SON OF GOVERNOR COMING TO AUCKLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 16

SON OF GOVERNOR COMING TO AUCKLAND

SUB-LT. G. DE CHAIR, R.N. SERVED IN IRON DUKE Sub-Lieutenant G. de Chair, R.N., the elder of the two sons of the Governor of New South Wales, has arrived in Sydney. He has been transferred from the Mediterranean Squadron to the New Zealand station, but expects to be able to spend about a, month in New South Wales before leaving for Auckland. Tall, fair and good-looking, the young officer is remarkably like his father in looks and in manner. “Oh, I like the Australians immensely,” he said to an interviewer from the “Sydney Morning Herald.” “One cannot help liking people who are so friendly themselves, and courteous, too. I think Perth, Adelaide, and Melbourne are fine cities.” MEDITERRANEAN EXPERIENCES Speaking of his experiences in the Mediterranean, he mentioned that about the time of the assassination of the Sirdar he was expecting to be appointed to the command of a gunboat. “I won’t say that I was about to be appointed,” he said, “but I was hoping to be appointed. However, I broke my collarbone playing ‘Rugger.’ We used to have some good games against the members of the English colony. In one game we had three collarbones and two ribs broken. That was a good game. Everybody enjoyed themselves.” Sub-Lieutenant de Chair, who will join H.M.S. Laburnum, came to Australia in the Orama, from which he disembarked at Melbourne, and he regarded it as a happy coincidence that his arival at the home of his parents, whom he had not seen for four years, should be on his father’s birthday. Sir Dudley is 63 years. As a senior midshipman, Sub-Lieu-tenant de Chair served in the Iron Duke when it was attached to the Mediterranean Fleetl for two years, and later did duty on destroyers.