TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1547, 18 December 1919, Page 40

TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. M. Harvey, of Hokianga, is proceeding on a visit to Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth.

Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowry leave for England next year. Mrs. Lowry is at present in Australia. > * * M

A returned soldiers’ orchestra has been formed in Hastings with Mr. H. Spencer Salt in control.

Mr. H. F. Wood, the popular Wellington tenor, leaves for Australia early in the New Year, and he will take up his residence in Sydney.

Mr. R. H. Inder has been appointed assistant master at the Seddon Memorial Technical College, with special charge of sports for the boys of the Technical High School.

Early in the new year Mr. and Mrs Allport, of the Hutt, will leave for Sydney, and in March next will leave there for England by the Orontes.

Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Friend, of Wellington, and family left by the Riverina for an extended trip to England and the Continent.

Colonel Robert Logan, late Administrator of Samoa, accompanied by Mrs. Logan, left Wellington for London by the Paparoa.

Mr. R. O. Bell, a New Zealander who for some years has been associated with the motor and cycle industry at Coventry, England, has left for a trip to the Dominion.

Mr. and Mrs. L. R. BeddalV of Ngaruawahia, Waikato, and formerly of Martinborough, are spending a holiday in Carterton, prior to sailing in the Athenic in February next on a visit to England.

Mr. James Coates, of the National Bank of New Zealand, who has been resident in London for several years, will shortly arrive in New Zealand on a visit.

Colonel James V. Foster, of Preston, England, head of the great printing machinery manufacturing firm of the same name, is on a tour of the Dominion.

Mr. H. B. Lusk, of the teachingstaff of Christ’s College, Christchurch, has accepted a position at King’s College, Auckland. Mr. Lusk is well known in cricket and golf circles throughout New Zealand.

Mr. John Ure Smith, long identified with the management of the Australia Hotel in Sydney and before that with Menzies’ (Melbourne), lost his life by drowning off the yacht Oenone in North Harbour, Manly, on November 23.

Fifty-eight years in the employ of one firm is claimed to be a record for Auckland, if not for New Zealand. Mr. Alexander Smith, who has just retired from a position on the staff of Leighton and Son, Ltd., joined the firm in 1860, when only eleven years of age.

Mr. P. Appleton, who formerly resided in the Clutha district, but who has been farming in South Africa for over twenty years, is returning to New Zealand next July. Mr. Appleton proposes to reside at Nelson.

A framed enlarged photograph of the late engine driver, Mr. T. Walsh, who was killed in the Main Trunk runaway train smash last May. has been hung in the Taihape railway social hall, as a memorial and as a mark of the appreciation of his fellow employees. The enlargement was donated by members of the locomotive and traffic staff.

Mr. John Strang, who died at Glenside, Wairarapa, was sixty-four years of age, was born at Tupurupurn. Gladstone, and was a son of the late Mr. James Strang, one of the pioneers of the district. Besides being a prominent breeder and judge of Shorthorn cattle, he was a member of the committee of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and had tendered lengthy service on local bodies. He leaves a widow, two sons, and three daughters. One of his sons, Captain Strang, was killed while on active service.

The Rev. Father Barra is returning to New Zealand after service in France as a chaplain.

It is stated that the Government has purchased nine thousand acres of Hawke’s Bay land to be used for soldiers’ settlement. Five thousand acres of the land is the back part of Mr. T. H. Lowry’s Okawa estate and the remaining 4000 acres has been secured from the late Herbert .Colemanes “Crownthorpe” estate and from Mr. W. Shrimpton, Matapiro.

Mr. C. F. Adams, late resident of Wellington, and now of Goulburn, New South Wales, collided. with a motor car while cycling to his home. He was sent clean through the windscreen, receiving injuries necessitating sixteen stitches to the head. He is making satisfactory progress. Mr Adams is a son of Mrs. C. W. Adams, Lower Hutt.

Mr. and Mrs. Hope-Gibbons, of Wanganui, with Miss A. Gibbons and Mr. H. F. Gibbons are leaving on a trip to England in April next.

Mr. Cyril W. Gudgeon, who was born at Cromwell in 1884, has been appointed general mine manager for the Mount Bischoff Mining Company, of Tasmania. At the age of 13 he joined the New Zealand Railways service as a clerk, but owing to eye trouble he left and took up mining. He gained mining experience on various mines in Central Otago, and after completing a course in mining and metallurgy in the Scranton School took a special course of training at the Otago University.

