No Regrets At Changed Plans

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31161, 10 September 1966, Page 2

No Regrets At Changed Plans

Although her bestlaid plans have gone astray, Mrs Liselotte North has no regrets. Marriage to a New Zealand Baptist minister has brought her far from the medical centre she hoped to establish in Ethiopia.

Yesterday she arrived In Christchurch with her husband, the Rev. J. North, who is the new minister of the Bryndwr Baptist Church. Swiss-born Mrs North, who Is a medical technician, planned to establish the centre in Ethiopia with the help of a colleague. She left her laboratory job in Zurich and took a course to improve her English while her friend went ahead to survey the ground.

But his news on return was disappointing and the plan was abandoned.

Shortly afterwards she met her future husband who then was doing post-graduate stu-

dies at a Baptist theological seminary'.

Travelling, music and films are Mrs North's spare-time pursuits. “Travel comes naturally to the Swiss, because crossing borders is usually just a case of producing an identification card,” she said. Mrs North has pleasant i memories of two months spent ■ living in a kibbutz community I development in Israel where I she joined community activii ties.

"People gathered together to play music in the evenings and once a week there

was a film which was shown in the open air,” she said. “I saw a variety of films there —American, Russian, English and even a Swiss film.” American .films have no particular appeal for her. “They depict an unrealistic slice of life where everyone is very, very rich. I find this false,” she said. “French films depict the lives of ordinary people in ordinary situations. Russian films are good too—they are never frivolous and often tragic, but that is probably life as they know it.”