Tourist and Traveller

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1538, 16 October 1919, Page 40

Tourist and Traveller

HERE AND THERE.

Opossums are now protected in the Waimate Acclimatisation District.

Dr. and Mrs. Putnam, Palmerston North, have left on a holiday trip to Australia.

Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Craig, Auckland, left Wellington by the Moana on a visit to San Francisco.

Mr. C. H. Barrett returned to Wellington by the Moana, after a business trip through Canada and America.

Mr. J. T. Horn, of Wellington, is leaving for England by the Osterley from Sydney next month in connection with the orchard industry, more particularly the export of apples from New Zealand.

Captain F. D. Helmore has returned to Christchurch after four years’ service with the Imperial Forces in France.

Mr. C. H. Barrett, who has been on a business visit to the United States and Canada, returned to Wellington by the Moana.

Messrs. W. T. and H. W. Horne, relatives of Mr. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, have been visiting Wellington. The Messrs. Horne left by the R.M.S. Moana for San Francisco, en route to Washington, D.C., to pay a visit to Mr and Mrs. Wilson.

Mr. H. St. A. Murray, who took a prominent part in athletics in New Zealand before the war, has returned to Christchurch, after a long period of active service.

Mr. E. Nordon, of Christchurch, for many years president of the New Zealand Hockey Association, is about to leave for South Africa for health reasons.

Mr. Victor Fitzherbert, who is a member of the Emelie Polini Dramatic Company, now in Wellington, is a ( member of the well-known Palmerston North family of that name.

The public demand for trout from the Rotorua lakes is as keen as ever, reports the Internal Affairs Deuartment, which has charge of fish distribution.

A report by the Federation of British Industries, while against nationalisation, favours State regulation of monopolies. It says an industry owned or managed by the State entering into competitive trade in foreign countries would be “disastrous to any hope of amicable international relations. Every trade dispute would become a potential casus belli, every unpaid account or broken contract the subject of an ultimatum.”

His ... Excellency the GovernorGeneral- has been unanimously elected a life member of the Wellington Orphans’' Club.

Mr. W. Morley, managing director of Mason, Struthers and Co., Ltd., returned to Christchurch last week from a business trip to America and Japan.

Matron Greaves, who returned to Newcastle, N.S.W., last month after nursing in England and France, was a fellow-passenger on the voyage home with a Belgian lady who married Sappei’ J. L. Smith, of Sedden, Melbourne. Mrs. Smith was in prison in Belgium with Nurse Edith Cavell and three Belgian girls from Wamur. These girls were shot with Nurse Cavell, and Mrs. Smith saw' the shooting through a window of her prison. She was wounded five times, including twice by German bayonets, because she refused to move off the footpaths while German soldiers passed.

The records offices in London of the various overseas forces are making their last grand tally, and trying to trace every man who has appeared on their books. Up to the present some 7000, about 1 per cent, of the total, cannot be accounted for. Not all these men are considered to be definitely lost. Some have gone on furlough and have accepted work without the formality of communicating with the authorities. Others have married and settled down with their “in-laws” in preference to returning to camp and telling the colonel. Others again are the restless irresponsibles, who have neglected to apply for an authorised discharge in England, although they might have had it with a little patience. Many of these, it is thought, will trickle back. The South Africans have but 25 'absentees, every other man of the 26,000 who came over being accounted for. The New Zealanders are 300

short, but they expect to see this figure reduced. Most of the “missing” Australians and Canadians are wandering about without authority, and it will take a long time for the Military Police to round them up and shepherd them into concentration camps. Some of the Dominion Governments are publishing advertisements warning these men to return by a certain date, unless they wish to forego gratuity and a free passage home.

Mr. N. M. Richmond, of Canterbury College, has been elected the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1919. Mr. Richmond has had a brilliant career as a scholar and an athlete, his successes dating back from his boyhood days. He also served at the front.

