NEWS OF NOVELIST

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 69, 23 March 1938, Page 17

NEWS OF NOVELIST

MISS MORTON IN ENGLAND

■" Miss Elsie Morton, the New Zealand novelist, writes that she is settling for a time in England, after a tour of the Continent, which included a sojourn on.a tulip farm in Holland, and a trip' to Norway, states the "Sydney Morning Herald."

Whilst on a tour of Wales, Miss Morton met Dame Margaret and Miss Megan Lloyd George, and spent a delightful afternoon in their home. A weekend at Lydney, the homo of Lord and Lady Bledisloe (the former. Gover-nor-General of New . Zealand) found her host and hostess still tremendously interested in Dominion affairs. Lady Bledisloe showed with pride a New Zealand garden, in which she had succeeded in getting>New Zealand flowers to bloom. While traversing the Wye Valley, Miss Morton met and lunched with Flora KliCkman, the English writer, noted amongst other works for her flower patch books,

In London Miss Morton gave a travel talk afethe Forum Club, illustrated with more than one hundred slides, and Australia as well as New Zealand was included in "Down Under to the Lands of Sunshine." An address at the Women's Conservative Club at Pinner, near Harrow, was another lecture given by the New Zealand writer.

Devotees tit the tailored suit would like the spectator sports one which has neither collar nor revers, two high-set pockets, and the jacket "zips" from neckline to hipline.