THIS WEATHER!

Evening Star, Issue 22596, 13 March 1937, Page 16

THIS WEATHER!

RETURN TO DISILLUSIONMENT CLIMATE PRAISED IN ENGLAND “ I’m disillusioned!” said a depressed Dunedin resident a week after returning to hia home following a two years’ stay in Great Britain. “About England, or about New Zealand, as you find it under the Labour Government?” the reporter inquired. “About our weather,” he replied. “Lord Bledisloe never tires of telling people how he cannot understand them leaving New_ Zealand’s sunny clime for the weather in England. The late Lord Jellicoe was also in the habit of saying that. I heard Lord Bledisloe make the remark several times, and, becoming curious, I asked him if he were really serious. ‘ Yes,’ the former GovernorGeneral replied, ‘ I am sincere in every word I say.’ ” The Dunedin man said he almost came to believe that New Zealand was a land of sunshine, but he had been disillusioned since his return. No visitor who has experienced the “ summer ” weather of the past week could carry away a good impression of New Zealand’s climate. The tourist said that Lord Bledisloe was a wonderful publicity agent for New Zealand, to which, he had told him, he and Lady Bledisloe would gladly return to spend the rest of their lives if they were not tied to England.