AN INTERESTING TRAVELLER

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 190, 10 May 1934, Page 5

AN INTERESTING TRAVELLER

Seeing New Zealand A very interesting traveller who arrived in Wellington by the Wanganella yesterday morning was Lady Lawford, who spent the day at the Midland Hotel. A beautiful woman, with white hair showing under a black pull-on felt hat, her 1 blue eyes looked with interest on the world from a young face, for which a huge shawl-collar of silver fox on her coat made a becoming frame. And though she has been up and down the seven seas, and visited country after country, never staying long even in London, where she makes her home, she still finds interest in the people she meets and in hearing of the things they do. “I meet so many delightful people,” she said. Lady Lawford was born in Melbourne, to where property interests bring her at fairly frequent intervals, and where her sister, Mrs. Pomeroy Greene, lives. “I was in New Zealand a year ago, and saw quite a lot of Auckland. I stayed two days. This year, when I had picked up my sister in Melbourne, we thought we would try another way back to England, and I rather wanted to see more of New Zealand; so we came by the Wanganella, and leave here this evening for Auckland to catch the Rangitata from there for London. The weather is against us, though. I would like to have seen something of Wellington. This recital of rapid progress over the world’s surface, left the listener rather breathless, but was evidently regarded as quite an everyday matter by the speaker. Lady Lawford loves Australia, she says, the only fault she has to find with it being the “early hours.” Early dinners, early theatres; and everything over early always seems a source of irritation to people who come south from' the world’s great northern centres.

Next year, when this delightful visitor comes down to Australia again, she may arrange to pay a real visit to New Zealand. ’ r