MISS BATTEN RESUMES HER TOUR

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 46, 18 November 1936, Page 12

MISS BATTEN RESUMES HER TOUR

Trout for Mayor of Dunedin CHANCE MEETING WITH LOVELOCK ON ROAD Dominion Special Service Dunedin, November 17. Miss Jean Batten arrived at Dunedin this afternoon from Queenstown with a present of a trout for the mayor, the Rev. E. T. Cox. She was fishing from a launch a‘ T.ake Wakatipu on Monday afternoon, and on that occasion caught her first trout, which was one of several fish hauled on board. She kept the first one for the purpose of presenting it to the mayor on her arrival al Dunedin. Miss Batten said she' was feeling much better after her holiday at the Franz Josef Glacier and Queenstown. She wtis now much improved in health and was glad to be able to resume her tour of the Dominion.

Speaking to a reporter, Miss Batten recounted an unusual experience she had when motoring to Dunedin from Queenstown to-day. Shortly after leaving Roxburgh she thought she recognised one of the occupants of a cattravelling in the opposite direction, and had her car stopped. The other car stopped also, and out stepped another famous New Zealander in the person of J. E. Lovelock. “The last time I met Lovelock was ■it a banquet: in London shortly before tie left to lake part: in the Olympic Garnets at Berlin.” Miss Batten said, “and it was curious that, our next meeting should take place at. a lonely spot in the Central Otago countryside.”