MAYORESS' FAN MAIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 43, 20 February 1940, Page 10

MAYORESS' FAN MAIL.

SYDNEY, February 15. Three years ago, Miss Constance C3ancy, a young typist, was chosen to be Mayoresa of Paddington, Sydney, for tli* 12-month term of her bachelor uncle, Alderman T. Wbelan, as Mayor. She was the youngest Mayoress in Australia.". ' •< From that time, Miss Clancy has received many letters from correspondents in . many parts of ' the world who had read reprints of the announcement in their. local papers. One was from an 'Indian rajah, who enclosed a photograph of himseJf and suggested that the gift be reciprocated. A namesake, Frank J. Clancy the sheriff and \ tax collector of Jefferson, U.S.A., wrote' to ask whether Missjpiancy was related to his father, John'Clancy. Another namesake, P. J. Clancy, principal of a firm of agents, importers and warehousemen in Dublin, wanted to know if Miss'.Clancy was a relative of "Paddy Clancy, who left Ireland for New -Zealand 65 years ago." But Miss Clancy's most regular correspondent has been Mayor Stephen Oonin, of? Ypsilanto, Michigan. > s

"I was told you can read a newspaper in the light of the moon in Sydney," Mayor Cronin wrote. "Is the moon so bright oyer there. I wish they had sense enough to elect a Mayoress in our city. It might brighten up. the moon over here, too." If ike /' '■