A New Zealander In Sydney Town

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 865, 8 January 1930, Page 10

A New Zealander In Sydney Town

THE sun’s Sydney Correspondent SYDNEY, January 2. Lord Stonehaven’s Term Expiring

A proposal that the term of office of Lord Stonehaven as GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth should be extended for a year, is receiving serious attention in some Labour quarters. Lord Stonehaven, however, j is understood to be against any ex- j tension of his term, which, under orainarv circumstances, should close in February. I heard him address the Highland Society of New South \\ales | at luncheon on New Year’s Day, and , the Governor-General said he would j usher in the next year at Ury, his j Scottish home on the Aberdeen coast. Lost Maori Girl The Akarana Maori Association, which has as its aim the welfare of the Maori people, has been unduly auxious of late concerning a Maori girl believed to have been deserted by her parent in Sydney. On making inquiries, however, at the detective office, I find that she could hardly be described as a girl, and certainly was not Maori. She gave her name as Betty Gaberoo, said she was the daughter of an Indian, and her age was 24. Presumably, she had lived in New Zealand for some time. A family offered to take care of the young woman, and since then the police have'not heard of her. An official reply will be dispatched to the association by the police-woman, Miss Armfield, who was in charge of the case. Quiverful of Australians During the week X heard of an extraordinary quiverful of young Australians at Beecroft. Numbering 15, they range in ages from 28 to 4 years. There is only one daughter in the home of this Beecroft carrier and his wife, and the mother, noble soul, has never known the luxury of any other domestic help. She still has to plan for a family of 12 —a task that would appal many a modern housewife. Ou eight of the children the husband and wife have collected the baby bonus of £5 a child. All, of course, are Australian born. Has New Zealand a record to beat this? This remarkable mother said to me with a laugh, that if she did not receive her reward in this world, she certainly expected it in the next! Oscar Ashe’s Book Advance copies of Oscar Ashe’s book of theatrical reminiscences which have reached Sydney, make extremely interesting reading. Probably the greatest producer of his type—and certainly in bulk —that the theatre has known, this much-travelled Australian has also the distinction of probably losing more fortunes than any other member of the profession. J. C. Williamson executives in Sydney still smile, wryly, when they recall the bills that Asche made the firm responsible for during his last stay in Australia. If he wanted champagne in a certain scene, he insisted that nothing but a good imported French brand would suffice. He would have nothing of that invariable substitute—dry ginger ale. Mabel Gibson In Hollywood Mention of the stage brings to mind the fact that I recently heard news of Mabel Gibson, the sweet-faced Huguette of “The Vagabond King,” mid heroine of many a Gilbert and Sullivan romance in Australia and New Zealand. On arrival at Dos Angeles, after a stay in the movie colony at Hollywood, Miss Gibson joined Mr. Guy Bates Post for one of his dramatic productions, and is now on tour with him. ERIC RAMSDEN.