BORN AT SEA

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 15

BORN AT SEA

ITALIAN CONSUL'S SON

A great number of Members of the lalian community in Sydney were at the wharf when the Themistocles ! arrived on November 22 to meet the new Consul-General for Italy, Mr. Paul Vita-Finzi, and Mrs.. Vita-Finzi, and their week-old son, who was born at sea during a storm just after the ship left Adelaide, states, the Sydney "Morning Herald." ■ - ■

"He was to have arrived in Sydney," said Mrs. Vita-Finzi, looking at'her tiny son who lay wrapped in his copious shawl. The unexpected arrival of the baby caused great excitement, on the ship, and he created a new;' experience in the lives of both the ship's surgeon and nurse, who, since he wa3 born, have had their time well occupied. -

The parents have called their little son Ennio, after the Latin poet, as Mr. Vita-Finzi is a keen student of' -the classics. The baby has an all-white trousseau, a compromise of his mother's, who said.of course, she did not know whether he would be a boy or girl, and so could not have either pink or blue. One of his robes was a gift from the wife of .the Italian Ambassador in Buenos Aires, where Mr. and Mrs. Vita-Finzi went to live immediately after their marriage in Rome a year ago. ■'■...•

Before her marriage Mrs. Vita-Finzi was Miss Nadia Tuschmalov; shewas'a Russian, but left the country during the Revolution, and has since become an Italian citizen. Both Mr. and Mrs. Vita-Finzi speak several languages.Jbut they are beginners in English, haying studied the language only\since 4hey left the Argentine.

A toy baby Koala • "to "-whicH> ■■ was pinned the message, "Welcome to: a little Italian baby from a HJttle" Australian baby," was taken down to the ship by Madame Vitali, who also took a sheaf of gladioli and-pink arid white carnations for Mrs. ,yita-Fihij.v Among others who- welcomed th^ newcomers were the-Acting-Consul' General "for Italy, Commander .Vitalr, : Mr. .anJi;Mrs. S. Morocco, Prince del Drago, Count Pietrasanta, Dr. • Baretta',;'' V'Stgnora Bianchi, Mr. and Mrs. ;* L/'Yonna, Signora L. Gariola. ' ':;*-'' ?