NEWCOMER TO NEW ZEALAND
MADAME CANSOU A FLUENT LINGUIST Madame Cansou,-' the vivacious young wife of the newly-appointed diplomatic secretary of the French Legation, who has arrived by the Rimutaka to join her husband in Wellington, is a gifted linguist. She was educated at schools in South Africa and England and at finishing schools in Switzerland and Germany, and among the languages she speaks fluently are her own. French, English, German and Afrikaans.
During the war Madame Cansou )ut her linguistic ability to good ise as an interpreter for the Free French Navy authorities in South Vfrica and as a postal official for ted Cross messages received and lispatched to and from the French :olonies and unoccupied France. Madame Cansou has one small ink with New Zealand. During her chooldays in Natal she was taught )y a mistress from Napier, Miss Vshton-Warner. It was then she leard of all the beauty spots of the Dominion, especially of Rotorua dales of which fascinated all the )upils), which she hopes to visit.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14570, 14 January 1948, Page 5
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