PLEASANT TRAVEL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 19

PLEASANT TRAVEL

Many people will remember pleasantly Corritesse de ' Vijine-Hautmont (Vinia de Loitte), of Sydney. She writes to a friend in .Wellington of her recent travels, and says: "I can't pass through this lovely land of yours without a word of greeting. It is lovely but it seems odd to have to take again to 'woollies' after three summers. I had a slimmer in Australia, and last summer in Europe, and am now on my way back to another Australian one. I intend to leave again.in April for Europe so the near future holds no' winter for me. My travel-de-luxe (arranged by the Comtesse)), has been a marvellous one in every respect, and the finale, a pleasure tour through Canada and U.S.A. with no responsibility except to enjoy myself in all the luxury of the first class in the very wonderful network of the C.P.R. is the 'almond icing' on the cake. We have been to Colombo, Cairo, Greece, Malta, Italy, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, France, England—and not even a rumour of war until we reached the 'dear Homeland.' Courtesy and hospitality were showered upon us everywhere. It was really a glorious trip, and I did not think it possible to have carried out all the arrangements so perfectly. I am going back to Sydney with the certainty of gathering another party for a similar tour. I must mention one unforgettable day in the Austrian Tyrol, where we gathered the deep blue gentians amidst the snow and sunshine. There were just millions of flowers. Give my greetings to all my friends and say that I still keep to my slogan, 'New Zealand is the loveliest country in the world.'"

MAORIS "QUITE CHARMING"

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, September 26. The speech-making expected of her in New Zealand and Australia was almost as strenuous as playing and umpiring, said Miss Joan Warwick, manager and umpire of the English women's hockey team which recently toured the two Dominions. Besides umpiring every match, she made over fifty speeches and gave thirteen broadcast talks. Miss Warwick stated that the hockey in New Zealand and Australia was not so finished as that in England but it was more vigorous. It was not play- \ ed on such good grounds. One of the most delightful experiences was the visit of Maori women, who were quite charming. Outside the main object of the tour, Miss Warwick said the public people she met seemed most interested in her county council work, and one of her mpst instructive experiences was a visit to one of their big mental homes, with a wonderful villa system.