Wife Of Talks Officer Has Had Varied Life

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29871, 11 July 1962, Page 2

Wife Of Talks Officer Has Had Varied Life

After spending much of her life “shuttling back and forth” between the Congo, South Africa and Belgium, Mrs Nicole Cheeseright, the young wife of the new talks officer at 3YA, has come to New Zealand glad to “settle down for a bit.” A graduate in modem history from Oxford University, Mr Paul Cheeseright arrived in New Zealand with his wife last December under the New Zealand Government immigration scheme, and after working in Wellington for six months took up his position with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.

In her Christchurch flat yesterday. Brussels-born Mrs Cheeseright talked about her unusually varied life, which has involved herself, parents and one brother in almost constant change since before the war.

After returning to her homeland some years ago M-s Cheeseright spent three years in training and work as a dietitian in nearby Ghent and continued this work in Britain and during the earlier part of this year in Wellington.

"At the beginning of the war, my father, who was an officer in the army, took us to South Africa by way of the Congo. There we stayed while he returned to Europe to fight and I went to an English school in Cape Town.’’ she said. "After the war we returned home to Belgium for a time and then in 1947 went to the Congo. There I went to a mixed school in Leopoldville. where the teaching was done in both the French and Flemish languages. ‘Then some years later we, went back to Belgium and I went to a high school there. I suppose in all we spent about eight years in the Congo and South Africa ” Speaking of her own work in dietetics Mrs Cheeserghtj said she had been most inter-1

ested to see something of New Zealand methods in this field. After spending four months working at the Wellington Hospital, she had discovered one big difference. “At home I think we seem to insist more on the therapeutic side of dietetics, whereas here you are perhaps more trained on the catering side,” she said. However, basically the

science was little different in all countries and was essentially on the same principles, although necessarily adapted to varying food patterns. Asked about her Impressions of New Zealand, Mrs Cheeseright said: “It is quite amazing to us to see the amount of music, ballet and theatrical entertainment offered to you here. Since we arrived there seem to have been such a lot of good companies coming to New Zealand.

“We can’t help but be impressed with the real friendliness and naturalness of the people here and it is not just a surface interest but something really well meant,” she said.