LORD FORSTER

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue XXXXI, 16 June 1920, Page 8

LORD FORSTER

A KEEN SPORTSMAN.

Si CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT

(Received June 16, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 14. Lord Forster, the new GovernorGeneral of Australia, is a keen golfer, and Ins handicap is plus two. He is an ardent yachtsman, and hopes to indulge in yachting ;n Australia, especially in Sydney Harbor, which he longed to see. He is an enthusiastic hunter, and is considered to be one of the best game shots. He has not played football because he was hurt in his schooldays. He looks forward to paricipating in the delights of surfing. He has driven, his own motor car ever since motor cars existed. He

is 'nterested in modern, farming methods, and possess country properties in Kent -and Hampshire. Lord Forster is not so keenly interested in racing as in sports caHng for physical prowess. He never owned racehorses, but attends Ascot, and looks forward to the wonderful spectacle of the Melbourne Cup. He took honors in the degree of law at Oxford. He was a civil member of the Claims Commission stat-'oned at General Headquarters in France during war t'me until the Coalition Government was formed, when he was appointed financial secretary to the War' Office. His only two sons were killed ii?1, the war—the elder, who was an infantryman, in the first battle of the A'sne, in 1914, and the younger, who was with the Soots Greys, when, the cavalry were advancing on Le Cateau, in October, 1918, where the Australians fought their last "battle.