HERE AND THERE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1573, 17 June 1920, Page 36

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. and Mrs. Kirkley and family, Havelock North, left by the Makura on a visit to England.

Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Whittle, Wellington and their two daughters left by the Remuera for England. * * * *

Lieutenant - Colonel Chalmers, of Dunoon, Argyllshire, is visiting relatives in South Canterbury, where he intends to settle on the land.

Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Rutherford, “Connemara,” North Canterbury, spent a few days in Auckland before leaving for Sydney.

Mr. H. A. Russell, of Napier, leaves shortly on a trip to the Old Country.

Out of 16 applications, Mr. H. A. Blake, of Trentham, has been appointed caretaker for the Tauherenikau racecourse.

Messrs. E. Short and L. T. McClean, of Fielding, have left for Auckland, where they embark on the Niagara for America. They will be absent from New Zealand several months.

Mr. M. C. Featherston, London manager for Wright Stephenson and Co., who has been in the Dominion for some months, left for Vancouver last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Hunter, formerly of the Malay Federated States, and later of Queensland, left by the Tainui en route for Scotland, after having spent some months in New Zealand.

Mr. W. Barton, Wairarapa, accompanied by his daughters, Misses Annette and Mabel Barton, is leaving shortly on a visit to Canada. Afterwards the Misses Barton will proceed to England and join their mother and sisters already in 'the Homeland.

Mr. A. J. Carlton, who has resigned the management of the Grand Hotel, Rotorua, was presented by the employees with a suit case and collar box.

Mr. Harley Thomas, of the Eastern Extension Cable Company’s service, who has been spending about nine months’ furlough in Christchurch, left for Australia last week on his way to resume duty in the East. Mr. Thomas will be stationed at Batavia, in Java.

Dr. A. G. Clark, of Greenmeadows, Hawke’s Bay, who went to England eleven years ago to complete his studies and who was taken prisoner by the Germans during the war, has returned.

Mr. James Rolleston, who has conducted the Grand Hotel, Auckland, for 15 years, was presented with a substantial cheque by a number of subscribers on the occasion of his retirement. The organising committee consisted of Sir George Clifford, Messrs. T. H. Lowry, A. S. Bankart, and M. M. Louisson. The testimonial was an expression of esteem and admiration from a wide circle, and Mr. Rolleston made a feeling speech in acknowledgement.

Mr. G. Constantinesco, lecturing at the Polytechnic, London, on “Sonies” (the transmission of power by sound or vibration), said it might seem paradoxical to assert that a tube could be heated by cold water, but it had been proved that heat energy could be transmitted by that means. He illustrated how a 2001 b. shell could be ejected 1500 yards by water pressure without any flash or sound. The use of water in a compressed form for driving motors, tunnelling, etc., as a substitute for explosives, was also dealt with.

“Concrete ships are a complete failure. They cost twice as much as steel vessels and take twice as long to build.” Thus Sir G. D. Hunter, head of the great shipbuilding firm of Swan, Hunter’s, in announcing the abandonment of the scheme to build concrete ships on Wearside.

The attention of readers of the “Sporting and Dramatic Review” is directed to an advertisement in another portion of this issue in regard to James L. Potter, who conducts a private inquiry agency in 48 Brunswick Buildings, Auckland. Mr. Potter has 11 years’ service in the detective branch of the New Zealand police to his credit. All kinds of inquiry work is undertaken and investigations are treated promptly, confidentially, and with tact.

Lecturing to Scottish mine managers on his experiences with the mine-tunnelling companies in France, Lieut.-Col. Dale Logan, D. 5.0., said that for months over 30,000 miners were employed underground in France. At the battle of Messines 19 huge mines were exploded simultaneously. This was the work of eight tunnelling companies, and involved the driving of 25,000 feet of gallery. Over 1,000,000 pounds of explosives were used. It was impossible to exaggerate the moral effect of the terrible upheaval on the enemy in the Ypres salient. This was the greatest in the history of mining.

