MIGRANT BOY'S MONOCLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18942, 13 February 1925, Page 6

MIGRANT BOY'S MONOCLE.

NOT IN THE PHOTOGRAPH. HAT LIKE THE PRINCE OF WALES. [from ouh own correspondent.] SYDNEY. Feb. 5. A common spectacle at the Randwick races, or at least at the meetings there which attract the cream of society, is that of a woman who wears a monocle. Regardless of the fact that she is the cynosure of all eyes the lady of the monocle moves without restraint among the crowds. It is more difficult, however, to picture a Dreadnought boy—the better class of English boys who are coming out on to the land here under what is known as the Dreadnought scheme of migrationaffecting a single eyeglass. According to one of the newspapers, a Dreadnought boy, on his arrival in Sydney, was quite troubled in mind when asked by a press photographer to join a group of his companions for r. photograph. Ho had lost his monocle. While being photographed the boy clung tenaciously to his bowler hat, which, he claimed, was an exact replica of the bowler worn by the Prince of Wales. "Of course," said this young gentleman, "I have sepn farms in England, but this afternoon I would like to go to the nearest farm in Sydney to see a bit of Australian life." He seemed a little surprised when he was informed that he would have to go quite a long distance to see the Australian bush. Perhaps he had in mind the goanna and kangaroo farms, and the big estates at Circular Quay, that the diggers used to talk of in their frivolous moments to innocents in the Old Country.