A NOTED VISITOR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 8

A NOTED VISITOR.

Next week Palmerston North will welcome a noted visitor in Miss Kathleen Courtney, who has come to New Zealand at the invitation of the National Y.W.C.A. to give lectures and to take study groups in the cities and leading provincial centres. Miss Courtney holds high rank among the women of the world whose purpose is not only to ennoble the life of their own country, but to create that wider feeling of goodwill that will bring nations into amity anti peace. An accomplished speaker and student of international affairs, she brings to her New Zealand audiences a survey of world problems and a message that must prove of absorbing interest to all who hear her. One strongly imbued with the desire to see world peace, Miss Courtney knows well the horrors of war from her work among the Serbian refugees, in Vienna, Poland, and Greece when the disastrous rout of the Greek forces at Smyrna brought a million refugees from Anatolia, precipitating one of the greatest of post-war problems at the time and leading to an outstanding achievement in their rehabilitation. A member of the National Executive of the League of Nations Union and of several peace societies, Miss Courtney has travelled widely, and her visit to Palmerston North is a welcome opportunity to hear a gifted personality speak not only in the cause of peace but on kindred subjects.