[Editor: This item, regarding Thomas Richard Roydhouse, is an extract from the “Social Chat of the Day” section of The Newsletter: An Australian Paper for Australian People (Sydney, NSW), 10 October 1914.]
[Mr. Thomas Roydhouse]
Mr. Thomas Roydhouse, for many years editor of the “Sunday Times,” has contributed a valuable article to a Sydney daily on the War Aspect to Australians. He was the chief promoter of the British Empire League, and the first to make a religion out of our national defence.
To Mr. Roydhouse is owing much of the interest taken in boy scouts, girl aids and the inauguration of a Red Cross Society.
Mr. Roydhouse was in delicate health and went for twelve months to Europe. On his return he went farming in N.Z., but has lately returned to a journalistic career in the Dominion.
Source:
The Newsletter: An Australian Paper for Australian People (Sydney, NSW), 10 October 1914, p. 5
Editor’s notes:
Dominion = (in the context of the British Empire) one of the British Dominions (Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa), being those countries of the British Empire which were self-governed
girl aids = members of the Girl Aids organisation (which was later renamed the Girl Guides)
N.Z. = (abbreviation) New Zealand
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