"LACKED DIGNITY"

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 390, 26 November 1932, Page 5

"LACKED DIGNITY"

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GOVERNOR'S TASTE SIR PHILLIP GAME UNDER FIRE IN TRAVEL* 1 BOOK LADY ST. CLA.IR-ERSKINE

— By Telegraph — Copyrlght).

(A. and N.Z. Cables) London, November 14Criticism of the Governor ' of New South Wales, Sir P'hillip Game, and his ta'ste ih conversation r egarding his official dealings with the then Premier, Mr. Lang, is made in "Eore and Aft," an aceount of her travels by Lady Angela St. Claire-Erskine. The publishers, Jarrolds, have suspended the publication, but the manager told the Daily Mail that the suspension was only temporary, as it was "desired to make an alternative of some things, which are really very trivial, but appear immensely important to some people." Lady Angela St. Claire-Erskine said she dined with Sir Phillip Game at Government House, where the dinner lacked dignity, men wore dinner jackets, social precedence was not ob- ' served and formalities "were so mismanaged by an inefficient A.D.G." that she shook hands with Lady Game, thinking she was a lady-in-waiting. She commented upon having to play "boring bridge at twopence ahundred." 'Sir Phillip, she said, had referred to the de Groot (ribboncutting) incident as silly, and that it defeated the ends of the New Guard, which had been to force him to dismiss Mr- Lang. "Now I shall not," she alleged Sir Phillip said. "Red Game" "If he talks like that to everyone it is not surprising that he is called Red Game. Nevertheless the aceusation is founded on flimsy grounds. I was surprised to find that intimate political details restricted to inspired circles in England, were discussed by every class in Australia. "The manicurist was as well-in-formed as the misguided people who rushed to erase their names from the Government House visitors' hook. I regard the action as silly and an insult to His Majesty." The Daily Mail recalled that Lady St. Claire-Erskine, who is 56, had been known to the public for many years as Lady Angela Forbes. She was the daughter of the fourth Earl of Rosslyn, sister of the present Earl, and aunt of the Duke of Sutherland. She married Lieutenant-Colonel James Stewart Forbes in 1896 and divorced him in 1906. In 1930 she changed her name to Lady ClaireErskine. She conducted a dress-mak-ing establishment in the West End for some years after the war as Lady Angela Forbes. Lady Angela St. Claire-Erskine, earlier in the year visited New Zealand and spent some time in Rotorua and Taupo- In the latter place she distinguished herself by the informality of her dress. Apparently her ladyship insist upon formal dress only on formal occasions.