The death occurred at Wellington recently of an army veteran, Mr. David Kennedy, formerly of Dundee, Scotland. As a young man the late Mr. Kennedy was in the 42nd Highlanders, and saw active service abroad. At the Ashanti war he was with that portion of the famous Black Watch Regiment chosen to assist the explorer, the late Sir H. M. Stanley, in his search for Emin Pasha.

Reference to the impending retirement of Mr. James Rolleston. who has been proprietor of the Grand Hotel, Auckland, since 1905, was made at the meeting of the local Licensing Committee. Mr. Rolleston, who has been in ill-health for some years, intends to leave this month for Sydney, where he will in future reside. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., said the committee desired to express regret that Mr. Rolleston had been compelled to leave the hotel. During his management it had attained almost a unique record. The committee had heard it said that it was the best managed and most comfortable hotel in the southern hemisphere. He himself had had personal experience of its home-like comfort, and the consideration that was shown to guests.

Mr. A. H. Mackrell, who has been absent on a lengthy visit to Australia, has returned to Invercargill.

Mr. A. E. Kernot, of Wellington, who spent the winter in the South of France with Mrs. Kernot and two daughters, has left Toulon for Australia by the Ormonde, on his way back to New Zealand.

The reports from Melbourne stating that the Prince of Wales is feeling the effects of the endless round of civic functions which he has had to endure since his arrival in Australia, following upon his strenuous programme in New Zealand, comes as no surprise. As one writer remarks: “Function will telescope into function day and night, until the Prince may well awaken yelling, ‘Help! Help!’ from a nightmare in which funereal mayors, sleek aidermen, and peering councillors close in upon him from all corners of the compass with suffocating compression.”

Mr. S. S. Myers, of Dunedin, who is leaving on a holiday trip to Honolulu, was presented with a well-filled cigar-case and holder by the Otago Football Association.

Mr. W. A. Holman has had a unique compliment paid him by the political journalists of the Sydney Press. In token of long and courteous relations, the journalists offered him a medallion, which the former Premier accepted.

A London message says the Prime Minister’s list of Birthday honours includes Sir James Elliott, engineer adviser to the New Zealand Government, Knight of the British Empire. Sir James Elliott practised as an engineer in New Zealand many years ago.

Mr. H. M. Skeet, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor in Auckland, has been appointed Sur-veyor-General for the Dominion. Mr. Skeet has had 45 years’ service with the department in Taranaki, West Coast, Southland, and Auckland.

General W. Bramwell Booth, Com-mander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army, arrived in New Zealand from Sydney last week, accompanied by his eldest son, Adjutant Bernard Booth, and Commissioners D. C. Lamb, J Lawley, Theodore Kitching, and Staff-Captain Smith. The General is making a tour of the world.

There appears to be an epidemic of changes in Napier hotel proprietors, reports the “Telegraph.” During the last few weeks the leases of the following hotels have changed hands: Railway, Mr. P. Annan having sold out; Central, Mr. W. Burns having purchased Mr. W. E. Hill’s interests; Terminus, Mr. W. E. Hill having purchased the freehold; Taradale, Mr. Hill having transferred his interests to Mr. J. O’Connor. The Victoria Hotel has also changed hands. A similar boom in the sale of Hawke’s Bay hotels is also taking place. Changes are being effected at Havelock North, Porangahau and Ormonclville.

Mr. W. H. Woollams, Auckland, left by the Maheno on a visit to Sydney. General Booth, the Salvation Army commander-in-chief, in conversation with a Wellington reporter, stated that in the very early days of . the war he obtained from the British Government 10,000 suits of khaki at £1 per suit. When the time came for payment the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Austen Chamberlain) suggested that the price, £lO,OOO, should be paid, and himself handed a cheque for £lO,OOO to the general to pay the account. “Was that not a grateful act, which demonstrated that our services' were being recognised,” said General Booth.