A TRAVELLED VISITOR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 24

A TRAVELLED VISITOR

WALKING TOUR IN INDIA PICTURESQUE LADAKH A widely-travelled visitor to Auckland, by the Monterey, was Mrs. George G. Howard, wife of the United States Trade Commissioner in Sydney, who is travelling to Australia to rejoin her husband after a serious illness. Mrs. Howard, whose former homo was in New York, lias travelled considerably on the Continent as well as being for two years in Japan, three years in the Phillipines, lour years in China, and seven years in India. Mrs. Howard is personally acquainted with a number of well-known authors and journalists in the United States, and has met several famous personalities in the world to-day. Most of Mrs. Howard's stay in India was spent in Calcutta and it was there that she made the acquaintance of manv Indian women, whom she described as particularly charming and cultured. They combined very successfully their own ideas with those of modern education.

While most of Mrs. Howard's time in India was spent in the modern and progressive atmosphere of the cities, she found the country in the interior very grand and picturesque. On one occasion she and her husband, accompanied by a friend irom Shanghai, spent six weeks travelling on foot, and walking on an average 20 miles a day. They were accompanied by a fully equip|)ed baggage train of porters and ponies and journeyed as far as the Ladakh Mountains, in Ladakh, a province of Kashmir, in North-west India. The country, apart from the valleys, was very rocky and barren, but unsurpassed in grandeur, while the lamaseries were very picturesque and beautifully built.