Lady Richards On Motherhood
. A visitor to Auckland this week has been Lady Richards, the young wife of tlie Governor-designate of Fiji, who, with her husband and family, is travelling to Fiji. She stated at Perth that she believes motherhood is of first importance in a woman’s career. She herself is a most conscientious and .successful mother, for she has brought up three
children from babyhood in tropical countries, including Gambia, in Africa, and North Borneo, where her husband has held vice-regal appointments. Hitherto she has had Chinese amahs as nurses for her two elder children, Diana, aged eight, and Fraser, aged .six. Lady Richards was born in Singapore and spent much of her girlhood in Penang, where she was in charge of Girl Guide troops of Chinese and Eurasian girls. She said that Eurasians in Penang did not suffer for their mixed racial parentage, as they had their own distinct colony and interests
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 47, 19 November 1936, Page 6
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