COUNTESS IN SYDNEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 28

COUNTESS IN SYDNEY

DISTINGUISHED VISITOR NEWSPAPER WOMAN Potts Point has been giving itself additional airs all this week, states a Sydney paper. For, living at 55 Victoria Street, the new Catholic Women’s Hostel, is a really live Countess. She is Countess de Menerene St. Pierre, of Brittany, and a cousin to Count d’Yanville, secretary of the Eucharistic Congresfe, and now ill in St. Vincent’s Hospital. She arrived last week, and went straight to the new hostel in Victoria Street. She is here as a newspaper woman to report for a number of French papers on the congress. A much-travelled and cultured lady, she knows Canada well, though she has never before seen Australia. She brings a message from Chanoine Cornette, founder of the Catholic Scout movement in France, to the boys in Australia. For the Countess is keenly interested in the Scout movement, and will read a paper on the subject at the womens conferenc to be held in Sydney during congress week. In 1906 she visited Canada, and took part in a shooting expedition in Athabasca, at the invitation of Monsignor Grouard, Bishop of that diocese. She is a member of all the Celtic societies in Brittany, and has great war service to her credit. But, alas, the war played havoc with the lady’s private fortune, a fate that befell too many of the same rank. The Countess will spend some of her time in Sydney at the Sacred Heart Convent, Rose Bay, where she will renew her friendship with the

Mother Superior, an old friend of hers from school days.