CHANGES AT HOME

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1936, Page 18

CHANGES AT HOME

NEWS FROM LADY DAY

Lady Day, writing to a rriend in Wellington, expresses the regret of Sir Cecil and herself at not returning to New Zealand where they have so many friends'.- She says that her doctor, Sir-P. Hailley, would not hear lof her returning and undergoing the fatigue of a "journey. She is leading I quite ari invalid life at present, but is i feeling better in consequence. She states that Sir Cecil has been busy, ancJMias enjoyed meeting New Zealanders- everywhere he has been. At the time of writing they were in London, and had been for six weeks while Sir Cecil Mad been doing some work for Lord Bledisloe. They were looking forward to a fortnight in the country, where everything was looking lovely in summer guise.' Near the Marble Arch Sir Cecil had met Mrs. Aitken and Mrs. Brice, who were reyelling;.Jn the beauty of England, and enjoying the flowers particularly. Lcaidohi^was' -very gay. - They had noticed many differences. Lady Day "states.that she;was asked at a luncheon party whai'-'Was,.-the-'special: thing she noticed in the general" apeparance of the streets after 25 years' absence. She.replied that it was.,the absence of intoxicated people, there did' not seem to>be~ any,-and she-thought it spoke -much for the- social: uplift -which had gone on during the period. She also noted that there seemed to be an absence of perceptible poverty whereever she had been, and that every boy and girl seemed to take a pride in their personal,, appearance in . whichever part'/ of the country they had visited.

They had met Sir Andrew and Lady Russell when dining with Lord and Lady Bledisloe, arid they had also met Sir Michael and Lady Myers, and Mr. Rodney Thompson had had lunch with them another day, and was looking fit and well.-. -; Captain Tweedie had also been to" see them before he left for" Scotland, and Mr. Little and Mr. Gavin Hamilton had dined with them another night.

Lady ,Day sent kind remembrances to her friends, with regrets that she will not.he.here to see them again, but she hopes jthat many will journey to England; ' particularly at Coronation time.