MR JOHN FOSTER FRASER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9629, 22 October 1909, Page 5

MR JOHN FOSTER FRASER.

There is no man in or out of Eng-> land to-day who has achieved so much distinction as a journalist, a writer of books, and a lecturer, in so short a period of time as Mr John Foster Fraser, writes a'contemporary, who has made his mark, And probably a fortune, in a com • paratively few years. He has wandered all over the earth; has written in the best known magazines in the Old World; and has produced eight of the most popular books of travel now in circulation. It is a remarkable result of twenty-five years wort by a man who does not partictil&rft me Jot work, as work, and who has no overweaning desire to be considered merely "a writing fellow." Mr Fraser has come to spent} four or five months in and New Zealand to study the political, social and industrial conditions of the country, with the ulterior purpose of writing a book on the lines of his two moat successful works, "America »t Work," apd "Canada as it Is," but while collecting the material at first hand, he is conducting a lecturing tour under the direction of Mr Carlyle Smyths, the son of the much travelled Mr R. S. Smythe, Mc Fraser -is. nuking ' an - cftpresS tour ttroujrh New Zealand in the hope that fee will be able to>etarn to England before the next 'General Elections, as he intends to offer himself as a o. candidate in.'.' the Conservative in- 1 terest -for a seat in the House Of Commons Mr Foster Fraser will arrive in Wasterton on Wednesday next, a'/d will lecture on "Across SlHeria, ind a Dash through Manchursa>' '" "the evening, when the Mayor will take the chair. On Thursday evening the lecture will be "Americe Up-up date,'* when Mr C. E. Daniell will preside. The box office will be opened at Miss A. E. Rive's. Queen Street, on Monday morning next, at 9 o'clock.