The New Zealand Government has introduced a new method of advertising by 'filling a large window in the Strand, London, with watercolours by New Zealand artists. These have attracted a great amount of attention.

A Paris message states that the French have removed the Imperial eagle which decorated the Strassburg bridge, and substituted a Gallic cock, with its neck stretched out, crowing, towards Germany.

Mr. Alexander Macintosh, late superintendent for Messrs. Dalgety and Co., and formerly general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, left Wellington for Sydney last week, where he intends taking up residence for some time.

Mr T. M. Wilford, member for Hutt, quoted in the House Australian statistics to show that there was more unemployment in Queensland than in any other Australian State, and also a larger number.of strikes. The cost of living, as shown by index numbers, had risen more in Queensland than in any other State. The Queensland increase from 1914 to 1919 was 63.23 per cent.

Mr. N. Wilson, son of Sir James Wilson, of Bulls, who met with a serious accident while out shooting about ten weeks ago, has completely lost the sight of the injured eye, and underwent another operation recently.

Officers and men of the Mercantile Marine are eligible to- receive the Mercantile Marine War Medal in special recognition of the- peculiarly valuable services they rendered to the national and Allied cause, states Sir Auckland Geddes. The grant of this medal will be strictly confined to merchant officers and seamen, and will not be extended to any other class of persons. This decision is based on a desire specially to honour the British Mercantile Marine by the grant to them of a medal officially accorded precedence over the Victory Medal. They will, of course, receive the British War Medal. It is also announced that the British War Medal is to be given to the British, Dominion, Colonial, and Indian Mercantile Marine.

Captain P. h H. Harper, son of Mr. George Harper, of Christchurch, has arrived back from active service. He left New Zealand as a corporal in the Army Service Corps Divisional Train, with the Main Body, serving continuously on Gallipoli and in France until the Armistice.

“All the boys are not at home,” said Sir James Allen at the meeting of the Returned Soldiers’ Clubhouse Society in Wellington. “There are still about 2000 in camp in England, less than 200 sick, some wives, and between 4000 and 5000 on the water. As to the reception and entertainment of these men —I am confident the ladies will not cease their splendid efforts until the last man has arrived.” (Applause.)

Mr. J. P. Luke, Mayor, at the last meeting of the Wellington City Council referred to the death of Mr. Frank Moeller, of Napier. The deceased, he said, was at one time a member of the Wellington City Council and had done valuable work in that capacity. At Napier he and Mrs. Moeller had also rendered splendid service in patriotic causes, and his death was a great loss to the Napier community.

“I venture to predict,” said Mr. J. T. M. Hornsby in the House of Representatives, “that in thirty years’ time this country will be importing butter, because the farmers will not make it. They will confine themselves to cheese, casein, dried milk, and sugar of milk.” Mr. Hornsby showed how the return per cow had risen, till now it was £2O to £25, and he thought that with the manufacture of the new products it would rise to £35.

The following wireless message was received from Lord Jellicoe by the Deputy-Mayor, Mr. A. J. Entrican:—“l cannot let the day of leaving Auckland pass without telling you of the great regret with which all on board H.M.S. New Zealand say goodbye to the citizens. The warmhearted hospitality and kindness shown on all sides has made our stay in the port most pleasant and memorable. Auckland has been a real home to the officers and men who man New Zealand’s gift ship. We leave many friends behind us, and we send to all our. heartiest good wishes for their future happiness and prosperity. Kia Ora.”

“Is the Government satisfied that the Adolph Woermann is the right class of boat to bring out returned soldiers?” asked Mr. A. Walker (Dunedin North) in the House. He had been told, he added, that the Canadian authorities had refused to use the vessel for that purpose. During the voyage the freezing machinery had gone out of gear, and as a consequence the meat was bad. The sergeants’ mess was right opposite the hospital. The boat was built for short runs only, and was' in a bad state of repair. Mr. Massey said that the name of the ship was sufficient to satisfy members that she was not of much account. The Defence authorities were inquiring into the matter, and a report would be forthcoming.