VISITING THE DOMINION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 February 1926, Page 4

VISITING THE DOMINION.

A LADY FROM NATAL. IMPRESSIONS OF THE COUNTRY. A visitor to Hawera and district for some weeks has been Miss M. Cresswell, of Pietermaritzburg, Natal (South Africa), instructress in. home science under the South African Department of Education. Miss Cresswell has been the guest of her sister. Mrs T. Wilson, of Ararata. Since she has been in the Dominion she has seen some of the natural beauties of New Zealand, among them Waitomo Caves, Rotorua, and Mount Egmont. She had the good fortune, too, to see Milford Sound, for the steamer on which she came to New Zealand called in at that beautiful fiord.

Miss Cresswell leaves the Dominion absolutely charmed with all she saw, and she is convinced that New Zealand should be better known abroad, and said that over in South Africa the people generally had little knowledge of the many natural beauties of scenery available. Indeed, she said she thought there were few countries offering more attractions to visitors.

Referring to educational matters in South Africa, Miss Cresswell said that there was a strong progressive spirit shown by the authorities, and that education was certainly making rapid strides. '* -

11l politics she said that they were in the unfortunate position of having three parties, no one of which had a workable majority, ■ and it was only the coalition of -Labour with the Nationalists that was responsible for the defeat of 'General Smuts, but few expected he would be so badly beaten when he went to the country. Miss Cresswell, though having her home in Pietermaritzburg, travels very widely all over the Union, and consequently knows the whole of South Africa pretty well. She is very keen on Natal, and considers there is a great future for that part. She has enjoyed her visit to New Zealand very much, and will be keen to tell her friends over the ocean of all the many and varied attractions the Dominion holds for visitors. She left for the South by train yesterday.