MOROCCO

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23353, 12 June 1941, Page 2

MOROCCO

ADDRESS TO TRAVEL CLUB Mrs Richard Hudson, president, and Miss Kathleen Greenslade, secretary, of the Dunedin Travel Club, and Mrs Tolley, a. member of the Wellington Travel Club, were honoured guests at the Canterbury (N.Z.) Travel Club’s morning reception held at Ballantynes yesterday. Other specially invited guests were Mrs K. Humphries (London), formerly Miss Lorna Broadway of Christchurch, Miss Lazarus, who recently returned to Christchurch from England, Mrs Fred Butler (Auckland), Miss J. Dobson (Nelson), Miss Betty Page (Ashpqrton), and Miss Norma Leslie (Timaru). The president Sir Joseph Ward, presided, and the hostesses were Mrs H. H. Dobie and Mrs W. Machin. Songs were sung, by Mrs Clarice Shaw, for whom Mrs W. E. Olds was accompanist. The speaker was Miss St. Paul, of London, who is paying her second visit to New Zealand- She gave a viyid account of a tour she had made through Moroccb, an experience which she considers well worth while, although it is hot a rest cure, and the sights and scenes, she said, were 'a mixture of Biblical pictures and a magnificent stage production. She landed at Tangier and soon found that Arabic French is more difficult than French FrenchIn this cosmopolitan town she saw Arabs, French, Moors, negroes. Bedouins and members of the Foreign Legion, who, she was disappointed to find, were not at all romantic looking; she,saw straight white buildings with few windows a#d flat roofs, on which the ■women to%k the air after dark when they could not be seen, and in the neighbouring agricultural • districts she saw an ox yoked to an ass and a camel to a donkey. Miss St,., Paul amusingly described not too .comfortable journeys to Meknes, to Marrakesh, beside the snow-clad Atlas mountains, to Fez, the capital and intellectual centre of Moroqco, and to Cagablgpca, an important pleasant town withijgood shops and wide - boulevards, ISlahted with trgps. .