A New Zealander In Sydney Town

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 6

A New Zealander In Sydney Town

(From THE SUN'S Correspondent.) November 30. As is the case in New Zealand just ! now. speculation is rife as to who will ! receive the political plums of Cabinet ! Office. One of the first matters that engaged the attention of the Prime Minister, Mr. M. Bruce, after The elections Mas the reconstruction of the Federal Ministry. The appointment of Mr. Gullett to the important post of Trade and Customs came as a complete surprise, especially in vi§w of the fact that this Victorian member wan an exceedingly candid critic of the Bruce-Page Administration last session. Since the death of Mr. Pratten. whose visit to New Zealand to arrange a reciprocal tariff last year was not particularly successful, Mr. Bruce has administered these portfolios. Twenty years ago Mr. Gullett was night-roundsman on the Sydney ‘ Morning Herald.” He comes of a family well-known in the newspaper world. Isobel Gullett, his sister, j is a member of the “Sun” staff. Louise Lovely Marries Again j All the essentials for a good movie drama were in the oiling when Louise I Lovely, the former Australian movie star, married Bert Cowan, cinema l manager, in Melbourne during the week. Louise was formerly the wife of W. H. Welch, with whom she returned from America a few years ago, and under whose direction she made one or two pictures. All arrangements had been made for her marriage to Air. Cowan when it was discovered that she had not fully divorced Husband No. 1. A hurried application at j the Sydney Divorce Court met with i a sympathetic reception when it was | explained that Louise was anxious to I leave for the United States with her j new husband. Usually successful petitioners may not marry for 14 days j after the decree absolute. But the happy couple took a chance, and be- . sides, there was no opposition on the ! part of Air. Welch. The actress was ; originally Louise Carbasse. Her mother, a Frenchwoman, for many years conducted a well-known Hunter : Street restaurant. To See the Tests Mr. and Airs. F. IT. Chapman, the ■ parents of the English cricket captain, j have arrived in Sydney to witness their j son—at least they sincerely hope so— j lead the Lion to victory in the test. They were last in Australia when Gil- | ligan led the Englishmen, and Percy j Chapman was a member of the team. • His father’s cricket has only been suffi- j ciently good for a second-class county. | An uncle, who was a master at a Mel- ; bourne school in the ’eighties, was an i international threequartcr. Sheep For Russia Australians are indignant at the large i consignments of their prize Alerino sheep being shipped to Russia. About 2,000 left on the Norwegian motorship Tricolor this week to the order of the Soviet Government. They are on their way to Port Said for transhipment to a Black Sea port. The purchasers were the Textile Export Company, one of the largest wool-buying organisations in Russia. Mr. F. B. S. Falkiner, nut an infrequent visitor to New Zealand, sold 600 first-class ewes to these buyers. In reply to a protest in the Assembly, Air. Bavin said the Government had the transaction under consideration. Australia very much fears that Soviet Russia, in years to come, may be a serious competitor in the wool markets of the world. Cvr,scrvaLfli..n's Registrar Nciv Zealanders who have studied at the Sydney Conservatorium will learn with regret that the registrar. Air. N. L. Salmon, has severed his connection with that institution. His new position is chief clerk in the Education Department. Frank Hutchens and Alfred Hill, both of whom once resided in the Dominion, are professors at the Conservatorium. Played For Isador Duna^n A newcomer on tlie Tivoli bill this week is Gregory Ivanoff, the violinist, who is appearing with the “Midnight Frolics” (due very shortly to cross the | Tasman to New Zealand). Ivanoff is j a brother of Zacliaravitch, who visited the Dominion some years ago, one of the best known of European violinists. Gregory lias been reading Isadora Duncan’s recently published “Life,” he j tells me, with much enthusiasm. He was a member of the orchestra that I played for the American dancer at her first Aloscow performance. Newspaper Heads Confer Air. Warwick Fairfax, director of the j Sydney “Morning Herald,” who succeeded to the bulk of his father's (the late Sir James Fairfax) estate of almost a million, is making his debut at the newspaper proprietors’ conference at Canberra this, week. Only 26, and destined to be the head of the greatest newspaper enterprise in the Southern Hemisphere, Mr. Fairfax is a young man to be envied. Other well-known newspapermen at Canberra include: Charles T. Harris, Sydney “Morning Herald”: A. C. C. Holtz, Melbourne “Argus”; H. Campbell Jones and Fordyce Wheeler, “Sun”; G. 11. Goddard, "News”; Keith Murdoch, Aleibourne “Herald”; (he visited New Zealand with the Prince of Wales); and Vol Alolesworth, ex-M.L.A., Smith’s Newspapers. The other representatives are from the more distant States. Long As a Publisher Sydney Long, A.R.E., whose work as a painter and an etcher has made him almost as well-known in New Zealand as he is in his native Australia, is making his debut as a publisher. His first publication is a volume of etchings, which will be issued from the Attic Studio, Callaghan House, George Street, in a few days. Air. Long is the president of the Australian PainterEtchers' Society. When he occupied a studio in King Street with John Longstaff, recently knighted, many years ago, both had a struggle to make a living. Persona I Airs. Ivane, wife of the Clerk of the House of Representatives in Wellington. is in Sydney visiting Air. and Airs. Eric Baume. Mrs. Baume, incidentallv, is in hospital at the moment. For many months past her health has been far from satisfactory. Another Wellingtonian visiting Sydney is Airs. Van Staveran, who is staving with her sister, Airs. Jack Mendelssohn, formerly Vera Caselberg, from the Wairarapa, at Darling Point. Airs. G. D. Greenwood, of Christchurch, left by the Tahiti, on her return to the Dominion. Sir Hugh and Lady Poynter were passengers by the same vessel for Wellington. Son of the famous R.A., Sir Hugh is a cousin of Air. Baldwin, the British Prime AI inis ter, and of Rudyard Kipling. He is the Australian representative of Baldwin’s, Ltd., the iron and steel firm. Air. Justice Cantor, who spent his last holiday in walking the Milford track, is off to Java for the approaching vacation. Air. Nelson, AI.Iy-C-» of Samoa, is staying at the Hotel Australia, with his daughter. His plans are indefinite. Commissioner Hay passed through Sydney on his way to Europe from New Zealand. He is to participate in tlie High Council of the Salvation Army, the body that will decide the controversial problem ©X General Booth'* successor.