TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1589, 7 October 1920, Page 34

TOURIST AND TRAVELLER

The death is announced of Mr. R. R. McGregor, one of the earliest residents of Thames. During the boom days he was in business in a large way as a trader, auctioneer, and sharebroker, and later as a gum-buyer. He promoted several mining ventures. Deceased was 81 years of age. * * * * Mr. G. D. Ross, head of the New Zealand and inter-State passenger traffic department of the Union Steam Ship Company’s office in Sydney, is on a visit to his son, Mr. Doug. Ross, of the Bank of New South Wales, Feilding. Father and son served in the great war with the Australian forces.

Viscount Jellicoe will be the fourth naval officer who has occupied the position of Governor of New Zealand. The first naval Governor was Captain Hobson, the first Governor of New Zealand; the -second was Captain Fitzroy, known to science as the inventor of the Fitzroy barometer; the third -was the late Earl of Glasgow; and the fourth is Lord Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet.

“I prophesy,” said a passenger on the Corinthic, “that ,in Lord Jellicoe New Zealand is going to have the most popular Governor it has ever had.”

Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Hamer arrived in Wellington from London, last week on a visit to New Zealand.

Walter P. Fulkerson, banker, of St. Joseph (U.S.A.), is building a row of houses to be rented to families in which there are children. Newly-mar-ried couples also will be allowed to occupy the houses, with the provision that R there are no children in their families at the end of one year’s residence they will be asked to vacate. Whenever a child is born in one of his houses, Fulkerson announced, the rent for that month will be returned to the tenant. The houses are in one of St. Joseph’s most desirable residential districts.

His Majesty the King has been pleased to award the Distinguished Conduct Medal to Corporal T. R. Crocker, 2nd Battalion, Wellington Regiment; Comp. Sergeant-Maor J. H. Foster, 2nd Battalion, Wellington Regiment; Sergeant S- Gaston, Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment, and Company Sergeant-Major W. H. James, Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment. for conspicuous gallantry when in action.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Winstone, of Auckland, left last week on a trip to the Islands.

A visitor to New Zealand at present is Mr. lan Robertson, of the firm of Robertson and Sons, Oban, Scotland. *' * * *

During the visit of the Prince of Wales to Apia, Samoa, LieutenantColonel E. J. Hulbert, of Wellington, New Zealand Mounted Rifles, now of the Samoan Treasury, was decorated by His Royal Highness with the Distinguished Service Order, awarded to him for services in Palestine.

Kirkwood, the golf champion, will leave for England in February. He says he is going Home to play on the historic courses with the world’s best players and “learn something of the game.” He will then enter for the big open championship, but does not hold out much hope of bringing the laurels back to Australia against the host of fine players annually produced in Great Britain, America, and the Continent.

By the departure of Mr. Ern. Sutherland, who has been transferred to the G.P.0., Auckland, Wellington loses a fine all-round athlete (says the “Times”). Mr. Sutherland won the high, long and hop-step-and-jump championships of New Zealand at the last meeting, besides securing several local championships, and won a number of events at the front during his four years’ service. He was also a member of the Wellington Football Club. Prior to his departure Mr. Sutherland was presented by the head office staff of ihe G.P.O. with a travelling rug. & # ❖ ❖ Mr. Lowell Thomas, the American war correspondent, ’was entertainedat luncheon at the Y.M.C.A. in Christchurch by thq New Zealand Club. The president, Mr. A. S. Taylor, presided over a large attendance, and in extending a hearty welcome to the guest and wishing him all success in his New Zealand tour, said the whole of the Dominion was indebted to Mr. Thomas for coming to tell us about the campaign in the Holy Land, of which our own men who took part in it were too modest to speak. Mr. Thomas, who w r as greeted with hearty applause, spoke with appreciation of the personal initiative and resourcefulness of the Anzacs, and said that, as an American, he felt it a very great privilege to be able to tell New Zealand a little about the actions of her sons in the Holy Land.

Dr. J. Stevenson, who has been absent for several months, has returned to Christchurch from Australia. *•» - *

Mr. and Mrs. G. Gould and Miss Gould, of Christchurch, who have been on a visit to Great Britain, came to Auckland from Sydney by the Tahiti, and arrived in Wellington last week.

Major A. S. Wilder, D-5.0., M.C.. of the Wellington .Mounted Rifles, has been mentioned in a despatch forwarded by General Allenby, G.C.M.G., K.C.8., who was Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the war.

While in Wellington attending the Moascar Cup football match, Mr. Alex. Anderson, the well-known motor cyclist, of Palmerston North, had to enter hospital to undergo an immediate operation to his leg. When playing hockey against Wellington representatives on the 15th inst., Mr. Anderson received a nasty knock from the ball, and an abscess subsequently developed.

