QUIET OF N.Z. CITIES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28938, 4 July 1959, Page 2

QUIET OF N.Z. CITIES

Comparison Paris e Mrs P. A*b*®soar fc>ds the traa.- ' qtsslity ef New Zeslausd cities a 1 great risaege from Paris. Th* ' ereti tesser of life bere was very j prsetom. s&e said. There w« ’ tisEe to do mar-T tfeings that the wmpelfißg bertj* of Partsia® Lf* cisrsesraged. Wltfa £«r tusterMl wfeo is w. a ' prist-gradaate rtSMslarrttip, Mrs A&etMScar ti spending two years ; m ?iew Zealard. with r.x noaatfef at each ®f the fcwr uasive’rtty -centres. Daring the tong vaca- ■ tton th* eougtl* hipes to visit 'the Frer.-rfa jiesaesai-'i.ia in the Pacific. Travelling is most alhurmg to Mrs Abenswur. She is familiar with her own. coortry and nsotst 'of ■ free Europe. WM* at stho©! .she jjent seme tisne in England ■jos a rtealert exchange plan, and s lived for a year in Sceiaasd where rher husband was studying. From aer feome in Paris sh* often used «to go to Austria m the winter ?fcr «ki-feg holidays Since arriving in New Zealand th® Abensoun have seen Auckland and Wellington, lived five . months to Dunedin and visited ■ Invercargill and Queenstown. While to Christchurch they hope -to enjoy sc-me ski-tog parties. Parisian Kindergartens Eefvre her marriage Mrs - Acensour was a kindergarten teacher French kindergartens are a private enterprise and there ■is keen com petition between them and nursery schools. Both eater tor children between the ages of tour and six. and are usually to j closely populated area* where there is little space for children ito play at home.. French kindergarten teachers practised a mixed system combining the Montessori and de Croly methods, said Mrs Abensour. The Montessori sys- ■ tem is regarded as doctrinaire j compared with the de Croly which is more human and adaptable. i Food available to New Zealand |is very good, thinks Mrs Aben- ■ sour. particularly the steak New Zealand wines she considered .pleasant even compared with the I French. i Mrs Abensour has not yet become, fluent in English and spoke through the kind offices of two interpreters. Pr.ofessor R. T ar ri CZ Q *T’vr%ttrv