TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1551, 22 January 1920, Page 40

TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. Stanley Read, Wanganui, while on a visit to Auckland made a trip over the city in a seaplane.

Mr. H. Lough, of the Whaler Paper Mills, British Columbia, is revisiting New Zealand after an absence of ten years.

Mr. Roy Heath, accountant to the firm of J. J. Niven and Co., has been appointed town clerk of Napier out of 33 applicants.

Mr. C. J. Ward, vice-president of the Wellington Industrial Association, returned from a visit to the United States by the Makura.

Asked in Christchurch as to his immediate political intentions, Sir Joseph Ward stated that he was making no announcement just yet.

Plans for a concrete pile and steel truss bridge across the Waihou river at Puriri, costing £27,500, have been approved by the Thames County Council.

Dr. D. B. Walshe, who has been medical superintendent of the Thames Hospital for many years, has resigned his position, and intends practising in Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Caro, of Kobe, Japan, arrived in Auckland by the Makura, and will spend about four or five weeks in New Zealand before returning to Japan.

Captain Eric Porritt, M.C., returned from the front by the Kigoma, accompanied by his wife. He was detained on demobilising and embarking the troops for New Zealand. » * * *

Colonel A. D. Stitt, D. 5.0., M.C., of the Canterbury Regiment, who left with the Main Body, returned to Wellington bv the Kigoma. LieutenantColonel Mead; D. 5.0., of the same regiment, and also a Main Body officer, returned also.

Mr. James Bee, M.A., M.Sc., Principal of Scotts College, Sydney, accompanied by Mrs. Bee, has been spending a holiday in the Hot Lakes district.. For many years Mr. Bee was a member of the staff of Wellington College.

Mr. Gilbert Simpson, formerly manager of the Bruce Woollen Mills, left for England by the Arawa. He intends purchasing the necessary machinery for the new Masterton Mills, of which he was recently appointed manager.

Professor Bond, of Wellington, who is an authority on trout fishing in various parts of the world, expresses the opinion that the fishing at Makuri compares favourably with that of the fiords in Norway. He has had some splendid sport during the season, and states that he is likely to be a constant visitor to Makuri.

Dr. Guy Scholefield, the well-known journalist, accompanied by Mrs. Scholefield and family, returned to Wellington by the Kigoma after several years’ residence in London. During the war period Dr. Scholefield was responsible for valuable work. Among his . many efforts, in addition to his ordinarv work, was the production of the “New Zealander,” published for the benefit of members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

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Mr. H. Dittmer and family, who have resided at Ashhurst for the past twenty years, have left for San Francisco, where they will in future reside.

Contrary to expectations, said Dr. Scholefield to a “N.Z. Times” reporter, the number of men who were unemployed in England to-day was remarkably low. Wages, of course, were very much higher than they were before the war, but as a result largely of the railway strike, employers were feeling a great deal more confidence in the temper of labour and were showing much more inclination to go ahead. Moreover, the conditions of living had very greatly improved during the last few months. The price of coal, which made the outlook for the winter very gloomy, had been reduced by 10s. per ton; the control of meat had been abandoned, and the rationing of sugar and butter had been slightly- increased.

Captain and Mrs. Pharazyn, Wellington, left for London by the Arawa.

Lieutenant H. J. Manning, late Assistant Embarkation Officer for the N.Z.E.F. in London, returned to New Zealand by the transport Kigoma.

We regret to record the death of Mr. C. F. Griffiths, barrister and solicitor, of Auckland, which occurred on January 13 after a serious illness. Mr. Griffiths was born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1853, and was educated at the Church of England Grammar School and at the Scotch College. He entered a legal office in Geelong, and, removing to New Zealand in 1870, he was articled to Mr. Edward Bennett. He 'finished his articles with Messrs. W. J. Hill and E. A. Mackechnie, and in 1880 was admitted to the Bar by the late Mr. Justice Richmond.

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Scientific research has revealed the fact that many of the ills from which we suffer are largely due to the artificial and indiscreet conditions under which we live, and it is quite evident that if it were possible to revert to natural remedies it would save many a doctor’s bill and needless suffering. Mrs. E. Tollerton, consulting herbalist, 115 Karangahape Road, Auckland, has recently purchased the business formerly owned by Mr. McLeod-Craig, the well-known herbalist, and is desirous that suffering humanity shall participate in Nature’s remedies. To this end Mrs. Tollerton, who has made a long study of the value of herbal and magnetic healing, invites, through our advertising columns, those who are suffering to give Nature a chance. Mrs. Tollerton has a pleasing personality and is quick to diagnose and eager to assist sufferers back to normal health. There is no doubt that under a system of proper diet, assisted by remedies which Nature gives,

will restore lost health, and Mrs. Tollerton’s knowledge and experience should make her name a household word where patients are willing to use Nature’s healing tonics. She is also a masseuse and magnetic healer, and her exceptional skill in both branches should be an acquisition to her business.

At the Masonic Hotel, Napier, Mr. P. H. Harris, who has been promoted from manager of the Napier branch of the South British Insurance Company to manager of the Christchurch branch, was met by members of the Napier Savage Club, and presented with a gold tiki. Chief Savage A. E. Renouf made the presentation. Mr. Harris, in reply, thanked his brother Savages for their kind gift, and recommended them to hear the New South Wales Orchestra, which he had heard in Auckland. It was something out of the ordinary, and nothing finer had been heard in the Dominion. All that had been written about it was not in any way over-praising it.

Anglers report an improvement in the size and quality of the fish caught this year in the Taupo, Rotorua and Waikato River waters. At Lake Taupo the best fish had been caught by trolling in deep water, and these fish are running up to 71b. and 81b., being of larger size than those caught last year.

“The journey via Panama is well worth making once,” said Mr. Harold Beauchamp in the course of an interview, “but it will offer no attractions for regular travellers to and from New Zealand, until there is a distinct improvement in the passenger accommodation on the steamers engaged in the trade. At present most of the first-class accommodation is provided in the vicinity of the engine-room, with the result that, in the warm weather (of which there is at least 16 days on the passage) the temperature in one’s cabin hovers between 80 degrees and 90 degrees Fahrenheit. With a high percentage of moisture,

plus a steam pipe in some of the state rooms, one can picture the condition of the unfortunate travellers, and how they long for a temperate climate.” Mr. Beauchamp confessed himself amazed at the efficient system of coaling steamers at Colon. “Here (he said) we took in 320 tons in 20 minutes’ We berthed at a pier on which was erected a high scaffolding, and from the platform of this all the facilities for coaling were operated by machinery. On the piei’ was a large quantity of small coal, which, to prevent dust rising, was damped. When coaling commences a large grab descends from the scaffolding, picks up the coal, places it in a small waggon—where it is automatically weighed—and the waggon, running along a short tramway line, drops the coal into a shoot, where it is conveyed into the bunkers or hold of the steamer. From Colon we proceeded to Newport News to take in more coal. That deviation meant a delay in our journey to London of not less than five days.”

Mr. Walter McDonald, youngest son of Mrs. J. McDonald, of Nelson, has returned to Nelson after an absence of nearly 13 years. Mr. McDonald joined the Canadian Kilties Band at Greymouth in 1907, and with that organisation toured Tasmania, Australia, Ceylon, India, Burniah, Egypt, Italy, France, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, eventually finishing in New York.