"TERRIBLE .... BUT EXCITING."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 10

"TERRIBLE .... BUT EXCITING."

Auchlander Witnesses Californian Floods. "The (Whls in Los. Anjreles? They were terrible l>nt exciting. - ' said Miss Kobina < rami in. who returned to Auckland by the Monterey this inorninjr. '"It was certainly an experience that F would not, like t<> <ro through H<iain. I was travelling 1> v train to join the Monterey." she said, "and at one piace near Loiil' Kettch ji railway In idjje was entirely washed away. We were forced to leave our train ami crtws h rajfinjr river on vciv insecure planks to meet another train that was waiting on the other nide. It was «|llit *» a hectic journey," Miis Caudin. who lives, in Auckland. lias been in America for the last 10 months i<tiiclyiii<r inassajre «t one of the lamest medical clinics in the world. "They do wonderful work there." she explained, "and the whole collejre is very up-to-date. It is an excellent place for experimental work, fm- they are verv keen on new i<leas and work in new branches of medicine. The students there are very and are marvellous fun to work with. "I am jilad to he home." continued Miss Gaudin. "but 1 really was sorry to leave .America. The people there were so friendly and kind and the work was very interesting. Also they were jrood to me. as J was the first New Zealand •rirl to ever p«ss throuj-h the clinic, and they seemed interested in our yoiilnf count rv."