N.Z. GIFT RECALLS MEMORIES OF DOMINION TO MRS ROOSEVELT

Evening Star, Issue 26091, 3 May 1947, Page 6

N.Z. GIFT RECALLS MEMORIES OF DOMINION TO MRS ROOSEVELT

(Rec. 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 2. Mi’s Eleanor 'Roosevelt in her daily column in the ‘ World Telegram ’ reports the receipt from Sir Carl Berendsen of a most beautiful cabinet made of a variety of New Zealand woods by disabled veterans of New Zealand. The cabinet contains volumes of photographs and clippings relating to her visit to New Zealand, also a volume of clippings of matter published at the time of her husband’s death. Mrs Roosevelt said the photographs revived memories of New Zealand’s Very beautiful countryside, and “how courageous and independent her people are and how well her men and women stood up under the sacrifices of war.” Remarking that there was little great wealth in New Zealand so far -as she could see, she added that there was no great poverty either. 1 She was amused when it was pointed out that New Zealand trout transplanted from the United States had thrived so wonderfully they were now many times larger than those in their original habitat. After paying tribute to New Zealand’s warm hospitality to American servicemen Mrs Roosevelt thanked Mr Peter Fraser for his kind thought in sending the gift, which will be placed in the Roosevelt Memorial Library at Hyde Park.