Page 7 - Lansdowne Gardens Newsletter Autumn 2018

7 LANSDOWNE NEWS, AUTUMN 2018

Happy Birthday

We wish the following residents
a very Happy Birthday:

March
4 March Lynette M.
5 March Adele M.
8 March Gwen B.
8 March John W.
15 March Joan S.
16 March Noel L.
20 March Koula D.
21 March Joan L. Meet Howard Halsted
26 March Veronica P.
27 March Eileen S. Howard was born in the country in the village of Garah, 32 miles from
27 March Patricia B. Moree. This was when the “land WAS the land”. The family had no
water nor sewerage but the home was a warm family environment.
April Howard is one of four boys and a girl. His father was a stock and
1 April Philip T. station agent.
2 April Sylvia W. The boys were educated at St. Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill from the
5 April Mary N. age of 12 years onwards and Howard’s sister was at Monte St. Angelo,
8 April Margaret M. North Sydney. When he was 15 years old, Howard began his career
10 April Dawn S-D. with the Bank of New South Wales, at Ashford near Inverell. He began
his working life as a teller in that bank.
12 April Elizabeth G-G.
17 April Gwen L. Despite being encouraged to stay with the Bank by Robert White, the
28 April Prudence P. then Managing Director, with the encouragement that “you will do
well in the Bank” Howard joined the Air Force Cadets. A meeting with
May Bob Ellis – a stock and station agent, led to a position at Weemala as a
2 May Blanche W. bookkeeper for Woollen Skin Buyers.
5 May Margot B. Howard joined the Royal Australian Navy, serving for three years as a
6 May Rhoda M. signalman on board HMAS Strahan, a Corvette minesweeper, during
12 May Marie B. which time he saw active service with the British Fleet. Howard and his
13 May Pixie G. wife were married for 34 years before she passed away. Howard
became General Manager Farmers Grazcos, stock and station agents,
13 May Shirley F. which later merged to become Dalgety Farmers, and eventually
24 May Alison G. Wesfarmers.
28 May Glory B. Howard has been chair of the Mosman RSL Memorial Hall Trust,
30 May Ann L. which, restored the HMAS Sydney (I) Mast to be a permanent and lit
military monument at Bradleys Head; Howard was awarded an OAM
for his work on the HMAS Sydney.