TITLED JACKEROO

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 March 1926, Page 7

TITLED JACKEROO

EARL SEEKS EXPERIENCE. The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire should be a man of many parts by the time he reaches man’s estate. He has already qualified as a “jolly” (soldier and sailor, too), having had experience at sea and in the military. Now he is doing the rounds of Sydney prior to embarking on a jackeroo’s career on a farm on the North Coast of New South Wales. When he paid his first visit to Sydney. the Earl was a tar-stained, rawboned apprentice on the clipper Mount Stewart, commanded by Captain A. McColm, one of few surviving sailor-men who never disgraced his calling by steamboat sailing. But, when the clipper again made the shores of England Jack Howard — that is his plain family name —swallowed the anchor and again became the Earl of Suffolk in London’s West End. The idea of a short spell at soldiering did not please the Earl or his mother, and the desire for travel again becoming uppermost in the minds of both —Australia was considered. In the meantime, Captain McColm had retired from the salt water, and taken on a mixed farm and sawmilling concern at Kendall, north of Port Macquarie. Sawing wood and milking cows might be considered plebeian by most titled ladies, but the mother of the Earl of Suffolk apparently had other views. So tke Earl is in Australia to become a, cow and cut-wood cockie for an indefinite period. And Captain McColm is in Sydney to steer him along to the scene of the latest phase of his “colonial” education as a jackeroo. In the Hotel Australia the newchum was the Earl of Suffolk. CTp north among the cows and corn he will probably he plain Jack Howard once more.