TOURIST & TRAVEL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1590, 14 October 1920, Page 32

TOURIST & TRAVEL.

There are 32 lighthouses scattered along the New Zealand coast. «♦. ♦ • •

Mr. A. Boyle, chairman of the Canterbury Jockey Club, returned last week from a trip to America.

; Mr. E. Short, of Feilding, who went to America on a health trip, returned by the Niagara.

Mr. Harry Shove has been appointed assistant general secretary of the Auckland Y.M.C.A. - « ♦ * *

Mr. James Bennie, the Wellington .architect, has returned from a trip to America.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Twiss, Wellington, have returned from a trip to Raratonga. ’

The Rev. Dr. Gibb, of Wellington, and Mrs. Gibb, returned by the Niagara from Britain.

Mr. H. W. Corry, colonial director for the C. and D. Line in Australasia, whose headquarters are in Sydney, is on a visit to Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Begher, of Levin, have sold theft property to Mr. Port, of Wellington, and leave for England shortly.

Mr. James Webber, of Napier, is leaving New Zealand at the end of the month to join the Osterley at Sydney, en route for England. **♦ * .

Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Lissington, who have been residents of Karori for the past 23 years, are taking up residence at Te Awamutu.

Mr. E. A. Tanner, who has been on a business trip to England and America, returned to Wellington last week.

Lieutenant Stuart Seddon, Royal Field Artillery ‘ and son of the late Mr. R. J. Seddon, returned to New Zealand by the Niagara last week.

Whakatane has decided to erect a war memorial in the shadow of the Sacred Rock, at a cost of about *£2200.

Mr. W. E. Wilkes, Mayor of Richmond, Nelson, who has been on an extended visit to Australia, Java, and Singapore, returned to New Zealand by the Moeraki.

Mr. E. L. Eastgate, late engineer at the Melbourne branch of the British General Electric Company, has been appointed manager of • the company’s business in New Zealand. * * * *

Sir James Burns, of Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., arrived in Wellington by the Marama from San Francisco, and left for Sydney by the Moeraki. He was accompanied by his daughter.

The death has occurred in Wellington of Mr. George MacMorran, formerly headmaster of the Terrace School and ex-president of the New Zealand Educational Institute, aged 66 years.

In his air stunting over Wellington one day Captain Russell took as a passenger Miss Dorothy Bulkley, who thus achieved the distinction of being the -first lady in Wellington to go through a full stunting programme.

The staff of the Auckland City Council met Mr. H. W. Wilson, the retiring town clerk, at the Council Chambers, and presented him with a gold Rotherham watch, gold sovereign case, and a purse of sovereigns.

It was stated at the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society’s annual meeting that the prospects for angling for the coming season were"brighter than they had been for a number of seasons past. The rivers had not been nearly so much in flood, consequently the fish had not been so much disturbed. ’

Writing from London, Mr. W. J. Stratton, of Hastings, says: “Things are very dear in England. Whisky is lOd. a thimbleful, so that a ‘double’ is always called for at Is. Bd. Bass’ beer is B|d. per glass, butter 4s. per pound, and sugar Is. Bd. per pound, when you can buy it. Everything else you can buy at high prices, but sugar, butter, and whisky can only be got occasionally.”

The Commonwealth Government has acquired another timber forest for a total outlay of £48,500, situated in Victoria, for the purpose of making homes for war service men.

An Eskimo dog which accompanied Captain Scott’s last expedition to the South Pole has been presented to the Canterbury Museum by Dr. H. T. D. Acland, of Christchurch.

New Zealanders would learn with interest, said Sir James Burns, that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha intended to re-establish direct communication with New Zealand during the next few months, the previous (cargo) service having been interfered with by the war. The whole of the Northern Pacific seemed to be very much alive and prosperous in every way.

A visitor to New Zealand is Mr. G. Young, manager for Sociedad Explotodoic de Tierra del Fuego, a concern that runs 1,250,000 sheep in Chili. Mr. Young’s mission is to buy Corriedales chiefly, and he has secured many thousands of pounds; worth from the leading breeders of. the Dominion.