ENGLISH VISITORS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21912, 22 September 1934, Page 18

ENGLISH VISITORS

SETTLING IN DOMINION "And what made you decide to settle in New Zealand ?" asked an interviewer of Lndv Clark-Hall, who, with her husband, 'Sir Robert Clark-Hall, arrived in Christchurch this week. Lady Clark-Hall, who, by the way, is both young and charming, considered the question. Finally she* gave her opinion: "We wanted the children to have a freer life than is possible in England," she said. " England is so —so full of people. And we heard, too, that the education in this part of the world was good." The other morning Lady Clark-Hall was busy selecting schools and New Zealand education for her three children, two boys and a girl. So far her impressions of New Zealand are most favourable, " Though there do not seem to be many trees in Wellington. r Jhis is better." She confesses to having made one bad slip in Wellington. She admired the gorse! She did not know what a mistake this was until sonieono told her. u Gorso in England grows politely and discreetly on commons. It doesn't spread like yours does,'' she said. Already she has assimilated something of the' New Zealand point of view. Lady Clark-Hall before her marriage was Miss Lillian Lockhart, daughter of Colonel R. Elliott Lockhart, of Loclierbie. She has travelled widely, but for some time has made her home, with her husband, near Portsmouth, England. •