THE PRINCESS HELENA VICTORIA

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 81, 2 October 1924, Page 14

THE PRINCESS HELENA VICTORIA

THE GUEST OF NEW ZEALAND

LETTERS OP APPRECIATION.

(FROM ODR OTVN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 30th July.

After Princess Helena Victoria had spent New Zealand Day at the British Empire Exhibition as the guest of the Dominion women, Lady Allen expressed a wish in a letter that Her Highness should convey to the Queen the thanks of the women of New Zealand for Her Majesty's kind message. "Many thanks for your letter," the Princess has written in reply. "I wrote at once last night on my return from Wembloy and conveyed your and the women of New Zealand's thanks to tho Queen. I also gave her a full description of our day, which I know will interest her so much. May I also thank you on my own behalf for all your kindnoss to me yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed all the proceedings, and am so glad I was able to be present."

Lady Liverpool, who keeps up her interest in New Zealand, has also written to Lady Allen a letter of thanks, in which she says she enjoyed every minute of the day.

Lady Galway (chairman of the Women's Section of the British Empire Exhibition) has written to Lady Allen to express hor appreciation of the New Zealand Day effort and to congratulate all concerned on the result.

Sir James Allen is intensely pleased with the way in which New Zealand inaugurated tho Women's Week. "We made tho thing go," he said. "Now Zoaland is a small country, but its people stand by one another, they stick together and help to make such functions as this a success. The members of Lady's Allen's Committee and the ether visitors who helped to make New Zealand Day a success deserve very great praise for their efforts. One must also add a word of praise and thanks to the Maoris who offered their services to entertain the visitors."

A BRILLLANT SUCCESS.

From Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon (International Cpuncil of Women), Lady Allen has in the last day or two received a very gratifying appreciation of New Zealand's part in the Women's Week, which amply bears out tho High Commissioner's contention that tho Dominion gave a good lead.

"At the close of the Women's Week," writes Mrs. Gordon, "my mind goes back with special gratitude to the kind way in which you received my first suggestion. Mrs. Strachey, Mrs. Murray, and I were,all so cheered when we first met your committee, and felt all the goodwill and energy that wero in their midst. We felt sure the New Zealand Day would go well, and often we congratulated ourselves on the good start it would give to the Women's Week when the time came. Undoubtedly, you and your committee and speakers "scored a brilliant success, and made the New Zealand Day a real Empire hit. Something all of us women will rememberwith joy and elation for the rest of our days.- 1 do th.-nik you all very, very much. Hiss Myers wrote to thank niy subcommittee, but all we did was to set the ball rolling! Your committee made the "Day" the success it. was from beginning- to end. I feel sure tho public who attended were more than pleased, and that they were imbued . with something of the spell and charm of the remote and lovely Dominion Islands of which they heard. All have expressed themselves about the conference and the concert in terms of unstinted praise to mo, and I felt I must pass on their message to you and your fellow-workers with my love and sincere fellowship." j Lady Allen herself writes to me: "To work for our country in co-operation with the New Zealand Day Committee has been a great honour aad pleasure , to me also."-