GLAD TO BE BACK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23058, 8 December 1936, Page 11

GLAD TO BE BACK

RETURN OF MRS FREER LITTLE TO SAY TO PRESSMEN <Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 7. Slim and neatly dressed in nigger brown, with a pale green.silk scarf around her neck. Mrs Freer seemed far from downhearted when seen on the arrival of the Awatea from Sydney to-day. She smiled a good deal, and talked with several of the passengers, but had little to say to the press representatives. When first spoken to she said she had nothing to say. adding: " I arti tired of you people." With that she was escorted downstairs by another woman, whose approach was accompanied with the advice: " Not a word, Mabel. Not a word, honey!" This woman gave the information that Mrs Freer had no immediate plans, but would be staying at Wellington for a while, and Mrs Freer smilingly said, looking up the stairway, " I might fly over to Australia." Mrs Freer's friend appears on the passenger list as Mrs A. H. Pura, and when she detached herself from Mrs Freer for a moment she announced herself as Madame Pura, of the Latin Cafe, Sydney. On deck afterwards Mrs Freer had more to say. She was glad to be back in New Zealand, and glad that at least one Government knew the meaning of British justice. According to passengers on the way across she attended church and generally entered into shipboard activities, dancing and playing deck games. She came down the gangway alone, and probably few knew ner. The photographers and movie cameramen worked quickly, and Mrs Freer took in the scene quickly and smiled and waved her hand.