MISS MAUDE ROYDEN RETURNS TO LONDON

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6810, 14 January 1929, Page 7

MISS MAUDE ROYDEN RETURNS TO LONDON

IMPRESSIONS OF ANTIPODES “TERRIBLE ROW OVER A FEW ■ CIGARETTES.” Unitod Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday 1 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 13 Miss Maude Royden has arrived at London from her world tour. She was greeted at Victoria station by scores of admirers and bouquets. She was quite prepared for questions anent cigarette smoking According to the News Agency, she confessed to a certain amount of criticism in Australia. “In fact, I could not conceive that a few cigarettes could create such a terrible row,” she declared. On being asked if she would smoke one now. that she was back in a free country, she replied she refused to be bullied in. America or Australia all the time 3he was there. She described Australia as a rough and ready country, even in tho cities, but the Australians were wonderfully hospitablo to her, though a good deal scandalised at the idea of her preaching in a cathedral,” whiqh she did at Adelaide. “This also caused such a sensation when I preached at the cathedral at Christchurch the crowd was positively dangerous,” she said. Australia was a little under the impression that England was sending out her duds or throw-outs, who had been living on tbe dole. She wished tho word “dole” could be abolished. It embittered people, besides giving a wrong impression. Miss Royden’s views were moro moderately expressed in the Observer. She stressed the livo interest of Australia in international ' affairs. She found them tremendously keen on tho work of the League of Nations, and sho urged speakers going thither to choose that kind of subject. She praised the baby clinics and the reduction of infant mortality. Nothing was lacking at her reception at Adelaide once tho ice was broken. The biggest crowd was at Christchurch.