A New Zealander In Sydney Town

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 914, 6 March 1930, Page 14

A New Zealander In Sydney Town

THU SUH’S Sydney Correspondent j SYDNEY, February 25. j Sir Dudley’s Last Holiday For the last week or so the de t'hair family has been staying at Kalua. the beautiful Palm Beach home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hordern, who placed it at their disposal for a last holiday in Australia before relinquishing office. Lady de Chair say 8 that Palm Beach is the most exquisite beach she has ever known, and she is acquainted with many in South Africa, New Zealand, and of course, the majority of the Australian beaches. The other morning I found the Vice-Regal family thoroughly enjoying their holiday in a most informal way; the Governor wore an old straw hat, his lady one of those gigantic creations so popular, and useful, on Sydney beaches; their daughter was reading Strachey’s "Elizabeth and Essex,” and the invariably immaculate A.D.C. son. who spent a good deal of time in New Zealand, had just returned from a tub. A crimson lava-lava was wreathed round his shorts. T Trees for Remembrance Lady de Chair told me that she does not wish her friends to send her flowers when they depart in April. For one thing, the official departure will be by train, as the .Vice-Regal family proposes visiting the Governor of Queensland (Sir John Goodwin) and Lady Goodwin; and secondly, she is particularly anxious that those who intended sending flowers will plant trees and .shrubs instead. Quite proudly Lady do Chair showed me several sprightly young Norfolk pines that she had planted in front of Kuala when they first stayed there five years ago. , The de Chair family will pass I nrough Wellington on their way to England, via San Francisco, early in April. Jonah and the Whale Jonah’s is on the way to Palm Beach, right on a hill top, with the most exquisite views of mile after mile of coastline girt by the blue, the deep blue. Tasman. Jonah's is full of surprises. The sign outside is rather intriguing—a giddy little Jonah step-dancing on the hack of an even more fierce whale than the one in the horrible German Biblical prints that we knew in the days of our youth. Outside the roadhouse is a rather conventional-looking Spanish bungalow. But inside it might be a farmhouse in Devonshire. The furnii ure. the pictures—all ancestral—and i he china have been brought by their owner, the daughter of an English clergyman, from her old rectory home. Perched on the hill that skirts Whale Bay. far below, Jonah's commands a view that extends almost as far soutii as Manly, nearly fifteen miles away. And when the moon rises out. of the Tasman, saffron, orange, or gold, can you blame Alias Sydney and her bean for careering off to Jonah's? Norman Lindsay in Town Madame, more voluble than ever, beetled forward at the Latin Cafe last night, with that mysterious air one invariably associates with the suspected presence of a police spy in the room. I have known Madame practically perform gymnastics behind the chair of some inoffensive person as she signalled her suspicions to me. Dramatically pointing to what is always known as “the top. middle centre” in this popular rendezvous of Sydney's Bohemia, Madame, in a most awed and respectful whisper, said, “Look!” I looked. At the head of the table sat a thin, grey-haired little man. with the most bird-like face I have ever known. The quaint little nose pointing heavenward looked exactly like the beak of an inquisitive sparrow. He laughed and he talked, and he liberally helped his companions from the bottle of Burgundy in front of him. The man as Norman Lindsay. For the famous artist to leave his Springwood retreat. is unusual. For him to dine in public is even more unusual. Hugh AlcCrae. the poet, and Basil Burdett, "ho recently organised Lindsay's exhibition at his Macquarie Galleries, v ere his companions, and Adrian Feint, the illustrator, sat nearby. N.Z. Women in Sydney r f lie Women’s Auxiliary of the New Zealand Association, under the guidance of Airs. S. Hempton, is likely to prove a useful adjunct to the parent 1 ody. At a meeting held at the office o> the New Zealand Government agent i Mr. Blow) during the week, it was uecided to have a New Zealand stall in Martin Place on Soldiers' Day, March 33. New officers elected include:—Airs. W. H. Beard, vice-presi-dent. Miss R. Hill, secretary, and Mrs. ('. Nattrass, treasurer. Holiday in Belgium The Consul for Belgium in New Zealand. M. Armand Nihotte, and his charming wife, made a brief stay at It Macleav Street, before sailing this week by the Norwegian wool steamer Temeraire. Their objective is a holiday in Belgium. Marie Louise and •biles Josef, their two small children, both New Zealand born, are to make tile acquaintance of grandparents in I lie Old World. Arrived by the Orford An arrival by the Orford today from Europe was Mrs. Charles Todd, wife of the well-known New Zealand Prohibitionist, on her way home after a long holiday abroad. Dr. Kathleen Todd, her daughter, and Aloira anil K leen Heggarty, ueices. were also is the party. —ERIC RAMSDEN.