Tony Everett’s query regarding the third jewel-themed room (after Sapphire and Emerald) at the Australia Hotel (C8) is an entanglement. Clytie Williams of Randwick remembers her dad, key figure Bill Cullip, running front-of-house operations in the late1930s. “I recall having lunch there as a very little girl of about five in the Diamond Room, the third jewel-themed room your reader was looking for. I remember feeling very grown-up being in such a splendid chandelier-encased, white table-clothed and silver-laden-table room and certainly learned my early table manners there!” A deep dive on the establishment could not uncover a Diamond Room, but a major third room is listed by a number of sources as the Amethyst Room. Clytie?
Further complicating things is Steven Maher of Forster: “In response to the query about the third jewel-themed room at the Australia Hotel, I celebrated my 18th birthday in 1966 in the Jade Room at that establishment. The resident singer was Michael Klentos. I requested he sing More from the 1962 movie Mondo Cane, and he did. Memories are made of this. Gone are the days.” In this case, the Jade Room did exist, but did so after a renovation. Room for any more?
“Recently on radio, I heard an independent MLA suggest that ‘Sydney needs more articulate buses’,” notes Colin Taylor Evans of Lane Cove. “Well said!”
As far as ginger nut biscuits (C8) go, “the results are in,” according to Gregory Nell of Tamworth: “There are 11 more ginger nuts in a Queensland variety packet than there are in a NSW variety packet of the same net weight. That would possibly make purchasing the Queensland better value, unless one ends up dunking two Queensland variety biscuits into one’s cup of tea (because they’re thinner) for every one NSW variety biscuit. So endeth the investigation.”
Lance Dover of Pretty Beach writes: “Whilst my late mother was serving at the confectionery counter of David Jones (C8), Barrack and George Street store, laughter rang out from the workroom where they made up bags of DJ’s trademark ‘Mary Pumpkin’ sweets. The reason? One of the ladies’ dentures had fallen into the bin of hundreds and thousands. I forget if she told us whether the bin was discarded or not!”
“I wish to let everyone know about the Thai restaurant attached to the Select Inn at Rydalmere known as ‘Thaiger Wood’,” declares Greg Leisner of Newtown. “Fore!”
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