AUTHOR’S VISIT TO ASHBURTON

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29383, 9 December 1960, Page 19

AUTHOR’S VISIT TO ASHBURTON

Own Book First Seen In Public Library

A book on the Norwegian customs and life, “Land of the Bog Cotton,” will take pride of place on the shelves at the Ashburton Public Library, for the author, Mr Russell Sutherland, j,s the brother of the senior librarian, Mrs T. M. McArtney.

*. There were a series of coincidences when the book made its first appearance in Ashburton yesterday morning. Firstly, it arrived at a time when the author happened to be in the town on holiday, and, secondly, he had not seen the book in its finished form until he was shown it on the library shelf ’by his sister.

Mr Sutherland wrote the book while on a two yeafs’ working holiday in Norway. In it he gives his impressions on the country and the people, and touches on all aspects of the Norwegian way of life.

Educated at the Caversham and King’s High Schools in Dunedin. Mr Sutherland later attended the University of Otago, where he took a degree in dentistry. In 1953, he went overseas and spent several months in England before going north to Norway, where he worked as a dentist with the Norwegian Health Department He arrived back in New Zealand in 1958.

The book was . published recently and copies arrived in New Zealand within the last few days. Mr Sutherland is at present working on another book. “Not travel, but fiction this time,” he said yesterday.