors. * • » = “Lawks, this war do open one’s eyes, don’t it? Fancy your son writing from Jerooslem —I always thought Jerooslem was in heaven!”