MISS JEAN BATTEN
WAIRAKEI HOLIDAY VISIT TO AUSTRALIA Fit and well after a short holiday at Wairakei Miss Jean Batten returned to Auckland yesterday afternoon. She intends to test her Percival Gull some time to-day, and will leave by the Awatea to-morrow afternoon for Sydney, where she will meet her mother, who has travelled out from England.
While at Wairakei Miss Batten received from the Arawa tribe gifts of a greenstone pendant and a heart of kauri gum enclosing a fern leaf. The presentation was made on behalf of the tribe by Mr. H. Tai Mitchell. Miss Batten is a rangitane of the Arawas, an honour conferred upon her by the late Mita Taupopoki after her last flight from England to Australia, and a wish has been expressed that she should be received by the tribe in a manner befitting her rank. This reception will be held at Christmas-time, when Miss Batten will spend a holiday at Kotorua with her parents.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22596, 8 December 1936, Page 11
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161MISS JEAN BATTEN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22596, 8 December 1936, Page 11
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