MIGRANT BOY’S MONOGLE.

Shannon News, 20 February 1925, Page 1

MIGRANT BOY’S MONOGLE.

HAT LIKE THE PRINCE OF WALES. SYDNEY, Fqb. 5. A common - spectacle at the Randw.ick races, or at least at the meetings Ui ere which attract the cream of society,. is that of a woman who wears a monocle. Regardless the fact that she is the cynosure of all eyes the lady of the monocle moves without restraint among the crowds. It is. more difficult, however, tjo picture a Dreadnought hoy—the hetter class of English .boys who are coming out on to ’the land here under what is known as the Di’eadnought scheme of migra-tion-affecting a single eyeglass. According to one of the newspapers, a Dreadnought hoy, on his arrival in Sydney, was quite troubled in mind When asked by a press photographer to join a group of his companions for % photograph. He had lost his monocle. While being photographed the boy clung tenaciously tQ his bowler hat, Which, he claimed, was an exact replica of the bowler worn by the prince of Wales. "Qf course,” said this young gentleman, “I have seen farms in England, but this afternoon I would like to ; go to. the nearest farm in Sydney to see a bit of Australian life.” He seemed a little surprised when he was - informed that he would have to go quite a long distance tQ see the Australian bush. Perhaps he had in minds the goanna and kangaroo farms and the big estates at Circular Quay, that the Diggers used to talk of m their’ frivolous moments to innocents in the Old Country.