‘Cyclone Mollie' at Lyttelton

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34130, 17 April 1976, Page 22

‘Cyclone Mollie' at Lyttelton

“Cyclone Mollie’’ struck Lyttelton on Tuesday, though many locals may not lune noticed—for this is the term affectionately bestowed by Captain C. VVasielewski, master of the Polish ship Kochanowski. on one of his passengers, Mrs Mollie Forestier-Walker.

Mrs Mollie Forestier- 1 Walker, an Englishwoman, is j one of those rare personalities who circle the globe, I seemingly always in a flurry of activity, leading a glam-j our-tinged life which those' tied to a more sedentary! existance can only envy. A well-known portrait! painter Mrs Forestier-( Walker spends much of hers time rubbing shoulders with the mighty; and the names I of royalty flow thick and] fast as she describes her! work. The reason for her pres- j ence on a relatively! small and obscure Polish cargo ship is to have a much-needed holiday; and; she also finds travel stimu-l lating. She has not put her work aside completely, and while'

in Australia - painted the pm [traits of the Earl of Porta: ilington’s children. The earl, i she says, has settled pcr- ; manently in Sydney and is lin the process of bringing all his art treasures from i Britain. [ On an earlier visit to Australia. Mrs Forestier-Walker painted the seven-year-old [grandson of the then Prime Minister, Mr Harold Helt i Others whose portraits (she has painted include Noel [Coward and Guy Gibson of I "Dam Buster” fame, whose portrait now hangs in the imperial War Museum. I Portrait painting, said Mrs Forestier-Walker, had proved a lucrative business. People still wanted their childrens (portraits painted because they changed so quickly. i Mrs Forestier-Walker trained under another wellknown portrait painter, Pei cival Anderson, in the wc • of England. Successful portrait paint ers, she said, had to have special qualities. As well ■< technique, they had to have a gift for rendering a like

ncss, and had also to like people — to be able to talk to them and “get inside them.” Mrs Forestier-Walker has two studios, one in London and one in Cornwall. She also has a small farm in Wales, where she sometimes escapes to enjoy the mountains. She has come to know mountaineering people wc and said she would love t , paint Sir Edmund JliJlarv some day. ARRIVALS Thursday Rangatira <6 37 am ). 9387, Capt. R. Pugh-Williams, Welling ton (U.S.S.). Union Sydney <7.6 a.m . 4732. Capt R Stewart, Dunedin (U.S.S.). Luka Bode 8.4 a.m). 6159, Dunedin <Guthre\ ) H.M..X.ZS. Inverell <8 59 am , from sea (R.N.Z.N.i. Italian Reefer (4.53 p.m.), 6004, Bluff (Scales). Friday Shin Sakura Mam <9.39 am), 13.082, Wellington i Sea trans). DEPARTURES Thursday Rangatira (8.13 p.m ), *nr.7 Capt Welling Union Sydney <8 28 p m ). 4752 < apt. R. Stewart Wellingtor IU.S.S », Friday Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Straat Colombo, Dunedin, toda Coastal Trader, Auckland. Apr 19. Hawea. Melbourne. April 20. Coastal Trader, Dunedin. Ap-I 21. Hawea, Wellington, April 22. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Fremantle Star. Dunedin, tod* Icenic, Bluff. April 20. Hawea. April 20. H.M.N.Z.S. Inverell, for r*’* April 20. Coastal Trader, Auckland, Api 21. Iron Arnhem. April 21. VESSELS IN PORT Icenic. Cashin Quav No. 1. Fremantle Star, Cashin Quax No Illyric. G p.E Luka Botie. No. 1 Breastwork. Holmdale. No. 3 EaM. Kochanowski Nn. 3 We«» IT MX Z S Inverell No 4 Ea ’ Arnhem. X<» t W*»«’ Italian Reefer No 7 East. Mauhera, Graving Dock..