ENGLAND IN MAY.
I One of the Xew Zealand Army Xursing Sisters who is stationed on the hospital ship Braemar Castle, writing to a Wellington friend, tells her that she has seen "England in May," and England in May is a dream that will always remain. "It was a delight from beginning to end, and quite surpassed all my expectations," she writes. "Surely there can be no more beautiful thing in all the world than England in May and June. The country is at its very best now, the grass and trees are the most gorgeous green, and the hawthorn trees one mass of cither white or pink blossoms. One has always heard of English trees, but truly the half has never been told. We scarcely saw the shops, but that seemed hardly to matter when there was so much of historical interest to see. I am sure that no other five colonial girls ever loved the first glimpse of England as we did— •not more, anyway.' One lelt one's patriotism develop into quite a.different, thing after-having seen these wonderful old-.places-once we got into the reality and the centre of English history, and one felt' ivery proud ot one's English Wood,"-"
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 207, 30 August 1916, Page 8
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