TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1546, 11 December 1919, Page 44

TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Grocott, of Hamilton, are leaving for a trip to England by the Remuera.

“Build houses first” is chalked on a hoarding in front of a kinema in course of erection at Wimbledon.

Mr. Phil Myers, Wellington, accompanied by Mrs. Myers and family, has left for Sydney, en route for England.

London tailors have decided that a fair margin of profit in their trade is 33 1-3 per cent.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cole, of Wellington, returned by the Riverina from Sydney after an extended tour of the United Kingdom.

In every scheme involving human action there are three elements always to be taken in account —time, place, and agency.—Lew Wallace.

The World’s Alliance of Y.M.C.A.’s has appointed Mr. J. J. Virgo as the world’s representative. He is to visit South Africa in February.

Mr. A. C. Moore, of Timaru, intends proceeding to Queensland, where he has purchased an estate of 10,000 acres, and intends going in for fruitgrowing.

Captain and Mrs. J. McCracken, who arrived from China about five years ago, and settled in the Christchurch district, are leaving for England shortly.

Mr. L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, returned by the Riverina after a visit to Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria on departmental business.

Mr. W. G. Haybittie, of Feilding, and Mr. F. W. Haybittie, of Wellington, returned from a trip to the Southern Islands by the Government steamer Hinemoa.

Mrs. Mary Kemp, the oldest woman organist in England, celebrated her eightieth birthday by giving an. organ recital in the parish church of Sandy, Bedfordshire.

Mr. Walter Scott, of Messrs. W. B. Scott and Co., Christchurch, left by the Remuera for a business trip to London, Italy, and other parts of Europe, as well as Canada and ' the United States.

Mr. T. C. Brash, Wellington, is leaving for England by the Ruahine about the end of January on a business trip for the National Dairy Association. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Brash, and expects to return in about eight or nine months.

Excellent trout fishing is now being obtained in the Whakatane River. A catch of 30 fish in one day, of an average weight of 31b., was made last week by an East Coast angler, the largest being 4%1b. Two fine trout, one of and one of have also been taken this season.

Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Dean and Miss Dean returned to Napier recently from England. Mr. Dean was for 20 years, ending in 1913, Hawke’s Bay manager of the Government Insurance Department. Soon after the New Zealand soldiers began to arrive in England from Gallipoli in 1915, Mr. Dean was invited by the High Commissioner to assist in the conduct of the Pay Office. When in 1916 he handed over his activities to headquarters he was retained and for two years visited, on behalf of the Commissioner, the various hospitals in England to which New Zealanders were sent and had special reports sent to relatives in New Zealand.

During the war, said Mr. J. G. Herdman at the last meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, the loss of regular traders to' New Zealand amounted to 19 insulated ships, representing a capacity of 1,836,800 freight carcases for a single trip.

Mr. David Weir and family are passengers by the liner St. Albans from Hongkong, due in Sydney on November 29. The Sydney “Commercial News” states that Mr. Weir, who is a brother of Lord Inverforth, and a director of the well-known shipowners, Andrew Weir and Co., intends making a short stay in New Zealand. » • «. •

Interesting mention of the rainbow trout was made by Dr. Tillyard (of Australia) in a lecture to the Philosophical Society in Wellington. Dr. Tillyard considered the brown trout much superior to the rainbow from the sporting point of view. It flattered anyone who ccruld not throw a fly to go and catch a rainbow trout, he said, but that fish was so voracious at certain seasons that it would “jump at a red. rag.” It was not, therefore, a subject for scientific 'fishing. The brown trout, on the other hand, required a great deal of catching.

In opening the season of the Evans Bay Swimming and Life-Saving Club, Mr. G. S. Hill said that he hoped it would be possible to send Mr. Patterson (one of the club’s members) to the Olympic Games at Antwerp next year as New Zealand’s representative. The matter had not yet been finally settled, but he would, do all in his power to bring the arrangement about.

Brown trout, Ilin, long, estimated to be two years old, have been secured in the Kaihu Creek, some 17 miles from Dargaville. Many other trout were observed in the vicinity. This is taken as evidence that the efforts to stock the stream will prove satisfactory.

Mr. Alastair Macgregor Frame, of the firm of Frame, Leaycraft and Co., general merchants, of • New York, is on a visit to the Dominion. He proceeds from New Zealand to Sydney, thence to Shanghai (where he opens an office for the firm), Java, Singapore, Calcutta, and home via Colombo and Suez, reaching America in July, after an absence of nine months.

Mr. D. T. Sheehan, eldest son of Mr. Thomas Sheehan, of Napier, who died at Napier recently after a long illness, was a Main Body boy of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces He was 42 years of age, and saw a good deal of service in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France.

John Francis, a bootblack, who for more than thirty years has occupied a stand opposite “The Coal Hole” in the Strand, London, haa had a windfall of £l5OO, a legacy from a woman who was a friend of his family years ago. Francis is more than 70, and a solicitor has long been searching for hint.

The Lord Mayor of Hull has been asked to vouch for the bona fides of many local soldiers who have wooed French or Belgian girls, says the “Weekly Dispatch” correspondent. Inquiries have come from France and Belgium, and the Lord Mavor has supplied the ’ information, in most cases satisfactory, which the local Vigilance Association has obtained. Some of the girls belong to well-to-do families in France. In one instance the prospective bride made a special journey to England before consenting to go to the altar.’

