VICTORIA'S NEW GOVERNOR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15303, 26 August 1920, Page 3

VICTORIA'S NEW GOVERNOR.

\ (Received August 26, 9.40 a.m.) , . ..' LONDON, Aug. 24. V ; . '". Earl iStradbroke, the new. Governor • of Victoria, interviewed at Henham Hall, said he had seen much of Australian sol- ' diers and had learned to admire and appreciate them. He had converted' Henham Hall into a war hospital and. many Australians had passed through it. He / would be eager to visit the country districts of Australia;, because he was much interested m live stock, for which . he : had won many prizes m England, ■ not-, ably for Suffolk Punches and: Red* s 7 polled cattle. A relative bfWs introdiiced Suffolk Punches into Australia. ' He was aboard the Arabia when she was. torpedoed ' m the Mediterranean m November, 1916, and was picked up m a lifeboat hy the. City of Marseilles. When asked if he was interested- in sport, the Governor pointedont that his ancestor, [Admiral. Rous, had helped to introduce .the lunglish. thoroughbred ir-to Australia and had given his name to several places, the Oountv.of Rous, m New South Wales. Stradbroke' Tsland was named after members of the family m,theea% days of Australia. Admiral Rous was a member of the Parramatta Jockey Club. - One of his importations, Grey Emigrant/was still famous iri- An*, trahan sporting annals: YLord -Stradbroke- mentioned/ that Henham Hall had received many' impolite attentions from brerman* air and sea Taidsi A Zeppelin scattered 23 Mrnbs m April, ?1915 * loiA „ A ,9« r ™ ari ' crui^ r m JahuaM" 1916 fired 40 shells m the neighbor^ I' of^the Stradbro^e estate.— A. and^Z.