A New Zealander In Sydney Town

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 565, 18 January 1929, Page 4

A New Zealander In Sydney Town

(From Our Resident Correspondent.) SYDNEY, January 7. 1920. Quiet New Year's Eve Someone may have held high wassail in Sydney on New Year’s Eve . . . but then, again, they may hot have done so. As far as the city was concerned the infant year was ushered in with customary noises. In a nearby street I saw a bonfire in the middle of the road, and half of Young Italy gathered around it. A few minutes later, however, a small party of firemen, who sped in every direction in motor-cars on the lookout for similar little pranks, had hoses on it. It was really a very quiet celebration. The streets in the city proper were practically deserted. A few feeble cheers emanated from Hyde Park, over which my window looks, at the magic hour of midnight, and the carillon in the University tower rang exultingly —though, to be quite truthful, a trifle flat. In this earnest musical encounter the bells at St. Mary’s Cathedral had much the better of it. Spanish Training Ship Sydney is really charmed with the handsome Spanish 1 oys from the Juan Sebastian de Elcano, King Alfonso’s new training ship, which is at the moment alongside Circular Quay. Commodore Manuel de Mendevil, who can, and does, claim the title of Don, is in command of the vessel which, I believe, will later visit New Zealand. The Spanish boys are due back at Cadiz, where their training ship was launched only last year, about the middle of May. Generally speaking, they are little acquainted with English. Answering the invariable question as to what they thought of Australia, one boy caused some laughter when he replied, “Snappy!” It was the only English word he knew! New Zealand Naval Men Here Three New Zealand officers attached to H.M.S. Dunedin reached Sydney by the Ulimaroa to join warships here on an exchange system. Lieut.-Com-mander Schofield will be attached to H.M.A.S. Brisbane, Lieutenant Y'oung goes to the Australia, now in Sydney, and Lieutenant D. Saunder Cock has been transferred to the Adelaide. Unitarian Minister

The Rev. Albert Thornhill, who is' to take over the ministership of the Liverpool Street Unitarian Church, was a passenger on the same steamer. He will succeed the Rev. George Walters in this charge. Another cleric on the Ulimaroa was the Rev. Brother Qsmonde, who was connected with the Sacred Heart College at Auckland. Wanganui Sculler

A correspondent in the “Sun” says that in all fairness to Jackson, the Wanganui sculler, who was defeated by Pearce the other week, he should be given another race. Having been used to the Wanganui “and other millpond rowing courses of New Zealand” practically all his life, fie says. Jackson had no opportunity of showing his real form in Australian waters. He suggested, therefore, that another race should be rowed, preferably on the smooth waters of the Nepean. By such an arrangement the real prowess of these two fine rowers would be determined. The suggestion, as far as 1 am aware, has not been seriously considered in official quarters. Dutch Professor for New Zealand

The Rev. Dr. Hoogveld, for nine years a professor of European history in Holland, and subsequently associated with the Mill Hill Fathers in London, was an arrival in Sydney this week by the Narkunda. He is on his way to New Zealand, where he proposes to take up missionary work on behalf of his church apiong the Maoris. New Theatrical Venture

Another big theatrical venture took ’definite shape this week when Mar-low-Rolls Theatres was registered as a company with its head office in Sydney. The company is to take over the Empire Theatre, a house with a somewhat chequered history during the .last few months. Nominal capital is set down as £250,000 in £ 1 shares. E. C. Rolls, one of the directors, has been associated with the Fullers’ big productions of recent months. “Rio Rita” was probably his greatest Australian success. George Marlow, another Sydney director, is well known for his Grand Opera House interests. Charles Salon and J. O’Dea, the remaining directors, both have extensive business interests. The new company, I understand, have purchased a site for a theatre in Melbourne. This was the chief difficulty that the former Empire proprietor, Rule Naylor, had to contend with. It was impossible to make a financial success of the venture when he had no Melbourne theatre for his show’s, several of which were presented in a style worthy of the best Australian productions. B.N.S.W. Head Retires

Mr. Oscar Lines, the general manager of the Bank of New South Wales, who retired recently in order to accept a seat on the London board of the bank, was at one time branch manager at Napier. He has had a most distinguished banking career since 1918, when he took over the London managership. Mr. Lines returned to Sydney in 1920 to become chief inspector, but he was not long in Australia before he was dispatched to New Zealand, with which country he first became acquainted in 1893. on an important special mission. He was still in charge of the bank’s affairs in the Dominion when the death of Sir John Russell French necessitated his immediate return to Sydney. Since then Mr. Lines has been the bank’s general manager here. Aucklander’s Appointment

Miss Dora Pay ter, who is well known in journalistic circles in Auckland, has been appointed to the editorship of the “B.P. Magazine,” which is issued by the Burns-Philp Shipping Company. It is an excellently produced little journal, and Aucklanders will wish Miss Payter success in her new venture. Of late Miss Paytei has been sharing a flat at Elizabeth Bay with Miss Freda Sternberg, the well known Australian journalist, and former London correspondent for the “Evening News,” a position to which the Australian writer is soon returning. Back in the Fold

Jock Garden, Communist leader, and ex-minister of religion, having served his four years’ expulsion for opposing a Labour candidate at a State election, is now back in the official Labour fold. When he was expelled, Mr. Garden was regarded as a bitter oppo-

nent of Mr. Lang, but now he is an ardent supporter of the Labour leader. Since the big Labour split he has been the man pulling most strings at tlia Trades Hall. There is no doubt, however, that the more moderate section of the. party, especially in the A.L.P., will view with considerable apprehension this additional link with the Pan-Pacific secretariat. Bound for the East Mr. Justice Reed, accompanied by Mrs. Reed, were recent arrivals in Sydney en route to the East, where the judge will spend portion of his leave. Mr. and Mrs. R. Vernon, of Auckland, arrived by the Ulimaroa, also bound for the Far East. ft is their intention to travel via Singapore and the Straits Settlement to England. Mrs. Vernon is well known, particularly in Dominion cinema circles, as Miss Beatrice Budd, until recently in charge of Fuller-Hayward’s publicity. Mr. Reg. Kelly, who has charge of Paramount’s New’ Zealand publicity, is another visitor to Sydney. Though by no means unknown in Auckland, Wellington is his principal sphere of operations. Returning to E-ngland Joseph Cunningham and Zillah Bateman, who are popularly known in New Zealand, where they toured with their own theatrical company, left for England the other day. It is rumoured that something good in the way of an engagement awaits them in the Homeland. Professor for Washington The University of Washington, at Seattle, recently requested the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to allow Dr. P. R. Cole, of Sydney, the recently-appointed professor of international relations at tlic University of Hawaii, to lecture during his absence from Australia as Carnegie professor. It was suggested that Dr. Cole should leave Honolulu about the end of May to spend a month at the University of Washington. This Dr. Cole has agreed to do. and accompanied by his wife, he will sail by the Aorangi for Honolulu this week. They will pass through Auckland on the liner. Japanese Consul-General Departing Mr. I. M. Tokugawa, the Japanese Consul-General, who has visited the Dominion on several occasions on official business, liar been recalled to his homeland. He has arranged to sail for Japan on Saturday. March 2. It is understood that an important appointment awaits Mr. Tokugawa. His father is Prince Tokugawa president of the Japanese House of Peers. Mr. Tokugawa will be much missed in Australia, as he has made himself an exceedingly popular figure in consular circles. ERIC RAMSDEN.

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