AN APPRECIATION

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 50, 31 March 1930, Page 5

AN APPRECIATION

VISITOR SPEAKS HIGHLY OF NORTH ISLAND. . . Mr Hcmpstock, who was controller of the Post Ofiice Savings Bank in - London, United Kingdom, retired from hi§ position on December 31, 1929, and has since' then been travelling round the world, He came out hy'the Orient liner, Orfprd,,- and, touching at Australian p'orts, endeavoured to see as much of that eountry as he could in the available time. He was surprised at the beauty of Ihe Blue Mountains and enjoyed his time /on Australian soil very much. ( Arriving in New Zealand, Mr Hempstock went to Rotorua, via Te Puke, and spent much pleasant- timo viewing the wonders of our thermal regions. Mr Hempstock, who thought Wairakei more wonderfui tllan Rotorua, regards the thermal regions of New Zealand as being the most extraordinary place on'e could ftnd. He was shown over most of the places of interpst and particularly femembered being told of the eruntion of Tarawara. . ; Mr Hempstock, who was spending a week iu Havelock' at tlie residence of Mrs E;1 AHen. ,of Lucknow road, remarked on the difference between the fcemperatures registered liere hy day and by night, and stated that in Uonrdon and in England generally tjie difference was not so nnticeahle, Mr 'Hempstock will Tiot have time to vjsit the South Island, and. returning to vAnckland via New Plyrnouth ,and the Waitomo caves, will sail for Can ada bv the Niagara, and is due to be in England on June 13. One object of this gent.leman's visit here was to see how the C.EJVLS. is in New Zealand/, for he is very interested m that society. - , ,