LADY APSLEY HURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 305, 26 December 1930, Page 7

LADY APSLEY HURT.

One of " The Amateur Settlers •**

In Australia.

THROWN WHILE HUNTING.

LONDON, December 25,

While Lady Apsley was hunting on Tuesday 'with fiarl Bathurst's hounds in Gloucestershire, she was: thrown 'from her horse and-her spine-was dislocated.' Her condition is serious.'

The horse put its foot into a rabbit hole and fell and rolled on its rider. ~.

. Newfiof the unfortunate accident -to Lady Apsley recalls an interesting adventure, in which she co-operated with her husband about five years ago. First Lord Apsley obtained papers Under an assumed name afi an emigrant to Australia, and later Lady Apsley joined him in ah ; ex-r periment as immigrant settlers in West Australia. For two years Lord Apsley had been Parliamentary private secretary in the, Overseas Trade Department, and he had determined to obtain at first hand knowledge of the actual conditions which emigrants and settlers had to undergo; The experiment of breaking in new land in West Australia was for a period of three months, and on their return to England Loi'd and Lady Apsley outlined their experiences in a valuable book entitled "The Amateur Settlers." Before her marriage in 1&24, Lady Apsley was Miss Viola Meeking, daughter of the late Captain Bertram Meekihg, of the 10th Hussars.