TOURING IN EUROPE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 193, 17 July 1939, Page 11

TOURING IN EUROPE.

IMPRESSIONS OF MANAWATU WOMEN.

Interesting letters have been received from Mrs A. P. Easton, of Foxton, and Mrs E. Dymock, of Palmerston North, who were members of the New Zealand delegation attending the triennial conference of the Associated Country Women of the World, in London. Mrs Easton described various entertainments and mentioned that on the Sunday following the writing of her letter she was going to the Old Vic Theatre with a small privileged party to be shown over the theatre and behind the scenes, etc. The day following she was to attend a roundtable conference on “The Rural Theatre and its Possibilities” taking the place of one of the official delegates and it was there Mrs Easton hoped to got information that would be helpful to the federation in its dramatic work.

Mrs Dymock described the Continental tour, before Ihe conference, when in spite of the language barrier, there had b°en an atmosphere of kindness and ho«p ! talitv wherever they went. Holland appealed to the travellers as a lovelv country with every little niece cultivated and fruit trees in f"ll b’oom. Here and in Germany they were entertained by women's organisations A tour in Switzerland !:°vo the happiest memories of the trio. Leaving Lucern° one morning e'irb- by bus the travellers were met at Morges bv nine members of the countrywomen's organisations and cscr”“ed {f! various ph’ces. At the next vilh'ge all the people turned out and a clergyman entertained the party to wine win'll w”s pure ernpe juice, and biscuits. An agricultural college was next visited, the principal and his wife doing the honours. The next (■“■ 11 wa= made at T ainaii" 0 where the vineyards wP ro visited. This meant n drive of IN) m les all round Lake Lucerne, with the snoweapned .Alps always in view—.a wonde r f'il smlit. The T.v»n eh community is called the wine p.'-stri'-t and tlm -arty "-as met bv the Frepch-Siv'ss ladies On n-nval at. the top of a steep hill th" New Zealanders were niet bv o'° Mayor of the prev'neo and more Indies wearing tlm national dre-s. and t-ken to the wine cellars, which were the omnia! cellars built bv the pionks in the twelfth century. t women’s gathering follow eil the visitors bein" confronted with a large banner in r d embroidered with “Welcome " Ge”Pva was the next step and (here the uartv enjoyed the hospitality nf ihe New Zealand High Commissioner in the Cafe League of Nation'- overlooking the lake and the A Ins. Mr Jordan made a speech of welcome. express'"g h’s nfeasure in seeing so manv New Zealand women so tar from 1101110 Par’s was the next place of call and from there Amiens and the battlefields were visited before returning to London and the great conference. | Stayin'!- at the same LoM m London as Afrs Easton "lid M"S Dymock were "Miss Rrm l( la R-11. of Palmerston South Mrs N At Burnett of Moodville 'Miss Mad-Wor, of AVellington, and Airs A. J. Will, of Rongotea.