ENGLANK’S “POWER AND POISE.”

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1929, Page 2

ENGLANK’S “POWER AND POISE.”

An Auckland lady has'received a letter from. Canada which throws a fine light on English trnding life, and incidentally English commercial honesty. Referring to a visit to Spain and England, a talented woman writer, Mrs Madge Mcßeth, of Toronto, whom the New Zealander met in Canada, said: “I left Spain with some regret to go to. England. After the pieturesqueness and the colour of Spain it seemed to me that any country would be dull. This was pot so. I had hardly arrived in London when I was gripped by a great excitement, the admiration of magnificent power and poise. There might be certain political unrest, which was inevitable in' connection with a general election, but the feeling in England was one of reassuring serenity, strength and benignity. I found honesty and integrity in all relations. If I asked in a shop, ‘Are these stocking all silk?’ I am told, ‘I am not sure they are all silk, madam, but -I think you will like them. A saleswoman would not say the article was silk unless she was sure. That was typical. I realised, as never before, why the ties of confidence are so l strong which bind the Dominions to the Motherland.”