[Editor: This item, regarding Thomas Richard Roydhouse, is an extract from the “Musical Notes” section published in The Newsletter: An Australian Paper for Australian People (Sydney, NSW), 9 February 1918.]
Musical Notes
Among visitors to Sydney is Mr. T.R. Roydhouse, who since giving up the “Sunday Times” and “Referee,” of which he was editor, has been farming in New Zealand and conducting a newspaper there.
He was the first man seriously to take up the cause of Empire building in Australia in his paper and it was through him that boys were taught to know and love their country. He encouraged all literature that taught them the value of the land of their birth, and he encouraged also the formation of boy scouts and first aids, which have done so much to prepare volunteers to fight for their country and women to take up war nursing.
Mr. Roydhouse has the grateful remembrance of hundreds of friends of the “Sunday Times,” which was, in those days, a family paper of great value in the home.
Source:
The Newsletter: An Australian Paper for Australian People (Sydney, NSW), 9 February 1918, p. 9
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