LONDON GUIDE FOR STUDENTS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28979, 21 August 1959, Page 2

LONDON GUIDE FOR STUDENTS

Editor Formerly

In N.Z.

LONDON. Visitors to London will be indebted to vivacious Gillian Shadbolt, aged 30. formerly a journalist in New Zealand, who is editor of a lively and provocative guide to the British capital. This guide, produced for the National Union of Students, will be issued free to 10.000 first-year students arriving in London from other parts of the United Kingdom and overseas in the autumn. But with its advice on the best values in accommodation, theatre seats, restaurant, coffee bars and free entertainment, it will probably gain a wider deserved readership. An Australian, Mrs Shadbolt is the first publicity officer appointed by the National Union of Students which has 124.000 members and this is the second of its annual guides she has produced. She also edits the union’s monthly newspaper and booklets on such subjects as choosing a career and student debating. After starting her career as a journalist on the Sydney “Sun," Mrs Shadbolt, then Gillian Heming. went to New Zealand where she worked for four years on the Wellington “Evening Post” and met her husband, a writer from Auckland. Maurice Shadbolt, winner of one of the literary awards of the New Zealand magazine “Landfall,” spends his time writing in their Chelsea flat. His first book —a collection of short stories entitled “The New Zealanders"— will be brought out in the autumn by the British publishers, Victor Gollancz.