Mr. W. H. Montgomery, Director of Vocational Training, is retiring and will proceed to England on a holiday trip in February or March next. Mr. Montgomery, who held the position of Assistant Director of Base Records for three years and during the past twelve months has carried out the duties of Director of Vocational Training, has given the whole of these four years’ service without remuneration. Major W. A. G. Penlington, vocational officer for the Auckland District since the inception of the educational vocational training scheme, has been appointed Mr. Montgomery’s successor. He left with the 10th Reinforcements and joined up with the Rifle Brigade, with which he served on the Western front until 1918, when he was invalided to New Zealand. Prior to going into khaki Major Penlington was science lecturer at the Teachers’ TrainingCollege, Auckland.

At the monthly meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society it was stated that recently three sportsmen from Palmerston North destroyed forty-two shags at a shaggery on the Pohangina River.

Nev/s from Home states that Sur-geon-General R. F. S. Henderson, late Director of Medical Services for the New Zealand Government, has beep knighted. Sir R. Henderson only left here early this year for India (where he had many friends), since which time he has travelled to England. Sir R. F. S. Henderson, K.C.M.G., C. 8., K.H.P., was brought out to New Zealand at the special request of the Government to organise the New Zealand medical services and place them on a proper footing.

Mr. O. Borer, 8.E., who was awarded an Engineering Travelling Scholarship, recently left New Zealand for Europe and America. Mr. Borer, who is 24 years of age, had a distinguished career at the Te Aro School and Wellington College, culminating in a Turnbull Scholarshipat Victoria College, and the gaining of the Engineering Erhibition at Canterbury College.

Mr. G. Shirtcliffe, of Wellington, who left last February for the United States, spent two and a half months in that country, and then went to England. He arrived in New York on November 21, and is now. on his way to the Pacific Coast. From San Francisco Mr. Shirtcliffe (accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Shirtcliffe) will proceed to China and Japan, returning to New Zealand via Australia,about May next.

It is understood (says a Hawke’s Bay paper) that a movement is on foot in Hastings to form a company for the purpose of erecting an. up-to-date private hotel. The building is to be in a central position and when completed will be equal to anything else in the Dominion. Two gentlemen well known 'in Hastings are at the bottom of the movement.

In the hunting competition at the recent floral fete at Ellerslie, the first event —the best horseman and horse over three fences —was won by Mr. J. Patton, on Dick. Mr. H. BullockWebster was second on Dominion. In the ladies’ competition Miss Maher was declared the winner. She also rode Mr. Patton’s horse. Miss Briggs was second, the hunter in this case also being Dominion.

Many humorous stories were related at a smoke concert given by theWellington College Old Boys’ Assoc; iation. One of the best was related by the head master of the College (Mr. J. P. Firth). It was about a bullock driver who was much given to blasphemous outburst. As a preparation to driving a heavy load of wheat up a steep incline the bullock driver in question halted his team at the foot of the hill while he“sank” a pint of beer at a nearby hostelry. While he was slaking his thirst the two village loafers slit thewheat sacks at the rear of the cart. The bullock driver; in due course took his seat and commenced his uphill journey, while the two loafers followed up behind the roadway hedge to wait developments. Halfway up the hill the driver halted to give his team a rest. Then he noted the long stream of wheat trailing up the hill. The two waiting onces listened with eager anticipation while the luridtongued one raised his hands to the sky. Then the bullock driver dropped his arms limply to his side. “No,” he cried hoarsely, “I could not do it justice.”

Mr. W.. Brown, of the firm of Messrs. Laery and Company, Wellington, leaves for a trip to Australia’ and England early next year.

Captain S. N. Ziman, of Auckland, who returned by the Maheno, holds a responsible position in the Indian Civil Service, and is at present on furlough. He is an old boy of the Auckland Grammar School, and was the first Auckland Rhodes scholar. He gained his commission while serving on the Indian frontier. » o • • The Government has purchased from Mr. Maurice Coughlan (licensee of the Provincial Hofei, Dunedin) his farm of 1240 acres at Pukekohe, in the Auckland district (states the “Otago Times”). The purchase price is £20,000. Possession will be given on March 31. The surveyors are now cutting up the farm into holdings for returned soldiers. The property is considered one of the most desirable in New Zealand from a dairying point of view, and it is stated that Mr. Coughlan could have obtained a higher price from local purchasers.