N.Z. Became Home For Thai Girl
Leaving New Zealand was like leaving home for a young Thai student, Miss Putchrie Aramvitha, who returned to Thailand last week after completing a two-year course at a business college in Auckland.
She said she was reluctant to leave “her home” in Auckland, where she had been living with a family. “They were just like my own parents and looked after me and cared for me. I have made so many true friends in New Zealand I feel I am leaving part of my heart there,” said Miss Aramvitha. Before she left for Bangkok Miss Aramvitha spent • few
days in Wellington with friends whom she met in Thailand some years ago. They are Mr and Mrs F. W. Squires and their daughter, Caroline, who is a ledger machinist at the Bank of New Zealand. When the Squires family spent six weeks in Thailand visiting Mr Squires’s sister, Mrs Marjorie Vines, a missionary, the two girls became firm friends. Before Miss Aramvitha left last week the two girls made a pact to meet again in Thailand in 1969. By that time Miss Squires hopes to have saved enough money for another trip. The picture shows Miss Aramvitha (left) with Miss Squires.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31269, 16 January 1967, Page 2
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