Mr. H. D. Acland has returned to Christchurch after a visit to Australia. *■* * * Writing from New York in August, Mr. R. 8.. Morris, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, said that he was in the great American metropolis, and did not care how soon he left it. The city was sweltering in a heat wave, and he was writing at midnight with electric fans on each side of him. Since then a cable message had been -received (last week) stating that he was about to leave for Paris en route to Madrid to attend the International Postal Congress.

The old argument concerning the depredations of shags among young trout was revived at the annual meeting of the Otago Anglers’ Association by Mr. W. Morgan, who said that he had counted as many as 23 shags going up the Waikouaiti River of an evening, and had seen them diving into pools and bringing fish out. He suggested that the association should spend portion of its funds in the destruction of shags. Mr. C. A. Wilson stated that the Acclimatisation Society endeavoured to kill off so many every year, but the more they were killed the more they seemed to come back. The society paid 6s. a head, on condition that the birds were shot three miles inland. The ranger said that it was not the'eels but the shags that were the enemy of the trout.

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Stead, Hawke's Bay, have been visiting Auckland.

Mr. C. Hawkes Wilson, sheepfarmer, of Cabbage Bay, Cape Colville, died in Coromandel Hospital from heart failure following on pneumonia. He was the second son of Judge Wilson, of the Native Land Court, and a brother of Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M.

Mr." A. Duncan, traffic manager at Auckland, retired from the railway service last week, after 43 years’ connection with the .department. The members' of the district traffic staff presented him with an oak chair, and presented Mrs. Duncan with a set of Doulton ware.

The King’s Theatre Orchestra, Wellington, made a presentation of a silver cigarette case to Mr. Frank R. Johnstone (’cellist), who left for Melbourne by the Westralia. In making the presentation, Mr. L. Austin (conductor) referred to the good services rendered by Mr. Johnstone during the years he had been connected with the orchestra. Messrs. H. Moschini, C. Martin, H. Oakes, and Sapford (manager of the theatre), also paid, a tribute to the ability of the recipient. Mr. Johnstone, who intends entering into the leather business in Australia, is accompanied by Mrs. Johnstone, who is well known as a teacher of pianoforte, and Mrs. Montague.

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Golding have returned to Rangiora from a trip to Fiji and Samoa. * * * *

Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Healy, Wellington. are leaving on an extended visit to Australia.

Mr. W. Cable, Wellington, and his two daughters returned from a visit to England, America and the Continent by the Corinthic.

Mr. Milne, manager of the Wellington Meat Export Company, left by the Mahia on a holiday trip to Melbourne. He is accompanied by Mrs. Milne.

Captain C. Angus, at one time Government surveyor of ships at Wellington, is on a visit to the southern city. He returns to London shortly.

Mr. T. ’M. Wilford, leader of the Liberal Party, is the first New Zea-land-born leader of the Opposition.

Mr. J- A. Adams, of Bendigo, is on a Visit to his relatives at Upper Hutt. Mr. Adams left New Zealand eighteen years ago.

Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Carver, Wellington, are leaving by the Niagara on a trip to Australia. * ♦ * *

Mr. L- C. Levick, the Union Company’s manager at Lautoka, arrived with his wife by the Ulimaroa from Sydney last week on holiday leave.

Mr. E. H. Wing, of the staff of the Auckland branch of the Union Steam Ship Company, left for the Western Pacific Islands by the Mokoia on a holiday visit. He was accompanied by Mrs. Wing.

Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Trail, of Colombo, are spending six months holiday in New Zealand, and are staying with Captain S. G. Smith and Mrs. Smith, at Day’s Bay, Wellington.

Mr. J. C.iE. Kissling was presented with a set of pipes and a tobacco pouch by his business friends in Gisborne prior to his departure for Palmerston North.

A London message says Sir James Allen ’is visiting France for the purpose of selecting a site for a New Zealand memorial near Flers. Afterwards he yrlil proceed to the Brussels. Conference.

Colonel G. Hall, formerly of the staff of Messrs. Levin and Co., who was attached to the quartermastergeneral’s office in London during the war, returned to Wellington by the Moana.

Dr. D. Mackay, a son of Mr. Neil Mackay, of Dunedin, came out from London as surgeon of the Shaw. Savill and Albion liner Mamari,’ which arrived at Port Chalmers with over 450 immigrants. * * The death has occurred at Greymouth of Mr. Alan A. Adams, for 30 years rector of the Greymouth District High . School. He leaves one son, Captain Alan Adams, who was a noted footballer, and represented Otago and the West Coast many times.

. Mr. P. Chevassus, who is to accompany Senator Millen, the Commonwealth’s representative to the Geneva Conference,-is an English journalist of considerable experience. He had 14 years’ service on the New Zealand press- before the war, and for years after, his discharge from the Army was engaged on the editorial staff of the .London “Times.” He was for some time correspondent in London of the ; French news agency—the Agence Radio of Paris'! '