“A BRAVE NEW WORLD.”

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 22 February 1937, Page 11

“A BRAVE NEW WORLD.”

LADY HAIG SAILS. “A brave new world” —in these four words Countess Haig, widow of FeildMarshal Earl Haig, the famous war leader, who died in January, 1928, summed up her impressions of New Zealand. Completing a brief tour of the Dominion, Lady Haig has sailed for Sydney. “What has most impressed me is the happiness and wonderful naturalness of New Zealand men, women and children. I admire very much tho way in which children are brought up to be healthy and natural,” Lady Haig said. She thought the Plunket Society in the Dominion was doing a wonderful work in teaching mothers how to take care of thmesclves and their babies, and, in order to demonstrate in Scotland and England the methods of the society in New Zealand, Lady Haig took with her a perambulator, a cot and a green net veil as examples of the Plunket Society’s work.

The young men and women of the Dominion were, in Lady Haig[s opinion, characterised by their naturalness. They were healthy, lnippy and independent and the young women used very little make-up. Their charm lay in being delightfully natural and dressing quietly and simply. Concerning her tour of the Dominion Lady Haig said she bad been everywhere possible in such a short time and hoped to return in time for the Anzac Day observance next year. She was particularly impressed by the work being done by New Zealand disabled soldiers and was taking back to England some of their products. During her tour she had taken many miniature moving picture films of the work of the soldiers, which she intended to show on her return to England. Lady Haig said she was delighted with her visit to Rotorua and particularly with the Whakarewarewa native village, where she found another Douglas Haig born at the time of one of the greatest victories of her late husband and named after him. A photograph of herself, signed “To Douglas Haig, from the wife of Douglas Haig, was sent to the boy. She was full of admiration for the Maori people and particularly for those who had fought in the Great War.