“Your wife is a foreigner, too, is she not?” asked counsel of a witness in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington. The witness replied: “Yes, I think she is; her parents are Irish, and she was born in Nelson.”

Mr. W. Roberts, of Auckland, was the first to motor over the new road from Waipapakauri to Hohoura, in the Far North. Accompanied by Mr. J. G. Hindmarsh as guide, Mr. Roberts left Waipapakauri at 2 p.m. on a . recent Sunday, and reached Hohoura at 7 p.m. The road over the gumfields has only recently been cut, and in places is very deep in sand. Mr. Roberts states that motorists undertaking the same trip should take with them a coil of rope for lashing the car wheels, and also a shovel, and should also have a guide who knows the road well. The track is not well defined, and is tortuous, while branch tracks are numerous and rather baffling to a stranger. The worst patch of sand'on the route is immediately beyond the Pukenui wharf, but horses are procurable in the neighbourhood in case of need. Messrs. Roberts and Hindmarsh returned to Waipapakauri via Waihakara in three hours’ actual running time. This is a record for the trip, the previous best time being three hours twenty minutes.

In presenting a special sword of honour and scabbard, from the Grey Caledonian Society in Wellington, to Lieutenant Frickleton, V.C., MajorGeneral Robin congratulated Lieutenant Frickleton on his achievements. He said he had been asked by the Minister of Defence, in his unavoidable absence, to make the presentation on behalf of the Grey Caledonian Society. The sword was inscribed: “Presented to Lieutenant Frickleton, V.C., by members of the Grey Caledonian Society, as a token of admiration, 1918.” General Robin added that he had every confidence that Lieutenant Frickleton would fulfil the motto of the sword: “Never draw me without reason, or sheath me without honour.”

Field-Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby just before leaving Egypt sent the Salvation Army a message expressing his gratitude for the "great and good work which it has done for the Army under my command.” He says: “The zeal and energy of your workers have overcome all difficulties, and their courage has made light of every danger. Their services have been of incalculable benefit to my troops, and their influence has proved of the highest value.”

The skeleton of a prehistoric man has been unearthed at Lockeridge, near Marlborough, England, during digging operations in search of flint. It is in a fail’ state of preservation, and is said by Mr. J. W. Brooke, an archaeologist, to belong to the Neolithic or late Stone period. The skull is of a very low type, and the teeth show marked canine tendencies.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Temple, V.C., whose death was recently announced, won the Victoria Cross at the attack on Rangiriri, Waikato, November 20, 1863. It is recorded that Assistant-Surgeon William Temple and Lieutenant Arthur Pickard were awarded the Cross for gallant conduct during the assault on Rangiriri, in exposing their lives to imminent danger, in crossing the entrance of the Maori keep at a point upon which the enemy had concentrated their fire, with a view to rendering assistance to the wounded, and more especially to the late Captain Mercer, R.A., who had led a party of 36 artillerymen in an assault on the centre redoubt to Rangiriri.

Never have the glory spots of New Zealand been more faithfully depicted than in the Christmas issue of the “New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review.” Secure a copy and post abroad.

Mr. Albert Bruce, of Thames, has resigned his position as secretary of the Thames Harbour Board. Mr. Bruce is well known in commercial and sporting circles. He is connected with several industrial undertakings on the Hauraki peninsula, was president of the Country Racing Clubs’ Conference, and was for years chairman of committee of the Thames Jockey Club. *' ♦ - * • The Dunedin “Star” draws the following pen picture of the late Mr. Donald Sutherland, “King of Milford Sound”: Mr. Sutherland was a wellknown figure to tourists. Big enough to fill a doorway; slow of speech, but full of matter when once started on subjects that his s.elf-education had enabled him to master; distant in manner, but fully understanding hospitality as a rite; passionately fond of Nature, and full of resource in the bush or \the water; proud—with all the characteristic pride of his Highland race — Donald has been called one of the vikings, and not inaptly. He hailed from Wick, in the north of Scotland. He came out as a young man and served in the Maori War of the sixties Then he had a turn at the Thames diggings. After that he came south, and started fossicking for gold in the back country of Westland. From gold-hunting he took to exploring, impelled to that life by the beauty of the wild country, and when he saw Milford Sound he was so captivated by its grandeur that he stayed there. He lived by himself, on the flat referred to, of which he occupied six acres; for 12 years, undertaking pioneering journeys. In one of these he discovered the world-famous falls which bear his name; on another expedition, in 1880, he found the pass which has been named McKinnon’s Pass. Sutherland named it Balloon Pass, after the mountain by its side.

A breach by two people in the audience at the Hawera Opera House a few days ago of the recognised action of standing while the National Anthem is being played, was dealt with by the proprietor in a way that will undoubtedly win the approval of everyone. It appears that their refusal to stand had been often recognised, and rightly resented by two returned soldiers, who reported the matter to the proprietor. He spoke to. the persons, and on their stating rudely that they would not pay timehonoured compliment to his Majesty the King, he told them that they would in future be refused admission to the Opera House. * • ■ Never have the glory spots of New Zealand been more faithfully depicted than in the Christmas issue of the “New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review.” Secure a chpy and post abroad.