The cover of the latest edition of the above magazine features Anzac Biscuits and a tasty Pavlova Sponge ( named after the Russian ballerina ) decorated with added modern Kiwi Fruit (actually Chinese ) pieces - items of common cultural interest .
It came as a surprise to read that the 1949 design for the Royal Tour of NZ stamp , which did not eventuate because of the king's poor health, featuring the Treaty House at Waitangi, erected in 1835, had first been built in Sydney from Australian timber.
The monument on the cover is a New Zealand Maori War memorial in Hobart ,Tasmania, erected in l850.
The call to visit New Zealand is from a l930s window display in Sydney for the Union Steamship Line .
Apart from the eye-catching cover, the journal , as usual, has articles of great interest such as Van Diemen's Land ( Tasmania ) 1838-1858; New South Wales prisoner photographs ,C1870-l930; Looking for Kiwis in Australia.
Under the heading Kiwi orphan,Australian entrepreneur , there is a well illustrated article about Nora Isolda Hurse, born in March 1913, at Te Puke , in the Bay of Plenty, orphaned at an early age, nicknamed Swanee ,because of the shape of her neck .
On moving to Australia , after her third marriage, under the name Nora Burnett, she set up the first agency for people in films, stage , radio and television . At one stage she had 60 top radio actors under exclusive contract . The writer of the article ,on a visit from New Zealand to see Aunty Swanee , who lived at Kings Cross, became an extra on the film set of They're a Weird Mob , from the comic novel by John O'Grady,about Italian journalist Nino Culotta who comes to Australia to write a series about the country for Italians wanting to emigrate here.
The small part the woman had on the film set involved pretending it was a beautiful day at Bondi , leaping about in the waves, when it was actually freezing .Mrs Burnett managed a concert party which entertained soldiers in Japan and Korea during the Korean War in l952.She retired to the Gold Coast ,often went to the casino, died in 2002.
