"HAPPY AT SEA"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 9, 12 January 1932, Page 8

"HAPPY AT SEA"

EX-IMMIGRATIONVMATRON

The tang of the sea agrees with Miss A. Dale; formerly immigration matron to the New Zealand. Government, and, as she confided, to a "Post" representative on her arrival .by the Tainui this morning, from England, ■'■ she is very happy when at sea.' Miss Dale is on a pleasure trip this timej and will return to England "by the Tainui. :

"This is my fifty-seventh trip to New Zealand, and, by-a coincidence,; it is fifty" years ago, to-day since I first arrived in the country by theY sailing ship Sukar. I suppose I have spent almost fifty years travelling around." Miss Dale said she had been doing New Zealand Government work for about 21 years, during which time she had been matron in charge of probably 2000 domestic servants who had come out to New Zealand. She is looting forward to meeting some of these girls while in the Dominion.' Miss Dale retired from the position of senior Government matron five years ago, and lives at Southsea, in the South of England. "I have settled there," she said, "and it suits me perfectly in England." " .:■■■•

Miss Dale was for a long period on the Shaw, Savill liner lonic,, on which she made thirty-five round .trips to NewZealand, and she has known some of the Tainui's officers for years. She said that the .present trip was mainly a health trip.